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... duty of doing that which other journals have left undone , from what motives we presume not to conjecture . We have now the poem of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage com- plete , with its four cantos ; but complete in no other sense than this ...
... duty of doing that which other journals have left undone , from what motives we presume not to conjecture . We have now the poem of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage com- plete , with its four cantos ; but complete in no other sense than this ...
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... duty , as materially as any profession or undertaking in which a man can be engaged . Perish poetry , live the moral principle - the virtuous constitution of the soul ! May genius rather be dumb than endanger the hopes of an hereafter ...
... duty , as materially as any profession or undertaking in which a man can be engaged . Perish poetry , live the moral principle - the virtuous constitution of the soul ! May genius rather be dumb than endanger the hopes of an hereafter ...
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... duties , are presented to man ; the false sen- timent which runs in a vein of egotism through the whole com- position ; and a sort of epicurean despondency and heartless gloom , which discolours the pathos of the finest passages . But ...
... duties , are presented to man ; the false sen- timent which runs in a vein of egotism through the whole com- position ; and a sort of epicurean despondency and heartless gloom , which discolours the pathos of the finest passages . But ...
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... duty to exercise in the review of this last production of Lord Byron's genius . We trust we shall not be arrogating too much to ourselves , by observing , that it is in the British Review only that the works of this poet have been ...
... duty to exercise in the review of this last production of Lord Byron's genius . We trust we shall not be arrogating too much to ourselves , by observing , that it is in the British Review only that the works of this poet have been ...
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... Duties purely ministerial , honours derived from an individual , may be meritoriously performed , may be gracefully worn ; but , as an object of ambition , they are infinitely below the independent control of our fellow - citizens , and ...
... Duties purely ministerial , honours derived from an individual , may be meritoriously performed , may be gracefully worn ; but , as an object of ambition , they are infinitely below the independent control of our fellow - citizens , and ...
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Página 212 - From you have I been absent in the spring, When proud-pied April, dress'd in all his trim, Hath put a spirit of youth in every thing, That heavy Saturn laugh'd and leap'd with him.
Página 382 - Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I show the salvation of God.
Página 309 - Father, who wouldest not the death of a sinner but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live...
Página 428 - Parma, the colony or province of Louisiana, with the same extent that it now has in the hands of Spain, and that it had when France possessed it ; and such as it should be after the treaties subsequently entered into between Spain and other States.
Página 22 - Where the car climb'd the Capitol; far and wide Temple and tower went down, nor left a site: Chaos of ruins! who shall trace the void, O'er the dim fragments cast a lunar light, And say, 'here was, or is,
Página 15 - My hopes of being remembered in my line With my land's language. If too fond and far These aspirations in their scope incline — If my fame should be, as my fortunes are, Of hasty growth and blight, and dull Oblivion bar...
Página 20 - Fill'd with the face of heaven, which, from afar, Comes down upon the waters; all its hues, From the rich sunset to the rising star, Their magical variety diffuse: And now they change; a paler shadow strews Its mantle o'er the mountains; parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new color as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till — 'tis gone — and all is gray.
Página 19 - Aside for ever: it may be a sound — A tone of music — summer's eve — or spring — A flower — the wind — the ocean — which shall wound, Striking the electric chain wherewith we are darkly bound...
Página 30 - Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," as a proof that the Coliseum was entire, when seen by the Anglo-Saxon pilgrims at the end of the seventh, or the beginning of the eighth century. A notice on the Coliseum may be seen in the " Historical Illustrations,
Página 371 - And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life ; and this life is in his Son. He that hath the Son, hath life ; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.