New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 11Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Thomas Hood, Theodore Edward Hook, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth E. W. Allen, 1819 |
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... genius ; since , with the power of securing to himself the admi- ration of all classes of readers , he must needs possess qualifications of no ordi- nary description : and though it is a notorious fact , that writers of very trifling ...
... genius ; since , with the power of securing to himself the admi- ration of all classes of readers , he must needs possess qualifications of no ordi- nary description : and though it is a notorious fact , that writers of very trifling ...
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... genius . He sought to fix upon some theme that would afford ample scope for the display of his powers , and he has succeeded to a miracle ; for it may be affirmed , with truth , that there are no heroes , in the whole compass of poetry ...
... genius . He sought to fix upon some theme that would afford ample scope for the display of his powers , and he has succeeded to a miracle ; for it may be affirmed , with truth , that there are no heroes , in the whole compass of poetry ...
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... genius of the GREAT UNKNOWN might weave from our slight materials an his- torical story , not less illustrative of the character of the Gael than the Tales of My Landlord are descriptive of the southern Scots . But to return to the ...
... genius of the GREAT UNKNOWN might weave from our slight materials an his- torical story , not less illustrative of the character of the Gael than the Tales of My Landlord are descriptive of the southern Scots . But to return to the ...
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... genius , but keeps it steady to one purpose , and incessantly em- ployed in a prescribed direction . Here- by , emulation , the noble spring of exer tion , is equitably excited , and kept up without jealousy . Competition is free ; the ...
... genius , but keeps it steady to one purpose , and incessantly em- ployed in a prescribed direction . Here- by , emulation , the noble spring of exer tion , is equitably excited , and kept up without jealousy . Competition is free ; the ...
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... genius enough , he is as slippery as an eel , and as unsafe as a cullender . Many were the schemes which this extraor- dinary book suggested to my imagina- tion , but all of them fleeted away as fast as they arose , like unto a dream ...
... genius enough , he is as slippery as an eel , and as unsafe as a cullender . Many were the schemes which this extraor- dinary book suggested to my imagina- tion , but all of them fleeted away as fast as they arose , like unto a dream ...
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Page 156 - Duchess, with all the household, gentlemen and gentlewomen, were hunting in the park. I found her in her chamber reading...
Page 194 - The sky is changed! - and such a change! Oh night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder! Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue, And Jura answers, through her misty shroud, Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud!
Page 55 - I waked one morning, in the beginning of last June, from a dream, of which, all I could recover was, that I had thought myself in an ancient castle (a very natural dream for a head filled like mine with Gothic story), and that on the uppermost banister of a great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armour.
Page 194 - Though in their souls, which thus each other thwarted, Love was the very root of the fond rage Which blighted their life's bloom, and then departed: Itself expired, but leaving them an age Of years all winters, — war within themselves to wage.
Page 243 - ... sovereignty among the Eastern nations, and are still retained as such in Abyssinia ; the Achelous of the ancient Greeks; and the probable ideas and feelings that originally suggested the mixture of the human and the brute form in the figure by which they realized the idea of their mysterious Pan, as representing intelligence blended with a darker power, deeper, mightier, and more universal than the conscious intellect of man, than intelligence ; all these thoughts and recollections passed in...
Page 340 - Farewell the tranquil mind ! farewell content ! Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars, That make ambition virtue ! O, farewell! Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner; and all quality, Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war ! And O you mortal engines, whose rude throats The .immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit, Farewell ! Othello's occupation's gone ! logo.
Page 194 - And this is in the night : — Most glorious night ! Thou wert not sent for slumber ! let me be A sharer in thy fierce and far delight, — A portion of the tempest and of thee ! How the lit lake shines, a phosphoric sea, And the big rain comes dancing to the earth ! And now again 'tis black, — and now, the glee Of the loud hills shakes with its mountain-mirth, As if they did rejoice o'er a young earthquake's birth.
Page 327 - No withered witch shall here be seen, No goblins lead their nightly crew ; The female fays shall haunt the green, And dress thy grave with pearly dew ! The redbreast oft, at evening hours, Shall kindly lend his little aid, With hoary moss, and gathered flowers, To deck the ground where thou art laid.
Page 309 - The bridegroom may forget the bride Was made his wedded wife yestreen ; The monarch may forget the crown That on his head an hour has been ; The mother may forget the child That smiles sae sweetly on her knee; But I'll remember thee, Glencairn, And a' that thou hast done for me ! " LINES SENT TO STR JOHN WHITEFORD, OP WHITEFORD, BART.
Page 68 - Jesus' sake, forbeare To dig the dust enclosed here: Blessed be the man that spares these stones, And curst be he that moves my bones.