The European Magazine, and London Review, Volume 87Philological Society of London, 1825 |
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... common sense and nature bestowed on man , to share in the delights and pain of every thing connected with their fate . But there are , however , some visible defects in this poem . The circum- stances attending the fate of the ...
... common sense and nature bestowed on man , to share in the delights and pain of every thing connected with their fate . But there are , however , some visible defects in this poem . The circum- stances attending the fate of the ...
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... common words . Thus the old gentleman could not say teete à teete ( tête - à - tête ) or , my shoe ( Monsieur ) without one of his daughters crying out , " My dear papa , I do assure you , that is not the way to pronounce it ; " or if ...
... common words . Thus the old gentleman could not say teete à teete ( tête - à - tête ) or , my shoe ( Monsieur ) without one of his daughters crying out , " My dear papa , I do assure you , that is not the way to pronounce it ; " or if ...
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... common at the bar of the legal profession , as at a bar of a less dignified description . Thus we hear a council declare , that " if his hands ( not his tongue nor his papers ) had not been tied by his instructions , the proceedings ...
... common at the bar of the legal profession , as at a bar of a less dignified description . Thus we hear a council declare , that " if his hands ( not his tongue nor his papers ) had not been tied by his instructions , the proceedings ...
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... common place remarks upon the weather , or the probable duration of the voyage , or the skilfulness of the Captain , or the sea - worthiness of the vessel , with the cold , strange mor- tals , whom chance made my com- panions , for the ...
... common place remarks upon the weather , or the probable duration of the voyage , or the skilfulness of the Captain , or the sea - worthiness of the vessel , with the cold , strange mor- tals , whom chance made my com- panions , for the ...
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... common- place courtesy from an Englishman , it is not performed with genuflections and grimaces - it is not accompanied by epithets of respect and expressions indicative of the donor's satisfaction- but it is bestowed without effort or ...
... common- place courtesy from an Englishman , it is not performed with genuflections and grimaces - it is not accompanied by epithets of respect and expressions indicative of the donor's satisfaction- but it is bestowed without effort or ...
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Page 470 - 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 ; and will you preserve unto the bishops and clergy of this realm, and to the churches committed to their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do or shall appertain unto them, or any of them ? ' King or queen :
Page 346 - In its stream immersed, The lamps of heaven flash with a softer light ; All baser things pant with life's sacred thirst, Diffuse themselves, and spend in love's delight The beauty and the joy of their renewed might. XX. The leprous corpse, touched by this spirit tender...
Page 462 - And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail king of the Jews!
Page 181 - Go, Sun ! while mercy holds me up On nature's awful waste, To drink this last and bitter cup Of grief that man shall taste. Go ! tell the night that hides thy face, Thou saw'st the last of Adam's race, On earth's sepulchral clod, The darkening universe defy To quench his immortality, Or shake his trust in God...
Page 145 - Her rest is broken — the sweet refreshment of sleep is poisoned by melancholy dreams — " dry sorrow drinks her blood," until her enfeebled frame sinks under the slightest external injury. Look for her, after a little while, and you find friendship weeping over her untimely grave, and wondering that one, who but lately glowed with all the radiance of health and beauty, should so speedily be brought down to
Page 216 - And slight withal may be the things which bring Back on the heart the weight which it would fling Aside for ever: it may be a sound — A tone of music— summer's eve — or spring — A flower — the wind — the ocean — which shall wound, Striking the electric chain wherewith we are darkly bound ; XXIV.
Page 240 - But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house, I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine : But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood.
Page 428 - Their thoughts are often new, but seldom natural ; they are not obvious, but neither are they just ; and the reader, far from wondering that he missed them, wonders more frequently by what perverseness of industry they were ever found.
Page 65 - Animated with all the avarice of age, and all the impetuosity of youth, they roll in one after another, wave after wave, and there is nothing before the eyes of the natives but an endless, hopeless prospect of new flights of birds of prey and passage, with appetites continually renewing for a food that is continually wasting.
Page 345 - Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone, But grief returns with the revolving year; The airs and streams renew their joyous tone; The ants, the bees, the swallows reappear; Fresh leaves and flowers deck the dead Season's bier; The amorous birds now pair in every brake, And build their mossy homes in field and brere; And the green lizard, and the golden snake, Like unimprisoned flames, out of their trance awake.