The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science and Art, Volumen3E. Littell, 1823 |
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... thing else , have yet been emulous to admire and to quote Lord Chatham : that Burke and Grattan have left to the world sketches of his character , which do equal honour to him and to themselves ; and that even the pen of Junius has ...
... thing else , have yet been emulous to admire and to quote Lord Chatham : that Burke and Grattan have left to the world sketches of his character , which do equal honour to him and to themselves ; and that even the pen of Junius has ...
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... thing but the accomplishment of them . He will forget all respect for the feelings and liberties of beings who are to be regarded as but a subordinate machinery , to be actuated or to be thrown aside when not actuated , by the spring of ...
... thing but the accomplishment of them . He will forget all respect for the feelings and liberties of beings who are to be regarded as but a subordinate machinery , to be actuated or to be thrown aside when not actuated , by the spring of ...
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... thing in nature , - piece of impertinent correspondency , -an odious approximation , - haunting conscience , -a preposterous shadow , lengthening in the noon - tide of your prosperity , -an unwelcome remembrancer , -a perpetually ...
... thing in nature , - piece of impertinent correspondency , -an odious approximation , - haunting conscience , -a preposterous shadow , lengthening in the noon - tide of your prosperity , -an unwelcome remembrancer , -a perpetually ...
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... thing that wore the semblance of a gown - insensible to the winks , and opener remonstrances of the young man , to whose chamber - fellow , or equal in standing perhaps , he was thus obse- quiously and gratuitously ducking . Such a ...
... thing that wore the semblance of a gown - insensible to the winks , and opener remonstrances of the young man , to whose chamber - fellow , or equal in standing perhaps , he was thus obse- quiously and gratuitously ducking . Such a ...
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... thing we see , That with our spirits communeth Of things mysterious - Life and Death , Time and Eternity ! I see Him in the blazing sun , And in the thunder cloud ; I hear Him in the mighty roar That rusheth through the forests hoar ...
... thing we see , That with our spirits communeth Of things mysterious - Life and Death , Time and Eternity ! I see Him in the blazing sun , And in the thunder cloud ; I hear Him in the mighty roar That rusheth through the forests hoar ...
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Página 549 - THE measure is English heroic verse without rime, as that of Homer in Greek, and of Virgil in Latin, — rime being no necessary adjunct or true ornament of poem or good verse, in longer works especially, but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre...
Página 549 - ... apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another...
Página 250 - His eye-balls farther out than when he lived. Staring full ghastly like a strangled man : His hair uprear'd, his nostrils stretch'd with struggling ; His hands abroad display'd, as one that grasp'd And tugg'd for life, and was by strength subdued.
Página 557 - Of breaking honesty:) horsing foot on foot? Skulking in corners ? wishing clocks more swift ? Hours, minutes ? noon, midnight ? and all eyes blind With the pin and web,' but theirs, theirs only, That would unseen be wicked ? is this nothing ? Why, then the world, and all that's in't, is nothing; The covering sky is nothing ; Bohemia nothing; My wife is nothing; nor nothing have these nothings, If this be nothing.
Página 561 - ... with entire submission of our own faculties, and in the perfect faith that in them there can be no too much or too little, nothing useless or inert — but that, the further we press in our discoveries, the more we shall see proofs of design and self-supporting arrangement where the careless eye had seen nothing but accident ! LEVANA AND OUR LADIES OF SORROW OFTENTIMES at Oxford I saw Levana in my dreams.
Página 561 - In order that a new world may step in, this world must for a time disappear. The murderers and the murder must be insulated — cut off by an immeasurable gulf from the ordinary tide and succession of human affairs — locked up and sequestered in some deep recess; we must be made sensible that the world of ordinary life is suddenly arrested — laid asleep — tranced — racked into a dread armistice...
Página 560 - Duncan,' and adequately to expound 'the deep damnation of his taking off,' this was to be expressed with peculiar energy. We were to be made to feel that the human nature, ie the divine nature of love and mercy, spread through the hearts of all creatures, and seldom utterly withdrawn from man, - was gone, vanished, extinct; and that the fiendish nature had taken its place. And, as this effect is marvellously accomplished in the dialogues and soliloquies themselves, so it is finally consummated by...
Página 560 - But in the murderer, such a murderer as a poet will condescend to, there must be raging some great storm of passion — jealousy, ambition, vengeance, hatred — which will create a hell within him ; and into this hell we are to look.
Página 27 - He is known by his knock. Your heart telleth you, "That is Mr. ." A rap, between familiarity and respect; that demands, and, at the same time, seems to despair of, entertainment. He entereth smiling and — embarrassed. He holdeth out his hand to you to shake, and — draweth it back again. He casually looketh in about dinner-time — when the table is full.
Página 417 - Vice is a monster of such frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; But seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.