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... moral justice imposed upon us the duty of doing that which other journals have left undone , from what motives we presume not to conjecture . We have now the poem of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage com- plete , with its four cantos ; but ...
... moral justice imposed upon us the duty of doing that which other journals have left undone , from what motives we presume not to conjecture . We have now the poem of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage com- plete , with its four cantos ; but ...
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... moral principle - the virtuous constitution of the soul ! May genius rather be dumb than endanger the hopes of an hereafter , or even disturb the righteous dispositions of our present existence ! Let Childe Harold have his pilgrimage ...
... moral principle - the virtuous constitution of the soul ! May genius rather be dumb than endanger the hopes of an hereafter , or even disturb the righteous dispositions of our present existence ! Let Childe Harold have his pilgrimage ...
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... moral scope . As the matter stands , the only reparation made to man- kind for the contagious mischief of that unsocial sentimentalism , of which the Childe was the organ and the vehicle , is the plain avowal by the poet himself , in ...
... moral scope . As the matter stands , the only reparation made to man- kind for the contagious mischief of that unsocial sentimentalism , of which the Childe was the organ and the vehicle , is the plain avowal by the poet himself , in ...
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... moral condition of society . Courts such as those of Croesus , or Ptolemy , or Augustus , or Louis XIV . have generated the union of genius with flattery , ele- gance with debauchery : the political struggles and incessant warfare of ...
... moral condition of society . Courts such as those of Croesus , or Ptolemy , or Augustus , or Louis XIV . have generated the union of genius with flattery , ele- gance with debauchery : the political struggles and incessant warfare of ...
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... moral world . With the man we are describing , the prisoner at St. Helena is the eternal theme of lamentation ; Venice , Genoa , and all those states , where lust and murder , and state oppression , have pre- vailed in their most odious ...
... moral world . With the man we are describing , the prisoner at St. Helena is the eternal theme of lamentation ; Venice , Genoa , and all those states , where lust and murder , and state oppression , have pre- vailed in their most odious ...
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Page 212 - From you have I been absent in the spring, When proud-pied April, dress'd in all his trim, Hath put a spirit of youth in every thing, That heavy Saturn laugh'd and leap'd with him.
Page 382 - Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I show the salvation of God.
Page 309 - Father, who wouldest not the death of a sinner but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live...
Page 428 - Parma, the colony or province of Louisiana, with the same extent that it now has in the hands of Spain, and that it had when France possessed it ; and such as it should be after the treaties subsequently entered into between Spain and other States.
Page 22 - Where the car climb'd the Capitol; far and wide Temple and tower went down, nor left a site: Chaos of ruins! who shall trace the void, O'er the dim fragments cast a lunar light, And say, 'here was, or is,
Page 15 - My hopes of being remembered in my line With my land's language. If too fond and far These aspirations in their scope incline — If my fame should be, as my fortunes are, Of hasty growth and blight, and dull Oblivion bar...
Page 20 - 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 color as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till — 'tis gone — and all is gray.
Page 19 - Aside for ever: it may be a sound — A tone of music — summer's eve — or spring — A flower — the wind — the ocean — which shall wound, Striking the electric chain wherewith we are darkly bound...
Page 30 - Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," as a proof that the Coliseum was entire, when seen by the Anglo-Saxon pilgrims at the end of the seventh, or the beginning of the eighth century. A notice on the Coliseum may be seen in the " Historical Illustrations,
Page 371 - And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life ; and this life is in his Son. He that hath the Son, hath life ; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.