The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volumen 102A. Constable, 1855 |
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... already enter- tained by an elder writer was inconsistent with any pretension to mental originality ; and Sir William professed to have abandoned his scheme of an epic poem on the legend of King Arthur in deference to his own canon ...
... already enter- tained by an elder writer was inconsistent with any pretension to mental originality ; and Sir William professed to have abandoned his scheme of an epic poem on the legend of King Arthur in deference to his own canon ...
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... unpopular , he cannot hope , in his own day , to alter the social constitution . Pope , it must be remembered , had already begun to write poetry before Dryden died . Like every other poet , who in 1855 . 7 The Genius of Dryden .
... unpopular , he cannot hope , in his own day , to alter the social constitution . Pope , it must be remembered , had already begun to write poetry before Dryden died . Like every other poet , who in 1855 . 7 The Genius of Dryden .
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... already enunciated opinion for the mere sake of uniformity , is simply a dogged adherence to a false principle . We are often told of the contrast , in political consistency , between the two great poets of the seventeenth century ...
... already enunciated opinion for the mere sake of uniformity , is simply a dogged adherence to a false principle . We are often told of the contrast , in political consistency , between the two great poets of the seventeenth century ...
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... already intimated the character of the revenge he sought ; and to him the outrage was generally ascribed . A reward of fifty pounds for a discovery of the perpetrators was , however , vainly offered in the Gazette . Nothing can more ...
... already intimated the character of the revenge he sought ; and to him the outrage was generally ascribed . A reward of fifty pounds for a discovery of the perpetrators was , however , vainly offered in the Gazette . Nothing can more ...
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... already had the sanction of Spenser in this country , of Ariosto in Italy , and of the whole legion of the Romanticists and the Trouvères . - On the 24th of November , 1681 , the Grand Jury ignored the bill of high treason which had ...
... already had the sanction of Spenser in this country , of Ariosto in Italy , and of the whole legion of the Romanticists and the Trouvères . - On the 24th of November , 1681 , the Grand Jury ignored the bill of high treason which had ...
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Página 504 - The Danube to the Severn gave The darken'd heart that beat no more; They laid him by the pleasant shore, And in the hearing of the wave. There twice a day the Severn fills; The salt sea-water passes by, And hushes half the babbling Wye, And makes a silence in the hills.
Página 422 - And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand: and Joshua went unto him, and said unto him, "Art thou for us, or for our adversaries?" And he said, " Nay ; but as captain of the host of the Lord am I now come.
Página 545 - A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses.
Página 510 - I have led her home, my love, my only friend. There is none like her, none. And never yet so warmly ran my blood And sweetly, on and on Calming itself to the long-wish'd-for end, Full to the banks, close on the promised good. None like her, none. Just now the dry-tongued laurels...
Página 423 - The Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
Página 249 - Better a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
Página 255 - O'er-run and trampled on: then what they do in present, Though less than yours in past, must o'ertop yours...
Página 423 - For the leaders of this people cause them to err ; and they that are led of them are destroyed.
Página 252 - ... and we are not to expect that the majority will be disposed to look to much more than the outward sign. I believe the fact to be, that wit is very seldom the only eminent quality which resides in the mind of any man ; it is commonly accompanied by many other talents of every description, and ought to be considered as a strong evidence of a fertile and superior understanding. Almost all the great poets, orators, and statesmen of all times, have been witty.
Página 424 - To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!