The Retrospective Review.., Volumen2Henry Southern Charles and Henry Baldwyn, Newgate Street., 1820 |
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... whole end in writing was to make his readers wiser and better men , surely has a right to other treatment from that world on which his comet - like radiance was thrown . If there was nothing else to excite our lenity , yet should his ...
... whole end in writing was to make his readers wiser and better men , surely has a right to other treatment from that world on which his comet - like radiance was thrown . If there was nothing else to excite our lenity , yet should his ...
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... whole energy of his mind , and thus such of his compositions as remain were rather the sports of his leisure , than the full- wrought and elaborate performances of his study . He has , however , left enough to the world , to demonstrate ...
... whole energy of his mind , and thus such of his compositions as remain were rather the sports of his leisure , than the full- wrought and elaborate performances of his study . He has , however , left enough to the world , to demonstrate ...
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... whole circle of critical exposition , nothing which is at once so judicious , yet so poetical ; so inimitable , yet so easy . What has been said of the criticisms of Longinus may , with much more justice , be applied to this composition ...
... whole circle of critical exposition , nothing which is at once so judicious , yet so poetical ; so inimitable , yet so easy . What has been said of the criticisms of Longinus may , with much more justice , be applied to this composition ...
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... whole pages of laboured analysis . " The sweet - minded Philoclea was in their degree of well - doing , to whom the not knowing of evil serveth for a ground of virtue , and hold their inward powers in better forme , with an unspotted ...
... whole pages of laboured analysis . " The sweet - minded Philoclea was in their degree of well - doing , to whom the not knowing of evil serveth for a ground of virtue , and hold their inward powers in better forme , with an unspotted ...
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... whole squadrons of longings that so it might be , with a maine battell of mislikings and repinings against their creation , that so it was not . Then dreams by night began to bring more unto her , then she durst wish by day , where out ...
... whole squadrons of longings that so it might be , with a maine battell of mislikings and repinings against their creation , that so it was not . Then dreams by night began to bring more unto her , then she durst wish by day , where out ...
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Página 196 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty...
Página 84 - Yes, trust them not, for there is an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his tiger's heart wrapped in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes Factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.
Página 69 - Whose honours with increase of ages grow, As streams roll down, enlarging as they flow; Nations unborn your mighty names shall sound, And worlds applaud that must not yet be found!
Página 339 - I would not, with my will, present you sorrows, dear Bess ; let them go to the grave with me, and be buried in the dust : and seeing that it is not the will of God that I shall see you any more, bear my destruction patiently, and with a heart like yourself.
Página 193 - Raptores orbis, postquam cuncta vastantibus defuere terrae, et. mare scrutantur : si locuples hostis est, avari ; si pauper, ambitiosi : quos non Oriens, non Occidens, satiaverit. Soli omnium opes atque inopiam pari affectu concupiscunt. Auferre, trucidare, rapere, falsis nominibus imperium ; atque, ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.
Página 196 - They live no longer in the faith of reason ! But still the heart doth need a language, still Doth the old instinct bring back the old names, And to yon starry world they now are gone, Spirits or gods, that used to share this earth With man as with their friend ; and to the lover Yonder they move, from yonder visible sky Shoot influence down : and even at this day 'Tis Jupiter who brings whate'er is great, And Venus who brings every thing that's fair ! Thek.
Página 94 - Give me, next good, an understanding wife, By Nature wise, not learned by much art; Some knowledge on her side will all my life More scope of conversation impart; Besides, her inborne virtue fortifie; They are most firmly good, who best know why.
Página 345 - Like a broad table did itselfe dispred, For Love his loftie triumphes to engrave, And write the battailes of his great godhed: All good and honour might therein be red ; For there their dwelling was.
Página 78 - I have seen), which notwithstanding, as it is full of stately speeches and well-sounding phrases, climbing to the height of Seneca his style, and as full of notable morality, which it doth most delightfully teach, and so obtain the very end of poesy...
Página 213 - That not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom ; what is more, is fume, Or emptiness, or fond impertinence, And renders us, in things that most concern, Unpractised, unprepared, and still to seek.