The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ..., Volume 157Edw. Cave, 1736-[1868], 1835 - English essays |
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... mind of more than ordinary vigour . She used to tell her younger relations , that they would have known how to value Gospel privileges , had they lived like her , in the days of proscrip- tion and persecution , when at midnight the ...
... mind of more than ordinary vigour . She used to tell her younger relations , that they would have known how to value Gospel privileges , had they lived like her , in the days of proscrip- tion and persecution , when at midnight the ...
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... mind to the instruction and improvement of her fellow - creatures , by word and deed , addressing the wealthy and the great in a variety of eloquent and well - reasoned publications ; instructing the poor and needy by exertions that ...
... mind to the instruction and improvement of her fellow - creatures , by word and deed , addressing the wealthy and the great in a variety of eloquent and well - reasoned publications ; instructing the poor and needy by exertions that ...
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... mind , of whose departure from the living we are now speaking ; if a cloud , a dimness , passed across the serene ... minds , that her task was done before the night of life had descended , and for a few seasons she was left upon earth ...
... mind , of whose departure from the living we are now speaking ; if a cloud , a dimness , passed across the serene ... minds , that her task was done before the night of life had descended , and for a few seasons she was left upon earth ...
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... mind evinced in the later letters , exhibits a most afflicting spec- tacle ; we watch , as we go along , expiring genius . Warburton ( Lett . 3. ) considers Petronius's curiosa felicitas , as consisting in using the simplest language ...
... mind evinced in the later letters , exhibits a most afflicting spec- tacle ; we watch , as we go along , expiring genius . Warburton ( Lett . 3. ) considers Petronius's curiosa felicitas , as consisting in using the simplest language ...
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... mind were extraordinary , his elocution was flowing and spirited ; and after his highest preferment , in the few instances when he preserved reason and decency , the native vigour of his intellect shone forth in his judgment , and threw ...
... mind were extraordinary , his elocution was flowing and spirited ; and after his highest preferment , in the few instances when he preserved reason and decency , the native vigour of his intellect shone forth in his judgment , and threw ...
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Page 527 - MYSTERIOUS Night! when our first parent knew Thee from report divine, and heard thy name, Did he not tremble for this lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue?
Page 285 - Whither, midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.
Page 285 - All day thy wings have fanned, At that far height, the cold thin atmosphere, Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome land, Though the dark night is near. And soon that toil shall end; Soon shalt thou find a summer home, and rest, And scream among thy fellows ; reeds shall bend, Soon, o'er thy sheltered nest.
Page 356 - ... active and public life with the attainment of that exact and various learning which is generally the portion only of the recluse student. He was distinguished as an advocate and a magistrate, and he composed the most valuable works on the law of his own country ; he was almost equally celebrated as an historian, a scholar, a poet, and a divine ; — a disinterested statesman, a philosophical lawyer, a patriot who united moderation with firmness, and a theologian who was taught candour by his...
Page 21 - Jotham, of piercing wit and pregnant thought,* Endued by nature, and by learning taught To move assemblies, who but only tried The worse awhile, then chose the better side; Nor chose alone, but turned the balance too— So much the weight of one brave man can do.
Page 357 - ... his character; and in the midst of all the hard trials and galling provocations of a turbulent political life, he never once deserted his friends when they were unfortunate, nor insulted his enemies when they were weak. In times of the most furious civil and religious faction he preserved his name unspotted, and he knew how to reconcile fidelity to his own party, with moderation towards his opponents.
Page 285 - Ah, passing few are they who speak, Wild stormy month! in praise of thee; Yet, though thy winds are loud and bleak, Thou art a welcome month to me. For thou, to northern lands, again The glad and glorious sun dost bring, And thou hast joined the gentle train And wear'st the gentle name of Spring.
Page 560 - For he who fights and runs away May live to fight another day ; But he who is in battle slain Can never rise and fight again.
Page 285 - Are just set out to meet the sea. The year's departing beauty hides Of wintry storms the sullen threat; But in thy sternest frown abides A look of kindly promise yet. Thou bring'st the hope of those calm skies. And that soft time of sunny showers, When the wide bloom, on earth that lies, Seems of a brighter world than ours.