The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ..., Volumen155Edw. Cave, 1736-[1868], 1834 |
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... poets have usually proved good prose writers , to the energy which the mind acquires from conquering a difficulty , and which imparts a corresponding vigour of thought and expression to literary composition . This solution appears ...
... poets have usually proved good prose writers , to the energy which the mind acquires from conquering a difficulty , and which imparts a corresponding vigour of thought and expression to literary composition . This solution appears ...
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... Poems you gave me reason to expect I should soon see . I now beg leave to return you my thanks for the entertainment ... poem , every thing should be easy , natural , and perspicuous . Intricacy in books of abstruser literature , is to ...
... Poems you gave me reason to expect I should soon see . I now beg leave to return you my thanks for the entertainment ... poem , every thing should be easy , natural , and perspicuous . Intricacy in books of abstruser literature , is to ...
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... Poems with great pleasure , and begged her to acquaint you with my approbation of them . I thought them very ingenious and poetical . Very little has appeared this winter in the literary , and hardly anything in the poetical world ; for ...
... Poems with great pleasure , and begged her to acquaint you with my approbation of them . I thought them very ingenious and poetical . Very little has appeared this winter in the literary , and hardly anything in the poetical world ; for ...
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... poets has been able to add to the exuberant and grotesque display of magical ingredients , which the rich fancy of Shakspeare accumulated ; and how difficult it is to invent new forms or combinations of images , when nature and the ...
... poets has been able to add to the exuberant and grotesque display of magical ingredients , which the rich fancy of Shakspeare accumulated ; and how difficult it is to invent new forms or combinations of images , when nature and the ...
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... poem by Charles Aleyn 1 14 1651. Nympha Libethris , or the Cotswold Muse . By Clement Barksdale 1608. A Nest of Ninnies . By Robert Armin 1594. Questions , & c . talked of by two old Seniors , under an oake in Kenilworth Parke . By ...
... poem by Charles Aleyn 1 14 1651. Nympha Libethris , or the Cotswold Muse . By Clement Barksdale 1608. A Nest of Ninnies . By Robert Armin 1594. Questions , & c . talked of by two old Seniors , under an oake in Kenilworth Parke . By ...
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Página 18 - His outward freedom : tyranny must be ; Though to the tyrant thereby no excuse. Yet sometimes nations will decline so low From virtue, which is reason, that no wrong, But justice, and some fatal curse annex'd, Deprives them of their outward liberty ; Their inward lost : witness the irreverent son Of him who built the ark ; who, for the shame Done to his father, heard this heavy curse, Servant of servants, on his vicious race.
Página 195 - Tell Fortune of her blindness, Tell Nature of decay, Tell Friendship of unkindness, Tell Justice of delay ; And if they will reply, Then give them all the lie.
Página 586 - Philosophy, wisdom, and liberty, support each other ; he who will not reason, is a bigot ; he who cannot, is a fool ; and he who dares not, is a slave.
Página 195 - Say to the court, it glows And shines like rotten wood; Say to the church, it shows What's good, and doth no good : If church and court reply, Then give them both the lie. Tell potentates, they live Acting by others' action; Not loved unless they give, Not strong but by a faction: If potentates reply, Give potentates the lie.
Página 26 - It is the fashion to underrate Horace Walpole, firstly, because he was a nobleman, and secondly, because he was a gentleman; but, to say nothing of the composition of his incomparable " Letters," and of the "Castle of Otranto," he is the "Ultimus Romanorum," the author of the " Mysterious Mother," a tragedy of the highest order, and riot a puling love-play.
Página 360 - HAvE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
Página 195 - Go, Soul, the body's guest, Upon a thankless arrant: Fear not to touch the best; The truth shall be thy warrant: Go, since I needs must die, And give the world the lie. Say to the court, it glows And shines like rotten wood; Say to the church it shows What's good, and doth no good: If church and court reply, Then give them both the lie. Tell potentates, they live Acting by others...
Página 135 - Then he went to the corner of the scaffold, and called very loud for the warder, to give him his perriwig, which he took off, and put on a night-cap of Scotch plaid, and then pulled off his coat and waistcoat and lay down; but being told he was on the wrong side, vaulted round, and immediately gave the sign by tossing up his arm, as if he were giving the signal for battle. He received three blows, but the first certainly took away all sensation.
Página 367 - Friday, that even the noble crowd in the drawing-room clambered on chairs and tables to look at her. There are mobs at their doors to see them get into their chairs, and people go early to get places at the theatres, when it is known they will be there.
Página 152 - I do not believe, neither do I hear, that any officer escaped with his life, save only one Lieutenant, who, I hear, going to the Enemy said, That he was the only man that escaped of all the Garrison. The Enemy upon this were filled with much terror. And truly I believe this bitterness will save much effusion of blood, through the goodness of God.