The Eclectic Review, Volume 9; Volume 101Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood 1855 - English literature |
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... English Queen Eliza- beth , it is recorded , for example , that the one strangled five and the other nineteen of his brothers , on coming to the throne . Mahomet , the founder of the religion , rebuked the Bedouin , who was an ...
... English Queen Eliza- beth , it is recorded , for example , that the one strangled five and the other nineteen of his brothers , on coming to the throne . Mahomet , the founder of the religion , rebuked the Bedouin , who was an ...
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... English , and afterwards in French ; and it is the only one of the three journals published in French which has held its ground in Smyrna , where two journals are published in Greek , one in Armenian , and one in Hebrew . Thirteen ...
... English , and afterwards in French ; and it is the only one of the three journals published in French which has held its ground in Smyrna , where two journals are published in Greek , one in Armenian , and one in Hebrew . Thirteen ...
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... English journal is a circumstance which cannot be favourable to English interests ; and politeness to our Allies does not require us to forget the historical fact , that visions of Oriental conquests have kindled as many imaginations in ...
... English journal is a circumstance which cannot be favourable to English interests ; and politeness to our Allies does not require us to forget the historical fact , that visions of Oriental conquests have kindled as many imaginations in ...
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... English criticism . In this branch of composition he strengthened the very soil of his mother tongue , insomuch that it is difficult to say how far modern writers are indebted to his development of the resources of our language . His ...
... English criticism . In this branch of composition he strengthened the very soil of his mother tongue , insomuch that it is difficult to say how far modern writers are indebted to his development of the resources of our language . His ...
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... English , we gratefully acknowledge our obligations . To the publishers we would advise a little more attention to the print- ing , especially in Hebrew words , where we are perpetually annoyed by the grossest errata . We have already ...
... English , we gratefully acknowledge our obligations . To the publishers we would advise a little more attention to the print- ing , especially in Hebrew words , where we are perpetually annoyed by the grossest errata . We have already ...
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Page 413 - I remember, I remember Where I was used to swing, And thought the air must rush as fresh To swallows on the wing ; My spirit flew in feathers then That is so heavy now, And summer pools could hardly cool The fever on my brow. I remember, I remember...
Page 164 - When Learning's triumph o'er her barbarous foes First reared the stage immortal Shakespeare rose: Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds and then imagined new : Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting Time toiled after him in vain : His powerful strokes presiding Truth impressed And unresisted Passion stormed the breast.
Page 608 - It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the Sea: Listen! the mighty Being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thunder— everlastingly.
Page 143 - His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave. Fountains, and ye that warble, as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise. Join voices all ye living Souls: Ye Birds, That singing up to Heaven-gate ascend, Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise.
Page 280 - She sate by the pillar; we saw her clear: "Margaret, hist! come quick, we are here! Dear heart," I said, "we are long alone; The sea grows stormy, the little ones moan.
Page 611 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, — Calm or convulsed, in breeze, or gale, or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving — boundless, endless, and sublime, The image of eternity, the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Page 86 - Tis some relief, that points not clearly known, Without much hazard may be let alone: And after hearing what our Church can say, If still our reason runs another way, That private reason 'tis more just to curb, Than by disputes the public peace disturb. For points obscure are of small use to learn: But common quiet is mankind's concern.
Page 610 - They moved in tracks of shining white, And when they reared, the elfish light Fell off in hoary flakes. "Within the shadow of the ship I watched their rich attire: Blue, glossy green, and velvet black, They coiled and swam; and every track Was a flash of golden fire.
Page 303 - Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover thee? Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, And say unto thee, Here we are?
Page 87 - Who although he be God and Man, yet he is not two but one Christ; one, not by conversion of the godhead into flesh, but by taking of the manhood into God; one altogether, not by confusion of substance, but by unity of Person. For as the reasonable soul and flesh is one man, so God and Man is one Christ.