Retrospective Review, Volume 9Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas C. and H. Baldwyn, 1824 - English literature |
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... ment , is , notwithstanding , obvious and instructive . Whenever so remarkable a discordance is observed in the po- licy of two bodies of men bearing the same name , and having ostensibly the same interests , as we have noticed in the ...
... ment , is , notwithstanding , obvious and instructive . Whenever so remarkable a discordance is observed in the po- licy of two bodies of men bearing the same name , and having ostensibly the same interests , as we have noticed in the ...
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... ment in its clearest and most striking point of view , but which is so common a defect in the oratorical productions of all ages , as to appear almost inseparable from that mode of writing , we believe the chief reasons in favour of the ...
... ment in its clearest and most striking point of view , but which is so common a defect in the oratorical productions of all ages , as to appear almost inseparable from that mode of writing , we believe the chief reasons in favour of the ...
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... ment . Next it is a lively and cheerful presage of our happy success and victory . For as in a body , when the blood is fresh , the spirits pure and vigorous , not only to vital but to rational faculties , and those in the acutest and ...
... ment . Next it is a lively and cheerful presage of our happy success and victory . For as in a body , when the blood is fresh , the spirits pure and vigorous , not only to vital but to rational faculties , and those in the acutest and ...
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... ment ? Be it so . We thank him for the solution , and proceed in our task . Suckling's verses , then , ( for we are to speak of his verses first ) are easy , careless , and debonnair ; or , to print the word so that it may at once ...
... ment ? Be it so . We thank him for the solution , and proceed in our task . Suckling's verses , then , ( for we are to speak of his verses first ) are easy , careless , and debonnair ; or , to print the word so that it may at once ...
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... ment purely , not as a gift . They had no such thing as poeti- cal ploughboys then , and no notion of them ; and of all the writings which enrich the poetical literature of the present day , none would have had the smallest chance of ...
... ment purely , not as a gift . They had no such thing as poeti- cal ploughboys then , and no notion of them ; and of all the writings which enrich the poetical literature of the present day , none would have had the smallest chance of ...
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Page 314 - Lone wandering, but not lost. All day thy wings have fanned At that far height, the cold thin atmosphere; Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome land, Though the dark night is near.
Page 31 - WHY so pale and wan, fond lover? Prithee, why so pale? Will, when looking well can't move her, Looking ill prevail? Prithee, why so pale?
Page 12 - Osiris, took the virgin truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds. From that time ever since, the sad friends of truth, such as durst appear, imitating the careful search that Isis made for the mangled body of Osiris, went up and down gathering up limb by limb still as they could find them.
Page 314 - midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.
Page 361 - I know that all the muse's heavenly lays, With toil of sprite which are so dearly bought, As idle sounds, of few or none are sought, That there is nothing lighter than mere praise.
Page 314 - Seek'st thou the plashy brink Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide, Or where the rocking billows rise and sink On the chafed ocean side? • There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast.— The desert and illimitable air,— Lone wandering, but not lost.
Page 19 - ... is so sprightly up, as that it has not only wherewith to guard well its own freedom and safety, but to spare, and to bestow upon the solidest and sublimest points of controversy and new invention, it betokens us not degenerated, nor drooping to a fatal decay...
Page 12 - Him were laid asleep, then straight arose a wicked race of deceivers, who, as that story goes of the Egyptian Typhon, i with his conspirators, how they dealt with the good Osiris, took the virgin Truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds. From that time ever since, the sad friends of...
Page 13 - To be still searching what we know not, by what we know, still closing up truth to truth as we find it (for all her body is homogeneal, and proportional) this is the golden rule in Theology as well as in Arithmetic, and makes up the best harmony in a church; not the forced and outward union of cold, and neutral, and inwardly divided minds.
Page 364 - Since that dear voice which did thy sounds approve, Which wont in such harmonious strains to flow, Is reft from earth to tune those spheres above, What art thou but a harbinger of woe? Thy pleasing notes be pleasing notes no more, But orphans...