The Literary Examiner: Consisting of the Indicator, a Review of Books, and Miscellaneous Pieces in Prose and VerseLeigh Hunt H.L. Hunt, 1823 - 412 páginas Contains all parts of the 'Literary Examiner'. Originally published as No. 1, Saturday July 5, 1823 - No. 26, Saturday Dec. 27, 1823. |
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... become ancient , the love of them becomes more unequivocal and con- spicuous . The ancients had little of what we call learning . They made it . They were also no very eminent buyers of books ; -they madei books for posterity . It is ...
... become ancient , the love of them becomes more unequivocal and con- spicuous . The ancients had little of what we call learning . They made it . They were also no very eminent buyers of books ; -they madei books for posterity . It is ...
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... becomes too much a matter of business ; and will either be attended to at the expence of the writer's books ; or books , the very admonishers of his industry , will * Chaucer at this time had an office under the Government . make him ...
... becomes too much a matter of business ; and will either be attended to at the expence of the writer's books ; or books , the very admonishers of his industry , will * Chaucer at this time had an office under the Government . make him ...
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... become books ! What better metamorphosis could Pythagoras have desired ! How Ovid and Horace exulted in anticipating theirs ! And how the world have justified their exultation ! They had a right to triumph over brass and marble . It is ...
... become books ! What better metamorphosis could Pythagoras have desired ! How Ovid and Horace exulted in anticipating theirs ! And how the world have justified their exultation ! They had a right to triumph over brass and marble . It is ...
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... becomes " quite chop - fallen . " We almost tremble at the insertion of the following positions of our English Misogug : - - Women have as little imagination as they have reason . They are pure egotists- They cannot go out of themselves ...
... becomes " quite chop - fallen . " We almost tremble at the insertion of the following positions of our English Misogug : - - Women have as little imagination as they have reason . They are pure egotists- They cannot go out of themselves ...
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... becomes accommodated to its situation , we severally , and in the same degree , partake of our certain and allotted portion of pleasure and pain . The difficulty of denying such an assertion rests solely on the impossibility of being ac ...
... becomes accommodated to its situation , we severally , and in the same degree , partake of our certain and allotted portion of pleasure and pain . The difficulty of denying such an assertion rests solely on the impossibility of being ac ...
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admiration Albert Alfman appeared Ariosto beautiful Booksellers and Newsvenders Broad-street C. W. REYNELL called Canto Carlostein character Christian country circulation free curious Don Juan Duke earth English Epigrams eyes Fall of Constantinople Faust favour feeling France French genius Genoa give H. L. HUNT hand head heart heaven High-street Hillyard and Morgan honour human imagination Jacob Jones James Mann King lady less LITERARY EXAMINER live look Lord Byron manner matter Milton mind moral Napoleon nature never Newsvenders in town noble o'er oblique order observed once opinion passion person poem poet poetry present Prince racter reader reason religion remark respect Risberg scarcely seems shew sort soul Spaewife species spirit story Sunderland Suwarrow taste Tavistock-street thee thing thou thought tion translation truth W. R. Macphun whole woman word writing young Zealanders
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Página 98 - Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures, While the landscape round it measures ; Russet lawns, and fallows gray...
Página 307 - Around : the wild fowl nestled in the brake And sedges, brooding in their liquid bed ; The woods sloped downwards to its brink, and stood With their green faces fix'd upon the flood.
Página 27 - He wrote this Polar melody, and set it, Duly accompanied by shrieks and groans, "Which few will sing, I trust, but none forget it — For I will teach, if possible, the stones To rise against Earth's tyrants.
Página 133 - So they came and called unto the porter of the city: and they told them, saying, We came to the camp of the Syrians, and, behold, there was no man there, neither voice of man, but horses tied, and asses tied, and the tents as they were.
Página 71 - And bid her steal into the pleached bower, Where honeysuckles, ripened by the sun, Forbid the sun to enter— like favourites, Made proud by princes, that advance their pride Against that power that bred it.
Página 21 - ... was eminently delighted with those flights of imagination which pass the bounds of nature, and to which the mind is reconciled only by a passive acquiescence in popular traditions. He loved fairies, genii, giants, and monsters ; he delighted to rove through the meanders of inchantment, to gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces, to repose by the water-falls of Elysian gardens.
Página 119 - I will tell you something which may amaze you a little more, and I hope will frighten you. It is such men as you who madden the spirits and the patience of the poor and wretched; and if ever a convulsion comes in this country (which is very probable), recollect what I tell you : you will have your...
Página 106 - there was no matter," And proved it — 'twas no matter what he said: They say his system 'tis in vain to batter, Too subtle for the airiest human head; And yet who can believe it? I would shatter Gladly all matters, down to stone or lead, Or adamant, to find the world a spirit, And wear my head, denying that I wear it.
Página 132 - I take my subjects' money, when I want it, without all this formality of parliament?" The bishop of Durham readily answered, "God forbid, Sir, but you should: you are the breath of our nostrils." Whereupon the King turned and said to the bishop of Winchester, "Well, my Lord, what say you?" "Sir," replied the bishop, "I have no skill to judge of parliamentary cases." The King answered, "No put-offs, my Lord; answer me presently.
Página 307 - Its outlet dash'd into a deep cascade, Sparkling with foam, until again subsiding, Its shriller echoes — like an infant made Quiet— sank into softer ripples...