Reminiscences of Charles Butler, Esq. of Lincoln's Inn: With a Letter to a Lady on Ancient and Modern MusicE. Bliss & E. White, 1824 - 351 páginas |
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... style and perfect com- mon sense of the Mæonian bard , are far above any praise which they can receive in these pages . His work is a prodigy : -we must suppose either that he was preceded by other writers , who had brought poetry to ...
... style and perfect com- mon sense of the Mæonian bard , are far above any praise which they can receive in these pages . His work is a prodigy : -we must suppose either that he was preceded by other writers , who had brought poetry to ...
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... style of Madame de Maintenon , and the unpretending wis- dom and good sense of her observations , addressed , in general , to per- sons in the most exalted ranks , but conveying lessons of virtue and prudence to persons of every ...
... style of Madame de Maintenon , and the unpretending wis- dom and good sense of her observations , addressed , in general , to per- sons in the most exalted ranks , but conveying lessons of virtue and prudence to persons of every ...
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... style of Boileau , without a useless epithet , or an imperfect word , and with very little of that inversion , which is the great defect of French poetry ; -he also recollects his admiration of the poems of Jean Baptiste Rousseau , who ...
... style of Boileau , without a useless epithet , or an imperfect word , and with very little of that inversion , which is the great defect of French poetry ; -he also recollects his admiration of the poems of Jean Baptiste Rousseau , who ...
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... style , can suspect , for a moment , that he was the author of them ; the merit of his style was simplicity ; he had both gaiety and strength , but to the rancorous sarcasm , the lofty contempt , with which Ju- 67.
... style , can suspect , for a moment , that he was the author of them ; the merit of his style was simplicity ; he had both gaiety and strength , but to the rancorous sarcasm , the lofty contempt , with which Ju- 67.
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... style of which was very like that of the letters ; another , after the letters appeared , in a style wholly unlike . These sermons , I think , I have seen , and that they did not appear to me to warrant Mr. Wilkes's observations . The ...
... style of which was very like that of the letters ; another , after the letters appeared , in a style wholly unlike . These sermons , I think , I have seen , and that they did not appear to me to warrant Mr. Wilkes's observations . The ...
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Página 132 - If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms — never — never — never.
Página 257 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
Página 173 - A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple. The miserable inhabitants, flying from their flaming villages, in part were slaughtered ; others, — without regard to sex, to age, to the respect of...
Página 133 - ... such principles confessed — to hear them avowed in this house, or in this country...
Página 172 - When at length Hyder Ali found that he had to do with men who either would sign no convention, or whom no treaty, and no signature could bind, and who were the determined enemies of human intercourse itself, he decreed to make the country possessed by these incorrigible and predestinated criminals...
Página 131 - I CANNOT, my lords, I WILL NOT join in congratulation on misfortune and disgrace. This, my lords, is a perilous and tremendous moment : it is not a time for adulation : the smoothness of flattery cannot save us in this rugged and awful crisis. It is now necessary to instruct the throne, in the language of TRUTH.
Página 173 - ... respect of rank, or sacredness of function ; fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading spears of drivers, and the trampling of pursuing horses, were swept into captivity in an unknown and hostile land. Those who were able to evade this tempest fled to the walled cities. But escaping from fire, sword, and exile, they fell into the jaws of famine.
Página 76 - Private credit is wealth ; public honour is security. The feather that adorns the royal bird supports his flight. Strip him of his plumage, and you fix him to the earth.
Página 80 - Nor has he dreaded the terrors of your brow, sir ; he has attacked even you — he has — and I believe you have no reason to triumph in the encounter. In short, after carrying away our royal eagle in his pounces, and dashing him against a rock, he has laid you prostrate. King, lords, and commons, are but the sport of his fury.
Página 23 - O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies...