The Devonshire adventurer, conducted by G.J. FreemanGeorge John Freeman |
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... chivalrons adventurer , portraits of heroisin and scenes of warfare . Every one has some particular taste , the pleasing or offending of which forms his rule of praise or censure . Such Such as these only like Poetry by halves ; they 15.
... chivalrons adventurer , portraits of heroisin and scenes of warfare . Every one has some particular taste , the pleasing or offending of which forms his rule of praise or censure . Such Such as these only like Poetry by halves ; they 15.
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... scenes around him would naturally have raised it . All the sources of sublimity above - mentioned must have been familiar to him . Whether on those vast upland deserts , which the early discoverers of America , viewing as far beyond the ...
... scenes around him would naturally have raised it . All the sources of sublimity above - mentioned must have been familiar to him . Whether on those vast upland deserts , which the early discoverers of America , viewing as far beyond the ...
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... scenes , where Nature reigns in primæval majesty , he will seem to awake as from a long and ignoble rest , he will feel a resurrection of his spirit , a revival as from death , a capability ( till then unknown ) of tasting more gene ...
... scenes , where Nature reigns in primæval majesty , he will seem to awake as from a long and ignoble rest , he will feel a resurrection of his spirit , a revival as from death , a capability ( till then unknown ) of tasting more gene ...
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... , had its space been filled up with ' different scenes of woe or elaborate delineations of torture , the strength of the whole would have been diminished , and the the impression dwindled away . Though the fall of Vulcan 39.
... , had its space been filled up with ' different scenes of woe or elaborate delineations of torture , the strength of the whole would have been diminished , and the the impression dwindled away . Though the fall of Vulcan 39.
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... scene . The darkest mind will sometimes be penetrated by the light of truth , and yearn , though but for a mo- ment , after the lost glories of virtue . If we be therefore now and then open to conviction , why do we omit to pro- fit ...
... scene . The darkest mind will sometimes be penetrated by the light of truth , and yearn , though but for a mo- ment , after the lost glories of virtue . If we be therefore now and then open to conviction , why do we omit to pro- fit ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Alimek appear Barnstaple beautiful Bideford Bodmin Bristol Channel called Chamber character child cold Cornwall course daughter death Deity delight Devon Devonshire Adventurer Devonshire parishes Ditto Divine DUROTRIGIUS earth evil Exeter feeling Fleet Street foggy rain Frost Frosty morning genius George Bridgman George John Freeman give hand happy hath Haydon and Nettleton heart Heaven high wind honor hope human Ilfracombe Iliad JAMES CHAVE Jesuits John Freeman lady language Launceston Lord ment mild miles mind Miss Cantwell Montacute moral mountains mouth nature never North Petherwin o'er object Parents passions person pleasure Plymouth Poet Poetry possess present reason Reverend river Saltash scenes SECTION shew society soul sublime sweet taste Tavistock thee things thou thought tion Torridge Town virtue words young youth
Pasajes populares
Página 201 - Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth : But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil : but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloke also. And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain. Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.
Página 156 - Arch-Angel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams; or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Página 156 - Commander : he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower : his form had yet not lost All her original brightness ; nor appear'd Less than Arch-Angel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscured...
Página 81 - There were giants in the earth in those days ; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
Página 30 - The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And , as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shape , and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name.
Página 45 - ... from the court of Rome, to trade with the nations which they laboured to convert. In consequence of this, they engaged in an extensive and lucrative commerce, both in the East and West Indies. They opened warehouses in different parts of Europe, in which they vended their commodities. Not satisfied with trade alone, they imitated the example of other commercial societies, and aimed at obtaining settlements. They acquired possession accordingly of a large and fertile province in the southern continent...
Página 83 - Boundless the deep, because I am who fill Infinitude, nor vacuous the space. Though I uncircumscribed myself retire, And put not forth my goodness, which is free To act or not, Necessity and Chance Approach not me, and what I will is Fate.
Página 78 - It was the lark, the herald of the morn, No nightingale ; look, love, what envious streaks Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east. Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops; I must be gone and live, or stay and die.
Página 201 - For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, teaching us, that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world ; looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God, and our Saviour Jesus Christ...
Página 46 - They have published such tenets concerning the duty of opposing princes who were enemies of the catholic faith, as countenanced the most atrocious crimes, and tended to dissolve all the ties which connect subjects with their rulers. As the order derived both reputation and authority from the zeal with which it stood forth in defence of the Romish church against the attacks of the reformers, its members, proud of this distinction, have considered it as their peculiar function to combat the opinions,...