Knight's Quarterly Magazine, Volume 3Knight, 1824 |
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... condition of genius that it fancies itself absolved from the ordinary laws of human action ; and substitutes irregular excitements for settled principles . Whether or not to this cause is to be attributed the want of No.
... condition of genius that it fancies itself absolved from the ordinary laws of human action ; and substitutes irregular excitements for settled principles . Whether or not to this cause is to be attributed the want of No.
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... cause of Literature have been made in his humble field ; and of others that they have brought to him the full vigour of those talents which had previously received the most conclusive encourage- ment . The Quarterly Magazine will be ...
... cause of Literature have been made in his humble field ; and of others that they have brought to him the full vigour of those talents which had previously received the most conclusive encourage- ment . The Quarterly Magazine will be ...
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... causes of excitement and enthusiasm will bear a close examination . The spirit of analysis like the glass of Ruggiero in Ariosto , produces a complete disenchant- ment . The experience of this might prove useful if we could always ...
... causes of excitement and enthusiasm will bear a close examination . The spirit of analysis like the glass of Ruggiero in Ariosto , produces a complete disenchant- ment . The experience of this might prove useful if we could always ...
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... causes conspire to keep them down to it , which perhaps originate in part with the climate and nature of their country , and with their own physical and moral qualities . The futility of the attempts made within these few years to revo ...
... causes conspire to keep them down to it , which perhaps originate in part with the climate and nature of their country , and with their own physical and moral qualities . The futility of the attempts made within these few years to revo ...
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... cause of liberty , having no national model of a free constitution , determined upon adopting that one just proclaimed in Spain . Unluckily , the constitution of Spain , like that of France in 1792 , seems more adapted for some island ...
... cause of liberty , having no national model of a free constitution , determined upon adopting that one just proclaimed in Spain . Unluckily , the constitution of Spain , like that of France in 1792 , seems more adapted for some island ...
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Page 38 - Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Page 191 - Thy sweet child Sleep, the filmy-eyed, Murmured like a noontide bee, Shall I nestle near thy side? Wouldst thou me? — And I replied, No, not thee! Death will come when thou art dead, Soon, too soon — Sleep will come when thou art fled; Of neither would I ask the boon I ask of thee, beloved Night— Swift be thine approaching flight, Come soon, soon!
Page 83 - Sorrow is knowledge : they who know the most Must mourn the deepest o'er the fatal truth, The tree of knowledge is not that of life.
Page 189 - SWIFT as a spirit hastening to his task Of glory and of good, the sun sprang forth Rejoicing in his splendour, and the mask Of darkness fell from the awakened Earth. The smokeless altars of the mountain snows Flamed above crimson clouds, and at the birth Of light, the Ocean's orison arose, To which the birds tempered their matin lay.
Page 86 - Slow melting strains their Queen's approach declare : Where'er she turns the Graces homage pay. With arms sublime, that float upon the air, In gliding state she wins her easy way : O'er her warm cheek, and rising bosom, move The bloom of young Desire, and purple light of Love.
Page 190 - I PANT for the music which is divine, My heart in its thirst is a dying flower; Pour forth the sound like enchanted wine, Loosen the notes in a silver shower; Like a herbless plain, for the gentle rain, I gasp, I faint, till they wake again.
Page 190 - SWIFTLY walk over the western wave, Spirit of Night ! Out of the misty eastern cave, Where all the long and lone daylight, Thou wovest dreams of joy and fear, Which make thee terrible and dear, — Swift be thy flight...
Page 191 - The breath of the moist earth is light, Around its unexpanded buds ; Like many a voice of one delight, The winds, the birds, the ocean floods, The City's voice itself is soft like Solitude's.
Page 39 - As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past Mozambic, off at sea north-east winds blow Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the Blest; with, such delay Well pleased they slack their course, and many a league Cheer'd with the grateful smell old Ocean smiles...
Page 304 - ... to some misshapen idol over the ruined dome of our proudest temple, and shall see a single naked fisherman wash his nets in the river of the ten thousand masts...