The European Magazine, and London Review, Volume 70Philological Society of London, 1816 |
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... look for the practical effects of female sovereignty ; but the picture is too gloomy to be contemplated , as the whole of that Princess's annals were stained with the blood of martyrs , and the independence of England was sa- crificed ...
... look for the practical effects of female sovereignty ; but the picture is too gloomy to be contemplated , as the whole of that Princess's annals were stained with the blood of martyrs , and the independence of England was sa- crificed ...
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... look with an unwinking eye upon the disgusting de- formity of vice , and to reflect with an unimproved heart upon its hateful ty- ranny over the human mind . — With these feelings , Madam , I have opposed your vindication of Bertram ...
... look with an unwinking eye upon the disgusting de- formity of vice , and to reflect with an unimproved heart upon its hateful ty- ranny over the human mind . — With these feelings , Madam , I have opposed your vindication of Bertram ...
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... look for it in vain in the enjoy ment of power , our search in the more trifling and light amusements of the world ... looks , is one of the greatest objects of pity we could offer to notice , a frequent succession of his amusements ...
... look for it in vain in the enjoy ment of power , our search in the more trifling and light amusements of the world ... looks , is one of the greatest objects of pity we could offer to notice , a frequent succession of his amusements ...
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... look upon his decisions as decisions of wis dom - if we do not , but disregard them , fatal experience will at no great dis- tance of time compel us , and , in so doing , cast upon us the merited reward of an obstinate infidelity . For ...
... look upon his decisions as decisions of wis dom - if we do not , but disregard them , fatal experience will at no great dis- tance of time compel us , and , in so doing , cast upon us the merited reward of an obstinate infidelity . For ...
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... look on Chatterton's disastrous end , Oh , ill starr'd youth , whom nature form'd in vain . With powers on Pindus ' splendid height to reign ! O dread example of what pangs await Young genius struggling with malignant fate ! frame What ...
... look on Chatterton's disastrous end , Oh , ill starr'd youth , whom nature form'd in vain . With powers on Pindus ' splendid height to reign ! O dread example of what pangs await Young genius struggling with malignant fate ! frame What ...
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Page 13 - So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt...
Page 436 - For a lady's chamber meet : The lamp with twofold silver chain Is fastened to an angel's feet.
Page 236 - REMOTE, unfriended, melancholy, slow, Or by the lazy Scheld or wandering Po ; Or onward, where the rude Carinthian boor Against the houseless stranger shuts the door ; Or where Campania's plain forsaken lies, A weary waste expanding to the skies ; Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untravell'd fondly turns to thee ; Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain, And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.
Page 308 - Thus every good his native wilds impart, Imprints the patriot passion on his heart ; And e'en those ills that round his mansion rise Enhance the bliss his scanty fund supplies. Dear is that shed to which his soul conforms, And dear that hill which lifts him to the storms...
Page 236 - Where all the ruddy family around Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail; Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale; Or press the bashful stranger...
Page 238 - In these, ere triflers half their wish obtain, The toiling pleasure sickens into pain ; And, e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart, distrusting, asks if this be joy.
Page 311 - The life of Dr. Parnell is a task which I should very willingly decline, since it has been lately written by Goldsmith, a man of such variety of powers, and such felicity of performance, that he always seemed to do best that which he was doing; a man who had the art of being minute without tediousness, and general without confusion; whose language was copious without exuberance, exact without constraint, and easy without weakness.
Page 435 - A little child, a limber elf, Singing, dancing to itself, A fairy thing with red round cheeks, That always finds, and never seeks, Makes such a vision to the sight As fills a father's eyes with light...
Page 12 - A blank, my lord. She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i...