The Quarterly Review, Volumen10John Murray, 1813 |
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... friends . She was natu- rally gay , intelligent , and ingenious , and her style is on the whole agreeable . But she deals largely - according , we presume , to the custom of the age among those that piqued themselves upon writing good ...
... friends . She was natu- rally gay , intelligent , and ingenious , and her style is on the whole agreeable . But she deals largely - according , we presume , to the custom of the age among those that piqued themselves upon writing good ...
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... friends and relations not to inflict upon them a large quantity of dulness and commonplace . She has considerable comic powers , which break out agreeably enough when she is writing with less care than usual , but on great occasions ...
... friends and relations not to inflict upon them a large quantity of dulness and commonplace . She has considerable comic powers , which break out agreeably enough when she is writing with less care than usual , but on great occasions ...
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... friends ( Mrs. West , the wife of Gilbert West ) tells her that public fame had acquainted her , that Mrs. Montagu was the most agreeable correspondent in the world . ' Such a reputation was worth an effort to maintain , and that effort ...
... friends ( Mrs. West , the wife of Gilbert West ) tells her that public fame had acquainted her , that Mrs. Montagu was the most agreeable correspondent in the world . ' Such a reputation was worth an effort to maintain , and that effort ...
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... friends , are often natural , lively , and agreeable . Those to Lord Lyttelton are vastly more laboured , and vastly less pleasant . But those , fortunately few in number , composed for the benefit of that very learned , very excel ...
... friends , are often natural , lively , and agreeable . Those to Lord Lyttelton are vastly more laboured , and vastly less pleasant . But those , fortunately few in number , composed for the benefit of that very learned , very excel ...
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... friend of mine . I do not know whether you will always sub- scribe to his system , but I think you will find him an elegant and inge- nious writer . He is far from the pert pedantry and assuming ignorance of modern witlings , but in ...
... friend of mine . I do not know whether you will always sub- scribe to his system , but I think you will find him an elegant and inge- nious writer . He is far from the pert pedantry and assuming ignorance of modern witlings , but in ...
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Página 332 - Appals the gazing mourner's heart, As if to him it could impart The doom he dreads, yet dwells upon ; Yes, but for these, and these alone, Some moments, ay, one treacherous hour, He still might doubt the tyrant's power ; So fair, so calm, so softly sealed, The first, last look by death revealed!
Página 332 - Tis Greece, but living Greece no more ! So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, We start, for soul is wanting there. Hers is the loveliness in death, That parts not quite with parting breath ; But beauty with that fearful bloom, That hue which haunts it to the tomb — Expression's last receding ray, A gilded halo hovering round decay, The farewell beam of Feeling past away ! Spark of that flame, perchance of heavenly birth, Which gleams, but warms no more its cherished earth...
Página 332 - Such is the aspect of this shore; 'Tis Greece, but living Greece no more! So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, We start, for soul is wanting there. Hers is the loveliness in death, That parts not quite with parting breath; But beauty with that fearful bloom, That hue which haunts it to the tomb; Expression's last receding ray, A gilded halo hovering round decay, The farewell beam of Feeling past away!
Página 120 - Who is on my side? who?" And there looked out to him two or three eunuchs. And he said, "Throw her down." So they threw her down: and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses : and he trode her under foot.
Página 331 - He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress...
Página 125 - It came from mine own heart, so to my head, And thence into my fingers trickled; Then to my pen, from whence immediately On paper I did dribble it daintily.
Página 335 - Woe waits the insect and the maid ; A life of pain, the loss of peace, From infant's play, and man's caprice : The lovely toy so fiercely sought Hath lost its charm by being caught, For every touch that woo'd its stay Hath brush'd its brightest hues away, Till charm, and hue, and beauty gone, 'Tis left to fly or fall alone...
Página 106 - All things come by nature"; and the elements and stars came over me, so that I was in a manner quite clouded with it. But inasmuch as I sate still and silent the people of the house perceived nothing.
Página 107 - There is a spirit which I feel, that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things, in hope to enjoy its own in the end: its hope is to outlive all wrath and contention, and to weary out all exaltation and cruelty, or whatever is of a nature contrary to itself.
Página 122 - ... had her reward with him, for whose sake she did this service, how unworthy soever the person was, that made so ill a return for it: she rejoiced, that God had honoured her to be the first that suffered by fire in this reign : and that her suffering was a martyrdom for that religion which was all love.