Sketches of English Literature: With Considerations on the Spirit of the Times, Men, and Revolutions, Volumen 2H. Colburn, 1836 |
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... letter after letter , but received no reply ; at length he despatched a messenger , who threw away his eloquence and his time . The deserted husband then resolved to repudiate his runaway spouse . In order to extend to other husbands ...
... letter after letter , but received no reply ; at length he despatched a messenger , who threw away his eloquence and his time . The deserted husband then resolved to repudiate his runaway spouse . In order to extend to other husbands ...
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... letter to the Prince of Wales . On this subject he refers to the condemnation of several crowned heads , and pitilessly comes down to the execution of Mary Stuart , Charles's grandmother - a sneer without courage , for Charles slept at ...
... letter to the Prince of Wales . On this subject he refers to the condemnation of several crowned heads , and pitilessly comes down to the execution of Mary Stuart , Charles's grandmother - a sneer without courage , for Charles slept at ...
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... letter from a boy of fifteen , dated from the ramparts of Missolonghi . My dear comrade , ' he wrote , in his simple manner , to * Preface to the Author's " Travels in Greece , Palestine , " & c . in the edition of his " Complete Works ...
... letter from a boy of fifteen , dated from the ramparts of Missolonghi . My dear comrade , ' he wrote , in his simple manner , to * Preface to the Author's " Travels in Greece , Palestine , " & c . in the edition of his " Complete Works ...
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... letters are found those which he ad- dressed to the court of France . Such despatches are a monument , from the nature of the facts , and from the nature of the persons . The author of " Paradise Lost " thus writes , in the name of Crom ...
... letters are found those which he ad- dressed to the court of France . Such despatches are a monument , from the nature of the facts , and from the nature of the persons . The author of " Paradise Lost " thus writes , in the name of Crom ...
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... letters , to make known this accident so deeply to be la- mented , as well to your eminency as to the king ; and to assure your eminency , which is but reason , that we shall most religiously observe all those things which our father ...
... letters , to make known this accident so deeply to be la- mented , as well to your eminency as to the king ; and to assure your eminency , which is but reason , that we shall most religiously observe all those things which our father ...
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Página 129 - Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best.
Página 19 - I began thus far to assent both to them and divers of my friends here at home, and not less to an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intent study, (which I take to be my portion in this life,) joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die.
Página 30 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
Página 148 - CROMWELL, our chief of men, who, through a cloud Not of war only, but detractions rude, Guided by faith and matchless fortitude, To peace and truth thy glorious way hast plough'd...
Página 19 - Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted...
Página 5 - No war, or battle's sound Was heard the world around ; The idle spear and shield were high up hung ; The hooked chariot stood Unstained with hostile blood ; The trumpet spake not to the armed throng ; And kings sat still with awful eye, As if they surely knew their sovran Lord was by.
Página 152 - Thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovran vital lamp ; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.
Página 153 - Tunes her nocturnal note: thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine...
Página 126 - Two of far nobler shape erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native honour clad In naked majesty seemed lords of all, And worthy seemed, for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure, Severe, but in true filial freedom placed; Whence true authority in men...
Página 101 - Urania, and fit audience find, though few-. But drive far off the barbarous dissonance Of Bacchus and his revellers, the race Of that wild rout that tore the Thracian bard In Rhodope, where woods and rocks had ears To rapture, till the savage clamour drown'd Both harp and voice ; nor could the muse defend Her son.