The Retrospective Review.., Volumen8Henry Southern Charles and Henry Baldwyn, Newgate Street., 1823 |
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... affections of the heart . The critic and the poet are therefore governed by very different laws : the latter is an actor , the former a mere spectator , and conse- quently if he has not reason on his side , he cannot impute its absence ...
... affections of the heart . The critic and the poet are therefore governed by very different laws : the latter is an actor , the former a mere spectator , and conse- quently if he has not reason on his side , he cannot impute its absence ...
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... affection , we describe it poetically , if the description be marked with the impress of the affection which produces it ; that is , if it be obvious , from the mode of expression , that it was the affection excited by the object , not ...
... affection , we describe it poetically , if the description be marked with the impress of the affection which produces it ; that is , if it be obvious , from the mode of expression , that it was the affection excited by the object , not ...
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... affectionate brother , but only for the purpose of more securely accomplishing his aim . While they were at a great distance from land , she was com- pelled to trust her person to the waves , to avoid his odious so- licitations . The ...
... affectionate brother , but only for the purpose of more securely accomplishing his aim . While they were at a great distance from land , she was com- pelled to trust her person to the waves , to avoid his odious so- licitations . The ...
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... affection towards his friend , he thus expresses himself : * * * * * " My dear mistress's days were numbered , even in my imagina- tion . I believe sleep was never more welcome to a weary traveller , than death was to her . I have ...
... affection towards his friend , he thus expresses himself : * * * * * " My dear mistress's days were numbered , even in my imagina- tion . I believe sleep was never more welcome to a weary traveller , than death was to her . I have ...
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... affectionate a parent , was a sensible affliction to him . His attachment to Swift is strongly and ten- derly manifested ... affection and advice of his excellent friend . " If , " says he in his reply , " it be the will of God ( which I ...
... affectionate a parent , was a sensible affliction to him . His attachment to Swift is strongly and ten- derly manifested ... affection and advice of his excellent friend . " If , " says he in his reply , " it be the will of God ( which I ...
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Página 247 - Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night: and should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?
Página 312 - The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks, and gapes for drink again, The plants suck in the earth, and are With constant drinking fresh and fair. The sea itself, which one would think Should have but little need of drink, Drinks ten thousand rivers up, So fill'd that they oerflow the cup. The busy sun (and one would guess By...
Página 56 - Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me : if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right ; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Página 36 - A Valediction Forbidding Mourning As virtuous men pass mildly away, And whisper to their souls to go, Whilst some of their sad friends do say 'The breath goes now,' and some say 'No'; So let us melt, and make no noise, No tear-floods nor sigh-tempests move; 'Twere profanation of our joys To tell the laity our love. Moving of th...
Página 247 - Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord. Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.
Página 39 - Is elder by a year, now, than it was When thou and I first one another saw: All other things, to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay; This, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday. Running it never runs from us away. But truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.
Página 43 - And let ourselves benight our happiest day; We ask'd none leave to love; nor will we owe Any, so cheap a death, as saying, Go; Go; and if that word have not quite killed thee.
Página 37 - I WONDER, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov'd? Were we not wean'd till then? But suck'd on country pleasures, childishly ? Or snorted we in the seven sleepers' den? . . 'Twas so; but this, all pleasures fancies be. If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desir'd, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee. And now good morrow to our waking souls, Which...
Página 37 - To move, but doth if th' other do. And, though it in the centre sit, Yet, when the other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, And grows erect as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must Like th
Página 36 - Twere profanation of our joys To tell the laity our love. Moving of the earth brings harms and fears; Men reckon what it did and meant; But trepidation of the spheres, Though greater far, is innocent. Dull sublunary lovers' love, Whose soul is sense, cannot admit Absence, because it doth remove 15 Those things which elemented it.