New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volumen2Henry Colburn, 1821 |
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... seems assured of commanding deep attention and implicit belief : and though he is too simple , and too proudly embarked in his subject , to advert either to him- self or his hearers , yet whenever he names the poets of heroic ages , he ...
... seems assured of commanding deep attention and implicit belief : and though he is too simple , and too proudly embarked in his subject , to advert either to him- self or his hearers , yet whenever he names the poets of heroic ages , he ...
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... seems , had scruples about the undertaking ; but Onomacritus plied him with ancient prophecies , which he made so favourable to the barbarians , as to leave no doubt in his majesty's mind , that he should settle the peace of Europe , by ...
... seems , had scruples about the undertaking ; but Onomacritus plied him with ancient prophecies , which he made so favourable to the barbarians , as to leave no doubt in his majesty's mind , that he should settle the peace of Europe , by ...
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... seems to be turning a telescope upon utter darkness , through which she can discern no more than the vulgar eye . How long Homer's writings were preserved in a state of oral tradition , no one can pretend to determine . At the same time ...
... seems to be turning a telescope upon utter darkness , through which she can discern no more than the vulgar eye . How long Homer's writings were preserved in a state of oral tradition , no one can pretend to determine . At the same time ...
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... seems so much a part of the overflowing fulness of his mind , that we should no more wish him to be suc- cinct than we should desire to see the shores of the Missisippi trimmed into neatness . The virtues of Greek heroism are rude in ...
... seems so much a part of the overflowing fulness of his mind , that we should no more wish him to be suc- cinct than we should desire to see the shores of the Missisippi trimmed into neatness . The virtues of Greek heroism are rude in ...
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... seems to become so himself . Prodigal in sympathy with the events and agents which he conjures up , his imagination as tenderly conceives the lamentations of Hecuba , and the heart- sick swoon of Andromache , as it makes itself ...
... seems to become so himself . Prodigal in sympathy with the events and agents which he conjures up , his imagination as tenderly conceives the lamentations of Hecuba , and the heart- sick swoon of Andromache , as it makes itself ...
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Página 292 - So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the Fruit, she pluck'd, she eat: Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her Works gave signs of woe, That all was lost.
Página 265 - And time and place are lost ; where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy, amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand...
Página 60 - Lo, the poor Indian ! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way...
Página 128 - Tell us, for doubtless thou canst recollect, To whom should we assign the Sphinx's fame ? Was Cheops or Cephrenes architect Of either pyramid that bears his name ? Is Pompey's pillar really a misnomer ? Had Thebes a hundred gates, as sung by Homer...
Página 265 - Who, that surveys this span of earth we press, — This speck of life in time's great wilderness, This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas, The past, the future, two eternities ! — Would sully the bright spot, or leave it bare, When he might build him a proud temple there A name that long shall hallow all its space, And be each purer soul's high resting-place?
Página 103 - His doubts might have been indeed pardoned ; for, except perhaps the flying fish, there was no race existing on the earth, in the air, or the waters, who were the object of such an unintermitting, general, and relentless persecution as the Jews of this period. Upon the slightest and most unreasonable pretences, as well as upon accusations the most absurd and groundless, their persons and property were exposed to every turn of popular fury...
Página 58 - But worthier still of note Are those fraternal Four of Borrowdale, Joined in one solemn and capacious grove ; Huge trunks ! and each particular trunk a growth Of intertwisted fibres serpentine Up-coiling, and inveterately convolved...
Página 305 - Out of my grief and my impatience Answer'd neglectingly, I know not what, He should, or he should not ; for he made me mad To see him shine so brisk, and smell so sweet, And talk so like a waiting-gentlewoman...
Página 465 - See here, what a mighty pretty Horace I have in my pocket ! what if you amused yourself in turning an ode, till we mount again? Lord! if you pleased, what a clever Miscellany might you make at leisure hours ?
Página 366 - O friendly to the best pursuits of man, Friendly to thought, to virtue, and to peace...