The Cabinet: Or, Monthly Report of Polite Literature, Volumen4Mathews and Leigh., 1808 |
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... nature was severely boun- tiful . The acuteness and pungency of his feeling was incompatible with happiness : unnatural prejudice pressed upon the fibre , too finely spun , and snapped it . " Tis not as heads that never ache suppose ...
... nature was severely boun- tiful . The acuteness and pungency of his feeling was incompatible with happiness : unnatural prejudice pressed upon the fibre , too finely spun , and snapped it . " Tis not as heads that never ache suppose ...
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... nature , and is not deformed by an admixture of such unmeaning quibbles , and far- fetched conceits , as are to be found in the works of Cowley and his cotemporaries . " I hold Chaucer , " says Dryden , " in the same degree of ...
... nature , and is not deformed by an admixture of such unmeaning quibbles , and far- fetched conceits , as are to be found in the works of Cowley and his cotemporaries . " I hold Chaucer , " says Dryden , " in the same degree of ...
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... , neither necessary nor useful . He thinks , that reason , or innate force and energy of understanding , is sufficient of itself * ; that its own natural C 3 CABINET . 11 But rich he was of holy thought and work, ...
... , neither necessary nor useful . He thinks , that reason , or innate force and energy of understanding , is sufficient of itself * ; that its own natural C 3 CABINET . 11 But rich he was of holy thought and work, ...
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... natural movements , without any discipline from art , are equal to the in- vestigation and settling of truth ; that ... nature , when instinct honestly does her best , is sure to attain those several objects , without any didactic rules ...
... natural movements , without any discipline from art , are equal to the in- vestigation and settling of truth ; that ... nature , when instinct honestly does her best , is sure to attain those several objects , without any didactic rules ...
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... nature is not made of materials for such trials ; -LEAD US NOT IN- TO TEMPTATION , is a safe axiom , laid down by one who well knew , because he made us what we are . SPANIARDS AND PORTUGUESE . " WE are apt to mistake 22 CABINET .
... nature is not made of materials for such trials ; -LEAD US NOT IN- TO TEMPTATION , is a safe axiom , laid down by one who well knew , because he made us what we are . SPANIARDS AND PORTUGUESE . " WE are apt to mistake 22 CABINET .
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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.