The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 37Leavitt, Trow, & Company, 1856 - American literature |
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... feelings than those of contempt and disgust . There are evidences of this in the last part of his great poem , where he almost shows an intention of falling foul of the existing powers and scourging them as he had scourged the opposite ...
... feelings than those of contempt and disgust . There are evidences of this in the last part of his great poem , where he almost shows an intention of falling foul of the existing powers and scourging them as he had scourged the opposite ...
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... feeling creatures species are multiplied upon species in such countless thousands - generations succeed to generations in such an endless repeti- tion - there is such an avidity for vitality upon every possible habitable portion of the ...
... feeling creatures species are multiplied upon species in such countless thousands - generations succeed to generations in such an endless repeti- tion - there is such an avidity for vitality upon every possible habitable portion of the ...
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... feeling how disgusted they must be at the climate which needs such a po- sition for them , Milverton muses , how- ever , that the same thing is only what the greatest men have had to endure , to live in an uncongenial clime , and to ...
... feeling how disgusted they must be at the climate which needs such a po- sition for them , Milverton muses , how- ever , that the same thing is only what the greatest men have had to endure , to live in an uncongenial clime , and to ...
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... which is unfortunate for his reputation with those who judge of ge nius by the fracture . He has a feeling of the responsibility of possessing intellectual power , or , at all events , he acts 58 [ Jan. , FIELDING AND THACKERAY .
... which is unfortunate for his reputation with those who judge of ge nius by the fracture . He has a feeling of the responsibility of possessing intellectual power , or , at all events , he acts 58 [ Jan. , FIELDING AND THACKERAY .
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... feeling of vations and vicissitudes since the time of strong mutual friendship , and three years her short - lived splendor in Dorsetshire . after the death of his Charlotte , Fielding , " Sometimes , " says Lady Mary Wortley thinking ...
... feeling of vations and vicissitudes since the time of strong mutual friendship , and three years her short - lived splendor in Dorsetshire . after the death of his Charlotte , Fielding , " Sometimes , " says Lady Mary Wortley thinking ...
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Page 435 - What things have we seen Done at the ' Mermaid ? ' Heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life.
Page 319 - She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love : A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye ! — Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky. She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be ; But she is in her grave, and, oh, The difference to me...
Page 10 - The wrong, than others the right way; Compound for sins they are inclined to By damning those they have no mind to.
Page 10 - Twas Presbyterian true blue, For he was of that stubborn crew Of errant saints, whom all men grant To be the true church militant ; Such as do build their faith upon The holy text of pike and gun ; Decide all controversies by Infallible artillery ; And prove their doctrine orthodox By apostolic blows and knocks...
Page 50 - It is good, in discourse and speech of conversation, to vary and intermingle speech of the present occasion with arguments, tales with reasons, asking of questions with telling of opinions, and jest with earnest: for it is a dull thing to tire, and, as we say now, to jade, any thing too far.
Page 60 - That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
Page 10 - WHEN civil dudgeon first grew high, And men fell out, they knew not why ; When hard words, jealousies, and fears, Set folks together by the ears, And made them fight, like mad or drunk, For Dame Religion, as for punk ; VOL.
Page 443 - Though old Ulysses tortured from his slumbers The glutted Cyclops, what care? — Juliet leaning Amid her window-flowers, — sighing, — weaning Tenderly her fancy from its maiden snow, Doth more avail than these: the silver flow Of Hero's tears, the swoon of Imogen, Fair Pastorella in the bandit's den, Are things to brood on with more ardency Than the death-day of empires.
Page 10 - When hard words jealousies, and fears, Set folks together by the ears, And made them fight, like mad or drunk, For Dame Religion, as for punk ; , Whose honesty they all durst swear for, Though not a man of them knew wherefore ; When Gospel-Trumpeter, surrounded With long-eared rout, to battle sounded, And pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist, instead of a stick ; Then did Sir Knight abandon dwelling, And out he rode a colonelling.
Page 64 - Pasquin. A Dramatick Satire on the Times : Being the Rehearsal of Two Plays, viz. A Comedy call'd The Election ; and a Tragedy call'd The Life and Death of Common-Sense.