New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volumen 2Henry Colburn, 1821 |
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... observations on Homer are still more amusing . " We see not , " he says , " in the Iliad , either a crowd of staff - officers around Agamemnon , or a garde de corps- Agamemnon dresses himself ( it was lucky that powdering and shaving ...
... observations on Homer are still more amusing . " We see not , " he says , " in the Iliad , either a crowd of staff - officers around Agamemnon , or a garde de corps- Agamemnon dresses himself ( it was lucky that powdering and shaving ...
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in the character of my countrymen ; but I have generally observed it among the best and the worthiest . As to my confidential friends , espe- cially the one I mentioned at the beginning of this letter , in strict con- formity with the ...
in the character of my countrymen ; but I have generally observed it among the best and the worthiest . As to my confidential friends , espe- cially the one I mentioned at the beginning of this letter , in strict con- formity with the ...
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... observed , with great truth , that the most philan- thropic man would feel more uneasiness in the expectation of having his little finger cut off , than in the assurance that the whole empire of China was to be swallowed up , the next ...
... observed , with great truth , that the most philan- thropic man would feel more uneasiness in the expectation of having his little finger cut off , than in the assurance that the whole empire of China was to be swallowed up , the next ...
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... observe that the degree of delicacy , or its opposite , in a confessor - besides the individual influence of virtue and , more than virtue , good- breeding - must greatly depend upon the general refinement of the people among whom he ...
... observe that the degree of delicacy , or its opposite , in a confessor - besides the individual influence of virtue and , more than virtue , good- breeding - must greatly depend upon the general refinement of the people among whom he ...
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... observed the same practice at a town not far from the capi- tal of Andalusia ; and , for any thing he knew to the contrary , it may have been very common all over Spain . Such is the doctrine which , disowned in theory by the divines of ...
... observed the same practice at a town not far from the capi- tal of Andalusia ; and , for any thing he knew to the contrary , it may have been very common all over Spain . Such is the doctrine which , disowned in theory by the divines of ...
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Página 292 - So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the Fruit, she pluck'd, she eat: Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her Works gave signs of woe, That all was lost.
Página 265 - And time and place are lost ; where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy, amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand...
Página 60 - Lo, the poor Indian ! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way...
Página 128 - Tell us, for doubtless thou canst recollect, To whom should we assign the Sphinx's fame ? Was Cheops or Cephrenes architect Of either pyramid that bears his name ? Is Pompey's pillar really a misnomer ? Had Thebes a hundred gates, as sung by Homer...
Página 265 - Who, that surveys this span of earth we press, — This speck of life in time's great wilderness, This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas, The past, the future, two eternities ! — Would sully the bright spot, or leave it bare, When he might build him a proud temple there A name that long shall hallow all its space, And be each purer soul's high resting-place?
Página 103 - His doubts might have been indeed pardoned ; for, except perhaps the flying fish, there was no race existing on the earth, in the air, or the waters, who were the object of such an unintermitting, general, and relentless persecution as the Jews of this period. Upon the slightest and most unreasonable pretences, as well as upon accusations the most absurd and groundless, their persons and property were exposed to every turn of popular fury...
Página 58 - But worthier still of note Are those fraternal Four of Borrowdale, Joined in one solemn and capacious grove ; Huge trunks ! and each particular trunk a growth Of intertwisted fibres serpentine Up-coiling, and inveterately convolved...
Página 305 - Out of my grief and my impatience Answer'd neglectingly, I know not what, He should, or he should not ; for he made me mad To see him shine so brisk, and smell so sweet, And talk so like a waiting-gentlewoman...
Página 465 - See here, what a mighty pretty Horace I have in my pocket ! what if you amused yourself in turning an ode, till we mount again? Lord! if you pleased, what a clever Miscellany might you make at leisure hours ?
Página 366 - O friendly to the best pursuits of man, Friendly to thought, to virtue, and to peace...