The London Quarterly Review, Volumen 11Theodore Foster, 1814 |
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... interest , and to which his competency could admit of no question . The labours of M. Ginguené demand our first consi- deration , in a general view of Italian literature ; but we shall oc- casionally recur to the professor of Geneva ...
... interest , and to which his competency could admit of no question . The labours of M. Ginguené demand our first consi- deration , in a general view of Italian literature ; but we shall oc- casionally recur to the professor of Geneva ...
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... interest , the continual conflict of images , sacred and profane , ancient and modern , and the frequent admission of such as are either low and vulgar or even indecent and disgusting , are faults from which the warmest admirers among ...
... interest , the continual conflict of images , sacred and profane , ancient and modern , and the frequent admission of such as are either low and vulgar or even indecent and disgusting , are faults from which the warmest admirers among ...
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... interest in any class of modern read- ers , with the exception of his correspondence and his curious dialogues De Contemptu Mundi , which will ever be valuable for the strong light they cast on his personal character and the inci- dents ...
... interest in any class of modern read- ers , with the exception of his correspondence and his curious dialogues De Contemptu Mundi , which will ever be valuable for the strong light they cast on his personal character and the inci- dents ...
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... interest which pervades all these works appears the natural consequence of the want of rea- lity in the passion that is pretended to have inspired them . But , whatever may be their other merits , it is no small glory ( if M. Ginguené ...
... interest which pervades all these works appears the natural consequence of the want of rea- lity in the passion that is pretended to have inspired them . But , whatever may be their other merits , it is no small glory ( if M. Ginguené ...
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... interest which it almost necessarily derives from its original . Even in the coarse narrative of Turpin , ' says M. Ginguené , and he says truly , there exists a fund of interest which nothing can destroy . The prodigious efforts of ...
... interest which it almost necessarily derives from its original . Even in the coarse narrative of Turpin , ' says M. Ginguené , and he says truly , there exists a fund of interest which nothing can destroy . The prodigious efforts of ...
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Página 429 - How gloriously her gallant course she goes ! Her white wings flying — never from her foes — She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife.
Página 314 - For wheresoe'er I turn my ravish'd eyes, gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise, poetic fields encompass me around, and still I seem to tread on classic ground...
Página 192 - he did not beg a long life of God for any other reason, " but to live to finish his three remaining books of Polity ; " and then, Lord, let thy servant depart in peace;" which was his usual expression.
Página 493 - A man — the monarch of his mind. Now taste and try this temper, Sirs, Mood it, and brood it in your breast ; Or if ye ween, for worldly stirs That man does right to mar his rest, Let me be *deft and debonair, I am content, I do not care.
Página 136 - He called forth the latent virtues of the human heart, and taught men to discover in themselves a mine of charity, of which the proprietors had been unconscious. In feeding the lamp of charity, he has almost exhausted the lamp of life.
Página 497 - Tell them, I AM, JEHOVAH said To MOSES; while earth heard in dread, And, smitten to the heart, At once above, beneath, around, All Nature, without voice or sound, Replied, "O LORD, THOU ART.
Página 222 - The Report of the Select Committee of the House of Commons, appointed to inquire into the state of the...
Página 371 - Awake on your hills, on your islands awake, Brave sons of the mountain, the frith, and the lake ! 'Tis the bugle — but not for the chase is the call ; 'Tis the pibroch's shrill summons — but not to the hall. 'Tis the summons of heroes for conquest or death. When the banners are blazing on mountain and heath ; They call to the dirk, the claymore, and the targe, To the march and the muster, the line and the charge.
Página 314 - Now my weary lips I close: Leave me, leave me to repose.
Página 513 - THE BORDER ANTIQUITIES OF ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND, comprising Specimens of Architecture and Sculpture, and other Vestiges of Former Ages, accompanied by Descriptions. Together with Illustrations of remarkable Incidents in Border History and Tradition, and Original Poetry.