The European Magazine, and London Review, Volume 70Philological Society of London, 1816 |
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... possessed of all those blessings which must make her happy in herself , and a happiness to all around her . To Her Royal Highness's recent union- with Prince LEOPOLD , it is unnecessary now to advert - farther than to repeat those ...
... possessed of all those blessings which must make her happy in herself , and a happiness to all around her . To Her Royal Highness's recent union- with Prince LEOPOLD , it is unnecessary now to advert - farther than to repeat those ...
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... possess it in some degree while we consider it . " A young man at the lowest corner of the table , with a neglected coat and meagre countenance , replied eagerly , " Can any one doubt what happiness is ? It is a quick and constant sense ...
... possess it in some degree while we consider it . " A young man at the lowest corner of the table , with a neglected coat and meagre countenance , replied eagerly , " Can any one doubt what happiness is ? It is a quick and constant sense ...
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... possesses- it is , however , but a point in a long and unequal line of desultory descant - or , rather , it is a beam of day - light piercing the clouds of a tempest of terror through which he is continually launching his bolts of ...
... possesses- it is , however , but a point in a long and unequal line of desultory descant - or , rather , it is a beam of day - light piercing the clouds of a tempest of terror through which he is continually launching his bolts of ...
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... possessed of beauties which are all withered as soon as the breath of a wife and a mother gives utterance to it . - But I would find an excuse for the author , as far as he would challenge consistency - Imogine had been uneducated , if ...
... possessed of beauties which are all withered as soon as the breath of a wife and a mother gives utterance to it . - But I would find an excuse for the author , as far as he would challenge consistency - Imogine had been uneducated , if ...
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... possess a commanding influence over numbers of his fellow - creatures , he wears beneath the borrowed robes of happy importance the worn - out visage of care and per- plexity . ป If we look for it in vain in the enjoy ment of power ...
... possess a commanding influence over numbers of his fellow - creatures , he wears beneath the borrowed robes of happy importance the worn - out visage of care and per- plexity . ป If we look for it in vain in the enjoy ment of power ...
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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...