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... rotation , however interesting in a philosophical view , can only be regarded as
an object of pure curiosity , and not likely to lead to any useful or practical results .
Yet we think it befitting the character of a great maritime nation , to embrace ...
... rotation , however interesting in a philosophical view , can only be regarded as
an object of pure curiosity , and not likely to lead to any useful or practical results .
Yet we think it befitting the character of a great maritime nation , to embrace ...
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He knows , far better than we can tell him , what have been the most hallowed
objects of love and of passion to the souls of great poets in the most splendid
eras of poetry , - - - and he also knows well , that those objects , if worshipped by
him ...
He knows , far better than we can tell him , what have been the most hallowed
objects of love and of passion to the souls of great poets in the most splendid
eras of poetry , - - - and he also knows well , that those objects , if worshipped by
him ...
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The object of this work is to trace the progress of Europe I from the middle of the
fifth to the end of the fifteenth century ; from the establishment of Clovis in Gaul ,
to the invasion of Italy by Charles VIII . ; from the final settlement of the Barbarians
...
The object of this work is to trace the progress of Europe I from the middle of the
fifth to the end of the fifteenth century ; from the establishment of Clovis in Gaul ,
to the invasion of Italy by Charles VIII . ; from the final settlement of the Barbarians
...
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Every one may now be satisfied , that popular confidence can only be gained by
such a line of conduct as clearly shows that the true interests of the nation are its
ruling object . The scrambles for power among a few great families are no longer
...
Every one may now be satisfied , that popular confidence can only be gained by
such a line of conduct as clearly shows that the true interests of the nation are its
ruling object . The scrambles for power among a few great families are no longer
...
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This event was the avowed object of their operations ; not for the sake of the
emoluments and patronage connected with office , but for the sake of the
principles which they professed , and which could only be carried into effect by
the change of ...
This event was the avowed object of their operations ; not for the sake of the
emoluments and patronage connected with office , but for the sake of the
principles which they professed , and which could only be carried into effect by
the change of ...
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Page 116 - And I have loved thee, Ocean! and my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be Borne, like thy bubbles, onward: from a boy I wantoned with thy breakers — they to me Were a delight; and if the freshening sea Made them a terror — 'twas a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here.
Page 101 - The moon is up, and yet it is not night; Sunset divides the sky with her; a sea Of glory streams along the Alpine height Of blue Friuli's mountains; Heaven is free From clouds, but of all colours seems to be, — Melted to one vast Iris of the West, — Where the Day joins the past Eternity, While, on the other hand, meek Dian's crest Floats through the azure air — an island of the blest!
Page 115 - Dark-heaving — boundless, endless and sublime, The image of eternity, the throne Of the Invisible ; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made ; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Page 107 - And mounts in spray the skies, and thence again Returns in an unceasing shower, which round, With its unemptied cloud of gentle rain, Is an eternal April to the ground, Making it all one emerald; — how profound The gulf! and how the giant element From rock to rock leaps with delirious bound, Crushing the cliffs, which, downward worn and rent With his fierce footsteps, yield in chasms a fearful vent...
Page 107 - The roar of waters ! — from the headlong height Velino cleaves the wave-worn precipice ; The fall of waters ! rapid as the light The flashing mass foams shaking the abyss; The hell of waters ! where they howl and hiss, And boil in endless torture ; while the sweat Of their great agony, wrung out from this Their Phlegethon, curls round the rocks of jet That gird the gulf around, in pitiless horror set, LXX.
Page 192 - Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.
Page 115 - The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain A shadow of man's ravage, save his own, When, for a moment, like a drop of rain, He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown. His steps are not upon thy paths, — thy fields Are not a spoil for him...
Page 114 - It will not bear the brightness of the day, Which streams too much on all years, man, have reft away.
Page 116 - Ye ! who have traced the Pilgrim to the scene Which is his last, if in your memories dwell A thought which once was his, if on ye swell...
Page 109 - Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now; The very sepulchres lie tenantless Of their heroic dwellers: dost thou flow, Old Tiber! through a marble wilderness? Rise, with thy yellow waves, and mantle her distress.
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| Title | THE EDINBURGH REVIEW OF CRITICAL JOURNAL |
| Author | DAVID WILLISON |
| Published | 1818 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 9 Aug 2007 |
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