The London Quarterly Review, Volumen 11Theodore Foster, 1814 |
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... success ; and neither the passion of the one ( disfigured as it was in a bald and unfaithful version ) nor the fable of the other was of sufficient interest to supply its place . The scriptural fact which Mr. Montgomery has chosen for ...
... success ; and neither the passion of the one ( disfigured as it was in a bald and unfaithful version ) nor the fable of the other was of sufficient interest to supply its place . The scriptural fact which Mr. Montgomery has chosen for ...
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... successful ambi- tion brought with it no happiness . He was the favourite minstrel of the Great King , whose furious passions were assuaged by his music ; and having now in the course of attendance upon his person been brought back to ...
... successful ambi- tion brought with it no happiness . He was the favourite minstrel of the Great King , whose furious passions were assuaged by his music ; and having now in the course of attendance upon his person been brought back to ...
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... successful , he says , three things are required , as in busbandry ; first , that the soil be good ; secondly , that the husbandman be skilful ; lastly , that the seed be clean and well chosen : so should the subject of a poem be well ...
... successful , he says , three things are required , as in busbandry ; first , that the soil be good ; secondly , that the husbandman be skilful ; lastly , that the seed be clean and well chosen : so should the subject of a poem be well ...
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... successful portions of the work before us are , the second interview between Javan and Zillah , and the scene be- tween them before the giant - king . This is the effect of rhyme , which , in our language , is ill adapted for the ...
... successful portions of the work before us are , the second interview between Javan and Zillah , and the scene be- tween them before the giant - king . This is the effect of rhyme , which , in our language , is ill adapted for the ...
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... success in Terence was generally allowed , influenced for a time the public voice in favour of this imitation of his plan . But the work is now almost for- gotten ; nor indeed can a good translation of Plautus be expected until he is ...
... success in Terence was generally allowed , influenced for a time the public voice in favour of this imitation of his plan . But the work is now almost for- gotten ; nor indeed can a good translation of Plautus be expected until he is ...
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Página 429 - How gloriously her gallant course she goes ! Her white wings flying — never from her foes — She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife.
Página 314 - For wheresoe'er I turn my ravish'd eyes, gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise, poetic fields encompass me around, and still I seem to tread on classic ground...
Página 192 - he did not beg a long life of God for any other reason, " but to live to finish his three remaining books of Polity ; " and then, Lord, let thy servant depart in peace;" which was his usual expression.
Página 493 - A man — the monarch of his mind. Now taste and try this temper, Sirs, Mood it, and brood it in your breast ; Or if ye ween, for worldly stirs That man does right to mar his rest, Let me be *deft and debonair, I am content, I do not care.
Página 136 - He called forth the latent virtues of the human heart, and taught men to discover in themselves a mine of charity, of which the proprietors had been unconscious. In feeding the lamp of charity, he has almost exhausted the lamp of life.
Página 497 - Tell them, I AM, JEHOVAH said To MOSES; while earth heard in dread, And, smitten to the heart, At once above, beneath, around, All Nature, without voice or sound, Replied, "O LORD, THOU ART.
Página 222 - The Report of the Select Committee of the House of Commons, appointed to inquire into the state of the...
Página 371 - Awake on your hills, on your islands awake, Brave sons of the mountain, the frith, and the lake ! 'Tis the bugle — but not for the chase is the call ; 'Tis the pibroch's shrill summons — but not to the hall. 'Tis the summons of heroes for conquest or death. When the banners are blazing on mountain and heath ; They call to the dirk, the claymore, and the targe, To the march and the muster, the line and the charge.
Página 314 - Now my weary lips I close: Leave me, leave me to repose.
Página 513 - THE BORDER ANTIQUITIES OF ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND, comprising Specimens of Architecture and Sculpture, and other Vestiges of Former Ages, accompanied by Descriptions. Together with Illustrations of remarkable Incidents in Border History and Tradition, and Original Poetry.