New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 2Henry Colburn, 1821 |
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... mind strongly susceptible of poetry may , possibly , build more assurance to itself , than it may be able to communicate to others . For the perception of harmonious gran- deur , in a poem , is a matter of taste more than demonstration ...
... mind strongly susceptible of poetry may , possibly , build more assurance to itself , than it may be able to communicate to others . For the perception of harmonious gran- deur , in a poem , is a matter of taste more than demonstration ...
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... mind undistracted by other pursuits , as the support of his ambition and existence . If we consider these circumstances , we shall hardly believe that a man of genius could be prevented from composing the Homeric works , in a period ...
... mind undistracted by other pursuits , as the support of his ambition and existence . If we consider these circumstances , we shall hardly believe that a man of genius could be prevented from composing the Homeric works , in a period ...
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... mind are carefully scanned on both sides . There are bullies in mental no less than in animal courage : and I have sometimes been in danger of committing myself with a pompous fool that was hazarding propositions in the evening , which ...
... mind are carefully scanned on both sides . There are bullies in mental no less than in animal courage : and I have sometimes been in danger of committing myself with a pompous fool that was hazarding propositions in the evening , which ...
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... mind . With my friends , who have never left their coun- try , any endeavour to break and counteract such habits would be per- fectly hopeless . Despondency drives them into a course of reading and thinking , which leads only to ...
... mind . With my friends , who have never left their coun- try , any endeavour to break and counteract such habits would be per- fectly hopeless . Despondency drives them into a course of reading and thinking , which leads only to ...
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... mind should lie concealed till some future period , probably after my death , when my country might be prépared to learn and lament the wrongs she has , for ages , done to her children . But , since you have provided against discovery ...
... mind should lie concealed till some future period , probably after my death , when my country might be prépared to learn and lament the wrongs she has , for ages , done to her children . But , since you have provided against discovery ...
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Page 292 - So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the Fruit, she pluck'd, she eat: Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her Works gave signs of woe, That all was lost.
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Page 60 - Lo, the poor Indian ! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way...
Page 128 - Tell us, for doubtless thou canst recollect, To whom should we assign the Sphinx's fame ? Was Cheops or Cephrenes architect Of either pyramid that bears his name ? Is Pompey's pillar really a misnomer ? Had Thebes a hundred gates, as sung by Homer...
Page 265 - Who, that surveys this span of earth we press, — This speck of life in time's great wilderness, This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas, The past, the future, two eternities ! — Would sully the bright spot, or leave it bare, When he might build him a proud temple there A name that long shall hallow all its space, And be each purer soul's high resting-place?
Page 103 - His doubts might have been indeed pardoned ; for, except perhaps the flying fish, there was no race existing on the earth, in the air, or the waters, who were the object of such an unintermitting, general, and relentless persecution as the Jews of this period. Upon the slightest and most unreasonable pretences, as well as upon accusations the most absurd and groundless, their persons and property were exposed to every turn of popular fury...
Page 58 - But worthier still of note Are those fraternal Four of Borrowdale, Joined in one solemn and capacious grove ; Huge trunks ! and each particular trunk a growth Of intertwisted fibres serpentine Up-coiling, and inveterately convolved...
Page 305 - Out of my grief and my impatience Answer'd neglectingly, I know not what, He should, or he should not ; for he made me mad To see him shine so brisk, and smell so sweet, And talk so like a waiting-gentlewoman...
Page 465 - See here, what a mighty pretty Horace I have in my pocket ! what if you amused yourself in turning an ode, till we mount again? Lord! if you pleased, what a clever Miscellany might you make at leisure hours ?
Page 366 - O friendly to the best pursuits of man, Friendly to thought, to virtue, and to peace...