The European Magazine, and London Review, Volume 78Philological Society of London, 1820 |
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... Character of the European Powers in 1187 .... ib . Scientific Sagacity ib . Anecdote ib . Authentic Anecdote of the Duke of Wellington 41 Midsummer Eve ih . Sir Thomas Gresbam ib . Sketch of the Life of Philip Mas- singer .... A ...
... Character of the European Powers in 1187 .... ib . Scientific Sagacity ib . Anecdote ib . Authentic Anecdote of the Duke of Wellington 41 Midsummer Eve ih . Sir Thomas Gresbam ib . Sketch of the Life of Philip Mas- singer .... A ...
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... character of the late lamented Princess CHARLOTTE was given in a Sermon preached by Dr. Rudge , at Limehouse Church , upon the day of her late Majesty's funeral : " Without any invidious and un- christianlike comparisons , which ought ...
... character of the late lamented Princess CHARLOTTE was given in a Sermon preached by Dr. Rudge , at Limehouse Church , upon the day of her late Majesty's funeral : " Without any invidious and un- christianlike comparisons , which ought ...
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... character , as remain of Philip Massinger . This deficiency , which it is useless to regret , may in some mea- sure be supplied by his works . The number of them affords the best proof that he was not idle in the employment E of his ...
... character , as remain of Philip Massinger . This deficiency , which it is useless to regret , may in some mea- sure be supplied by his works . The number of them affords the best proof that he was not idle in the employment E of his ...
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... character of Septi- mius , " the most finished villain in their dramatic performances , " ) Love's Pil- grimage , the Lover's Progress , and the Jeweller of Amsterdam , or the Hague . About the last , indeed , there is no doubt , it ...
... character of Septi- mius , " the most finished villain in their dramatic performances , " ) Love's Pil- grimage , the Lover's Progress , and the Jeweller of Amsterdam , or the Hague . About the last , indeed , there is no doubt , it ...
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... character of the Duke in the former , and in that of Luke in the Jatter . The Guardian is imitated in the Inconstant of Farquhar ; -and the plot and principal beauties of the Fair Penitent of Rowe were stolen , without acknowledgment ...
... character of the Duke in the former , and in that of Luke in the Jatter . The Guardian is imitated in the Inconstant of Farquhar ; -and the plot and principal beauties of the Fair Penitent of Rowe were stolen , without acknowledgment ...
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Page 264 - To strew fresh laurels let the task be mine, A frequent pilgrim at thy sacred shrine; Mine with true sighs thy absence to bemoan, And grave with faithful epitaphs thy stone.
Page 405 - ... boundless plains, waving with spontaneous verdure ; her broad deep rivers, rolling in solemn silence to the ocean ; her trackless forests, where vegetation puts forth all its magnificence ; her skies, kindling with the magic of summer clouds and glorious sunshine : — no, never need an American look beyond his own country for the sublime and beautiful of natural scenery.
Page 463 - ... of Law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God ; her voice, the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage : the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power; both angels and men, and creatures of what condition soever, though each in different sort and manner, yet all with uniform consent, admiring her as the mother of their peace and joy.
Page 352 - Brutes find out where their talents lie: A bear will not attempt to fly; A founder'd horse will oft debate, Before he tries a five-barr'd gate; A dog by instinct turns aside, Who sees the ditch too deep and wide. But man we find the only creature Who, led by Folly, combats Nature; Who, when she loudly cries, Forbear, With obstinacy fixes there; And, where his genius least inclines, Absurdly bends his whole designs.
Page 154 - Go rule thy will, Bid thy wild passions all be still, Know God — and bring thy heart to know, The joys which from religion flow: Then every Grace shall prove its guest, And I'll be there to crown the rest.
Page 154 - The seas that roll unnumber'd waves; The wood that spreads its shady leaves ; The field whose ears conceal the grain, The yellow treasure of the plain ; All of these, and all I see...
Page 327 - When I was a journeyman printer, one of my companions, an apprentice hatter, having served out his time, was about to open shop for himself. His first concern was to have a handsome signboard, with a proper inscription. He composed it in these words, "JOHN THOMPSON, HATTER, makes and sells hats for ready money...
Page 18 - ... forced to begin a minuet pace, with an air and a grace, swimming about, now in and now out, with a deal of state, in a figure of eight, without pipe or string, or any such thing ; and now I have writ, in a rhyming fit, what will make you dance, and as you advance, will keep you still, though against your will, dancing away, alert and gay, till you come to an end of what I...
Page 405 - ... to escape, in short, from the commonplace realities of the present, and lose myself among the shadowy grandeurs of the past.
Page 353 - And here a simile comes pat in : Though chickens take a month to fatten, The guests in less than half an hour Will more than half a score devour. So after toiling twenty days To earn a stock of pence and praise, Thy labours, grown the...