The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volumen 102A. Constable, 1855 |
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... success , brought also disappointments and disgrace . Insecurity was an inevitable incident of a fortune built less upon intrinsic qualities than upon the patronage of the versatile and the vicious . Dryden's services to the State were ...
... success , brought also disappointments and disgrace . Insecurity was an inevitable incident of a fortune built less upon intrinsic qualities than upon the patronage of the versatile and the vicious . Dryden's services to the State were ...
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... success of his dogma essential to his own tragic celebrity . He was not perhaps sincere in his professed opinion , or his practice would even more closely have coincided with his theory . There can be no doubt , however , that a ...
... success of his dogma essential to his own tragic celebrity . He was not perhaps sincere in his professed opinion , or his practice would even more closely have coincided with his theory . There can be no doubt , however , that a ...
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... success in every path of life . But he seems to have entertained no other than literary ambition . He had , nevertheless , witnessed the rise of his con- temporaries from the humblest origin to the heigl of political power . Conscious ...
... success in every path of life . But he seems to have entertained no other than literary ambition . He had , nevertheless , witnessed the rise of his con- temporaries from the humblest origin to the heigl of political power . Conscious ...
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... success ; and , were even success obtained , the frightful price at which it must necessarily be bought . ' Sire , ' observes one day M. de Narbonne to Bonaparte , we shall , of course , follow wherever your majesty chooses to lead ; we ...
... success ; and , were even success obtained , the frightful price at which it must necessarily be bought . ' Sire , ' observes one day M. de Narbonne to Bonaparte , we shall , of course , follow wherever your majesty chooses to lead ; we ...
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... success . It is not our intention to enter into the details of the Congress of Prague , where , on the 12th July , the Emperor had appointed MM . de Narbonne and de Caulaincourt as his plenipotentiaries . Peace was impossible now , even ...
... success . It is not our intention to enter into the details of the Congress of Prague , where , on the 12th July , the Emperor had appointed MM . de Narbonne and de Caulaincourt as his plenipotentiaries . Peace was impossible now , even ...
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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!