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As it is the wish of the Editors to render this Work a ReposiTORY of whatever may
be supposed to be most interesting to general readers , they beg leave to offer
one or two remarks , on what is new in the plan they have adopted , and on the ...
As it is the wish of the Editors to render this Work a ReposiTORY of whatever may
be supposed to be most interesting to general readers , they beg leave to offer
one or two remarks , on what is new in the plan they have adopted , and on the ...
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We must not sentiment that excites astonishment induce our readers , however ,
to beand wonder rather than sympathy : lieve that the public were as yet all aThe
author of these discourses is so greed in their opinion of Dr Chalmers ' well ...
We must not sentiment that excites astonishment induce our readers , however ,
to beand wonder rather than sympathy : lieve that the public were as yet all aThe
author of these discourses is so greed in their opinion of Dr Chalmers ' well ...
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sons , reason ty of the practice , are somewhat curió Revels , by Ben Jonson , I
find the folous in themselves , and worthy the lowing passage :perusal of your
readers . “ Merc . He will censure or disI find the distinction of seats , in re course
of ...
sons , reason ty of the practice , are somewhat curió Revels , by Ben Jonson , I
find the folous in themselves , and worthy the lowing passage :perusal of your
readers . “ Merc . He will censure or disI find the distinction of seats , in re course
of ...
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There is , we are persuaded , no class All these things would add little to of
readers to whom this book will not the size , while they would greatly inbe both
amusing and instructive . To crease the value of the publication . It those who
have ...
There is , we are persuaded , no class All these things would add little to of
readers to whom this book will not the size , while they would greatly inbe both
amusing and instructive . To crease the value of the publication . It those who
have ...
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from page 285. ) shippers ” and “ The Light of the When we gave our readers an ...
Lon- readers have not yet seen this delightdon , Longman and Co. 1817 . ful
romance , and will be obliged to us for an analysis of the “ Fire Wor( Concluded
from page 285. ) shippers ” and “ The Light of the When we gave our readers an ...
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Page 367 - Appear like mice; and yon' tall anchoring bark, Diminish'd to her cock; her cock, a buoy Almost too small for sight: The murmuring surge, That on the unnumber'd idle pebbles chafes, Cannot be heard so high: — I'll look no more; Lest my brain turn, and the deficient sight Topple down headlong.
Page 451 - Duncan is in his grave; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well; Treason has done his worst: nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing Can touch him further.
Page 367 - tis, to cast one's eyes so low! The crows and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon...
Page 272 - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest With his martial cloak around him.
Page 286 - Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains: They crowned him long ago, On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow.
Page 485 - Fanning their odoriferous wings, dispense Native perfumes, and whisper whence they stole Those balmy spoils. 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 279 - There was a time," he said, in mild, Heart-humbled tones, "thou blessed child! When, young and haply pure as thou, I looked and prayed like thee; but now — " He hung his head ; each nobler aim And hope and feeling, which had slept From boyhood's hour, that instant came Fresh o'er him, and he wept — he wept! Blest tears of soul-felt penitence; In whose benign, redeeming flow Is felt the first, the only sense Of guiltless joy that guilt can know. "There's a drop...
Page 280 - Then to advise how war may, best upheld, Move by her two main nerves, iron and gold, In all her equipage...
Page 288 - I do bear This punishment for both — that thou wilt be One of the blessed — and that I shall die ; For hitherto all hateful things conspire To bind me in existence — in a life Which makes me shrink from immortality — A future like the past.
Page 504 - Alas! — how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love ! Hearts that the world in vain had tried, And sorrow but more closely tied ; That stood the storm, when waves were rough, Yet in a sunny hour fall off, Like ships that have gone down at sea, When heaven was all tranquillity...