The Eclectic Review, Volume 10; Volume 28Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood 1818 |
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... object ; and then , gra- , tuitously thrown , as it were , into the account , he had , in long succession , those strange and solemn aspects of matter which arrested him often with an awful significance of the Sovereign Henderson's ...
... object ; and then , gra- , tuitously thrown , as it were , into the account , he had , in long succession , those strange and solemn aspects of matter which arrested him often with an awful significance of the Sovereign Henderson's ...
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... object . Had I come a month sooner , I should have arrived in the very middle of what is called the Handels tid , or period of traffic , when several hundreds of the inhabitants repair to this place from all quar- ters of the island ...
... object . Had I come a month sooner , I should have arrived in the very middle of what is called the Handels tid , or period of traffic , when several hundreds of the inhabitants repair to this place from all quar- ters of the island ...
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... object , stripped of all that indefiniteness which gave it the dangerous power of fascinating many who would shrink from the naked reality , may still have charms for the imaginations of a few whose sterner taste , reject- ing the mere ...
... object , stripped of all that indefiniteness which gave it the dangerous power of fascinating many who would shrink from the naked reality , may still have charms for the imaginations of a few whose sterner taste , reject- ing the mere ...
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... object worthy a convention of sovereigns . ' Canto the Fourth . By Lord Byron , 8vo . pp . 257. Price 12s . 1818 . L ' ITTLE more than a third part of this volume is occupied with the poem of Childe Harold . The remainder , with the ...
... object worthy a convention of sovereigns . ' Canto the Fourth . By Lord Byron , 8vo . pp . 257. Price 12s . 1818 . L ' ITTLE more than a third part of this volume is occupied with the poem of Childe Harold . The remainder , with the ...
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... object is amusing and instructive . It has indeed few claims to originality , since it is a somewhat close imitation of se- veral works of far superior merit , which appeared a few years since . The Author has not displayed much ...
... object is amusing and instructive . It has indeed few claims to originality , since it is a somewhat close imitation of se- veral works of far superior merit , which appeared a few years since . The Author has not displayed much ...
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Page 341 - God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you: and to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, in flaming fire, taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ...
Page 54 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time Calm or convulsed — in breeze, or gale, or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime 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...
Page 279 - AND after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power, unto the Lord our God: for true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.
Page 81 - Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves ; for they watch for your souls as they that must give account; that they may do it with joy, and not with grief.
Page 49 - In Venice Tasso's echoes are no more, And silent rows the songless gondolier ; Her palaces are crumbling to the shore, And music meets not always now the ear, Those days are gone — but Beauty still is here. States fall, arts fade — but Nature doth not die: Nor yet forget how Venice once was dear, 18 The pleasant place of all festivity, The revel of the earth, the masque of Italy...
Page 53 - Fill'd with the face of heaven, which, from afar, Comes down upon the waters ; all its hues, From the rich sunset to the rising star, Their magical variety diffuse : And now they change ; a paler shadow strews Its mantle o'er the mountains ; parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new colour as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till — 'tis gone — and all is gray.
Page 579 - My prime of youth is but a frost of cares; My feast of joy is but a dish of pain; My crop of corn is but a field of tares; And all my good is but vain hope of gain; The day is fled, and yet I saw no sun; And now I live, and now my life is done.
Page 403 - And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.
Page 50 - The Niobe of nations, — there she stands, Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe ; An empty urn within her withered hands, Whose holy dust was scattered long ago ; The Scipios...
Page 279 - And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee ; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee : for thy merchants were the great men of the earth ; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived. 24 And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.