The Quarterly Review, Volumen 21William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1819 |
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... Athens might have sat and listened with profit and delight . Such , however , is the frail texture of human affairs , that these reasonable expectations , we lament to say , proved alto- gether fallacious . Mr. Fearon's sublime idea of ...
... Athens might have sat and listened with profit and delight . Such , however , is the frail texture of human affairs , that these reasonable expectations , we lament to say , proved alto- gether fallacious . Mr. Fearon's sublime idea of ...
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... fond of the writings of Lady Morgan . We have reason to know that from Ida of Athens , the first ( we believe ) of her mon- strous strous progeny , to that last sooterkin of dullness and Fearon's Sketches of America . 143.
... fond of the writings of Lady Morgan . We have reason to know that from Ida of Athens , the first ( we believe ) of her mon- strous strous progeny , to that last sooterkin of dullness and Fearon's Sketches of America . 143.
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... Athens , are canvassed , can only be made superfluous or uninteresting by the manner of treating it . After some remarks equally just and forcible on the OLD COME- DY , the merits of the first of these two extraordinary men are ad ...
... Athens , are canvassed , can only be made superfluous or uninteresting by the manner of treating it . After some remarks equally just and forcible on the OLD COME- DY , the merits of the first of these two extraordinary men are ad ...
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... Athens ) he has here and there introduced , Aristophanes shews himself to be a true poet , and capable , had he so chosen , of reaching the highest eminence even in the more dignified departments of his art . This might be abundantly ...
... Athens ) he has here and there introduced , Aristophanes shews himself to be a true poet , and capable , had he so chosen , of reaching the highest eminence even in the more dignified departments of his art . This might be abundantly ...
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... Athens that it served in some measure the purposes of the modern Gazette , in which public measures and the topics of the day might be fully discussed , and that in consequence the dramatis persona were generally the poet's own ...
... Athens that it served in some measure the purposes of the modern Gazette , in which public measures and the topics of the day might be fully discussed , and that in consequence the dramatis persona were generally the poet's own ...
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Página 47 - Thou crownest the year with thy goodness ; and thy paths drop fatness. They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness : and the little hills rejoice on every side. The pastures are clothed with flocks ; the valleys also are covered over with corn ; they shout for joy, they also sing.
Página 36 - In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark; they, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.
Página 40 - Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem? I tell you, Nay: but except ye repent yc shall all likewise perish.
Página 45 - If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men ; then the Lord hath not sent me. But if the Lord make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down quick into the pit ; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the Lord.
Página 117 - Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free ; They touch our country, and their shackles fall.
Página 383 - The charms that she wielded before ; Nor knows the foul worm that he frets The skin which but yesterday fools could adore, For the smoothness it held, or the tint which it wore. Shall we build to the purple of Pride, The trappings which dizen the proud? Alas ! they are all laid aside ; And here's neither dress nor adornment allowed, But the long winding-sheet, and the fringe of the shroud.
Página 47 - ... waterest it: thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water: thou...
Página 47 - Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.
Página 346 - Twenty-seven names make up the first story, and the recorded names ever since contain not one living century. The number of the dead long exceedeth all that shall live. The night of time far surpasseth the day; and who knows when was the equinox ? Every hour adds unto that current arithmetic, which scarce stands one moment.
Página 346 - But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature.