The Cabinet: Or, Monthly Report of Polite Literature, Volumen1Mathews and Leigh., 1807 |
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... natural deficiency of voice , unable to acquire reputation as a declaimer . a Yet it may be that elocution was declining , at the period alluded to , was beginning to assume pompous , unnatural sort of gait or march , more adapted to ...
... natural deficiency of voice , unable to acquire reputation as a declaimer . a Yet it may be that elocution was declining , at the period alluded to , was beginning to assume pompous , unnatural sort of gait or march , more adapted to ...
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... natural action , as it affords the most salutary exercise to the lungs , will add strength , animation , and activity to the whole frame : and such advantage will be found to result , in an unrivalled measure , from the pages of Milton ...
... natural action , as it affords the most salutary exercise to the lungs , will add strength , animation , and activity to the whole frame : and such advantage will be found to result , in an unrivalled measure , from the pages of Milton ...
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... nature ; and if , among the multitude of readers , the most callous - nerved relax in tenderness at this pathetic descant of the poet on his own blindness , the objection must at once be withdrawn , or left to famish on the barrenness ...
... nature ; and if , among the multitude of readers , the most callous - nerved relax in tenderness at this pathetic descant of the poet on his own blindness , the objection must at once be withdrawn , or left to famish on the barrenness ...
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... nature of his occupation , began to de- cline ; and soon after the birth of his third child , he was seized with a fever that threatened to be fatal . The poor Mary was always by his bed - side . Though her heart was ready to break ...
... nature of his occupation , began to de- cline ; and soon after the birth of his third child , he was seized with a fever that threatened to be fatal . The poor Mary was always by his bed - side . Though her heart was ready to break ...
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... nature of his origin . But to drop the ques- tion whether all minds are originally the same , there can be no doubt that they do progressively display remarkable differences ; and it is my province to notice some of the prominent causes ...
... nature of his origin . But to drop the ques- tion whether all minds are originally the same , there can be no doubt that they do progressively display remarkable differences ; and it is my province to notice some of the prominent causes ...
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Página 89 - Will you solemnly promise and swear to govern the people of this kingdom of England, and the dominions thereto belonging, according to the statutes in parliament agreed on, and the laws and customs of the same?" — The king or queen shall say, "I solemnly promise so to do.
Página 58 - To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart, To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold...
Página 107 - Will you to the utmost of your power maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the Gospel, and the Protestant reformed religion established by law...
Página 121 - And for a discerning man, somewhat too passionate a lover; for I like her with all her faults, nay, like her for her faults. Her follies are so natural, or so artful, that they become her, and those affectations which in another woman would be odious serve but to make her more agreeable.
Página 107 - You shall swear to be a true and faithful servant unto the King's Majesty, as one of his Majesty's Privy Council. You shall not know or understand of any manner of thing...
Página 82 - A dungeon horrible, on all sides round As one great furnace flam'd, yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Serv'd only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all; but torture without end Still urges, and a fiery deluge, fed With ever-burning sulphur unconsum'd...
Página 221 - Who was the cause of a long ten years war, And laid at last old Troy in ashes? Woman! Destructive, damnable, deceitful woman ! Woman, to man first as a blessing given; When innocence and love were in their prime, Happy...
Página 38 - To paint things as they are requires a minute attention, and employs the memory rather than the fancy. Milton's delight was to sport in the wide regions of possibility; reality was a scene too narrow for his mind. He sent his faculties out upon discovery, into worlds where only imagination can travel, and delighted to form new modes of existence, and furnish sentiment and action to superior beings, to trace the counsels of Hell, or accompany the choirs of Heaven.
Página 95 - His hed was balled, and shone as any glas, And eke his face, as it hadde ben anoint. He was a lord ful fat and in good point. His eyen stepe, and rolling in his hed, That stemed as a forneis of a led.
Página 93 - ... of declamation thunder here; There forests of no meaning spread the page, In which all comprehension wanders lost; While fields of pleasantry amuse us there, With merry descants on a nation's woes. The rest appears a wilderness of strange But gay confusion: roses for the cheeks, And lilies for the brows of faded age; Teeth for the toothless, ringlets for the bald...