American Quarterly Review, Volume 21Carey, Lea & Carey, 1837 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 74
Page 28
... admiration has been caught altogether by surprise , and he been induced to waste his praise and his time upon sheer nonsense . 1 See American Quarterly Review , No. 39 . ⚫ Notwithstanding all this , few , very few would 28 [ March ...
... admiration has been caught altogether by surprise , and he been induced to waste his praise and his time upon sheer nonsense . 1 See American Quarterly Review , No. 39 . ⚫ Notwithstanding all this , few , very few would 28 [ March ...
Page 32
... admired the Greeks and the Romans ; they sought after and studied their works , but , instead of suf- fering themselves to be mastered by , they mastered them , moulded them to their will , rendering them French , and heightening their ...
... admired the Greeks and the Romans ; they sought after and studied their works , but , instead of suf- fering themselves to be mastered by , they mastered them , moulded them to their will , rendering them French , and heightening their ...
Page 39
... admiring country , their splen- dour was duly acknowledged , and they have been worshipped unceasingly since . The universality of Shakspeare's talent , our author thinks , has tended to corrupt dramatic literature , and founded the ...
... admiring country , their splen- dour was duly acknowledged , and they have been worshipped unceasingly since . The universality of Shakspeare's talent , our author thinks , has tended to corrupt dramatic literature , and founded the ...
Page 41
... his leisure , as Montesquieu says of Alexander . " For him he professes extreme admiration ; and yet , from certain VOL . XXI . NO . 41 . 6 " As to the means of illusion , some idea 1837. ] 41 Chateaubriand's Sketches .
... his leisure , as Montesquieu says of Alexander . " For him he professes extreme admiration ; and yet , from certain VOL . XXI . NO . 41 . 6 " As to the means of illusion , some idea 1837. ] 41 Chateaubriand's Sketches .
Page 48
... admiration ? In admitting all suppo- sitions , in reasoning on the truths or the errors with which the human mind is penetrated or imbued , what were to Shakspeare a renown whose echoes cannot reach him ? If a Christian , amidst eternal ...
... admiration ? In admitting all suppo- sitions , in reasoning on the truths or the errors with which the human mind is penetrated or imbued , what were to Shakspeare a renown whose echoes cannot reach him ? If a Christian , amidst eternal ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
admiration Adrastus agricultural Algiers American animal appears Bainbridge Ballymahon bark beautiful Bedouin called cause character Claude Frollo Colonel Burr colour command drama Edom effect England English Euripides excitement eyes fame favour feelings fluid France French friends fruit gases genius give Goldsmith hand heart honour Huguenots human Idumea imagination interest Jefferson labour letter limbs literary live Lord Byron lottery matter ment Milton mind Mirabeau Molière moral nature never Northwest Company object OLIVER GOLDSMITH opera party pass passion pear person plant poet poetic poetry political possess present principle produce protestantism Quasimodo racter reader received regard remarks Robert le Diable scene sentiment Shakspeare ship society soil speak spirit taste thing thought tion tree truth United usury vessels virtue whole William Bainbridge writer XXI.-NO
Popular passages
Page 393 - AT midnight, in his guarded tent, The Turk was dreaming of the hour When Greece, her knee in suppliance bent, Should tremble at his power ; In dreams, through camp and court, he bore The trophies of a conqueror ; In dreams his song of triumph heard. Then wore his monarch's signet ring, Then pressed that monarch's throne — a King ; As wild his thoughts, and gay of wing, As Eden's garden bird.
Page 5 - Where the great Sun begins his state Robed in flames and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight; While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrow'd land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.
Page 292 - To envelop and contain celestial spirits. Never was such a sudden scholar made ; Never came reformation in a flood, With such a heady...
Page 490 - How often have I paused on every charm, The sheltered cot, the cultivated farm, The never-failing brook, the busy mill, The decent church that topt the neighbouring hill, The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade For talking age and whispering lovers made!
Page 43 - Hell heard the unsufferable noise, Hell saw Heaven ruining from Heaven, and would have fled Affrighted; but strict Fate had cast too deep Her dark foundations, and too fast had bound.
Page 491 - Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head. Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossom'd furze unprofitably gay, There, in his noisy mansion, skill'd to rule, The village master taught his little school...
Page 437 - But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it ; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it : and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.
Page 477 - Your last letter, I repeat it, was too short ; you should have given me your opinion of the design of the heroi-comical poem which I sent you. You remember I intended to introduce the hero of the poem as lying in a paltry alehouse. You may take the following specimen of the manner, which I flatter myself is quite original. The room in which he lies may be described somewhat...
Page 393 - An hour passed on — the Turk awoke — That bright dream was his last; He woke to hear his sentries shriek, " To arms! they come! the Greek ! the Greek...
Page 134 - Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury : unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury ; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury...