The Cabinet: Or, Monthly Report of Polite Literature, Volumen4Mathews and Leigh., 1808 |
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... pieces in Mr. Scott's appendix , are copied from it verbatim . The book belongs to the University here . I am , sir , yours , & c . Glasgow . J. F. LOGIC , OR THE ART OF REASONING . LOGIC , or ( as it may be called ) the art of ...
... pieces in Mr. Scott's appendix , are copied from it verbatim . The book belongs to the University here . I am , sir , yours , & c . Glasgow . J. F. LOGIC , OR THE ART OF REASONING . LOGIC , or ( as it may be called ) the art of ...
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... pieces , ripped the winding - sheet , and tied his body to an ass's tail , and so dragged him up and down the gutters of Paris ( which are none of the sweetest ) ; they then sliced off his ears , and nailed them upon the gates of the ...
... pieces , ripped the winding - sheet , and tied his body to an ass's tail , and so dragged him up and down the gutters of Paris ( which are none of the sweetest ) ; they then sliced off his ears , and nailed them upon the gates of the ...
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... piece of white paper . I then directed all to be silent while the ceremony was performing , under pain of their being struck with death . Having had this explained by Pun- napa to the chiefs , and by them again to the people , I was ...
... piece of white paper . I then directed all to be silent while the ceremony was performing , under pain of their being struck with death . Having had this explained by Pun- napa to the chiefs , and by them again to the people , I was ...
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... piece , in proportion to their vices or virtues , should have any material influence on the conduct or senti- ments of the persons that witness it , is , in my judg- ment , an absurd supposition . It is at least evident that such a ...
... piece , in proportion to their vices or virtues , should have any material influence on the conduct or senti- ments of the persons that witness it , is , in my judg- ment , an absurd supposition . It is at least evident that such a ...
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... piece , is not to present us with a complete account of the lives and moral dispositions of its personages- it is confined to the representation of a single action , and the occurrences of a few hours - Is it then unna- tural for a man ...
... piece , is not to present us with a complete account of the lives and moral dispositions of its personages- it is confined to the representation of a single action , and the occurrences of a few hours - Is it then unna- tural for a man ...
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Página 168 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any. He was (indeed) honest, and of an open and free nature; had an excellent phantasy, brave notions, and gentle expressions...
Página 36 - O, woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow A ministering angel thou...
Página 36 - Let Stanley charge with spur of fire — With Chester charge, and Lancashire, Full upon Scotland's central host, Or victory and England's lost. Must I bid twice ? Hence, varlets ! fly ! Leave Marmion here alone — to die.
Página 168 - Now of time they are much more liberal; for ordinary it is, that two young princes fall in love: after many traverses she is got with child: delivered of a fair boy: he is lost, groweth a man, falleth in love, and is ready to get another child; and all this in two hours...
Página 168 - If there be never a servant monster in the fair, who can help it, he says, nor a nest of antiques ? he is loth to make nature afraid in his plays, like those that beget tales, tempests, and such like drolleries...
Página 35 - For talents mourn, untimely lost, When best employ'd, and wanted most ; Mourn genius high, and lore profound, And wit that loved to play, not wound ; And all the reasoning powers divine, To penetrate, resolve, combine ; And feelings keen, and fancy's glow, — They sleep with him who sleeps below...
Página 35 - Where — taming thought to human pride ! — The mighty chiefs sleep side by side. Drop upon Fox's grave the tear, 'Twill trickle to his rival's bier ; O'er PITT'S the mournful requiem sound, And Fox's shall the notes rebound. The solemn echo seems to cry, — " Here let their discord with them die : Speak not for those a separate doom, Whom Fate made Brothers in the tomb ; But search the land of living men, Where wilt thou find their like agen...
Página 33 - NOVEMBER'S sky is chill and drear, November's leaf is red and sear : Late, gazing down the steepy linn, That hems our little garden in, Low in its dark and narrow glen, You scarce the rivulet might ken, So thick the tangled greenwood grew, So feeble trill'd the streamlet through : Now, murmuring hoarse, and frequent seen, Through bush and brier, no longer green, An angry brook, it sweeps the glade, Brawls over rock and wild cascade, And, foaming brown with doubled speed, * Hurries its waters to the...
Página 6 - Tis not, as heads that never ache suppose, Forgery of fancy and a dream of woes ; Man is a harp whose chords elude the sight, Each yielding harmony, disposed aright, The screws reversed, (a task which if he please God in a moment executes with ease,) Ten thousand thousand strings at once go loose, Lost, till he tune them, all their power and use.
Página 166 - To draw no envy, Shakespeare, on thy name, Am I thus ample to thy book and fame, While I confess thy writings to be such As neither man nor muse can praise too much.