Analectic Magazine: Comprising Original Reviews, Biography, Analytical Abstracts of New Publications, Translations from French Journals, and Selections from the Most Esteemed British Review, Volume 12James Maxwell, 1818 |
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... appear , though we had found much more to condemn , and less to applaud in his work . While we bear at once emphatic testimony to the tone of lofty and amiable feeling which pervades it ; to the elegant studies and tastes which it ...
... appear , though we had found much more to condemn , and less to applaud in his work . While we bear at once emphatic testimony to the tone of lofty and amiable feeling which pervades it ; to the elegant studies and tastes which it ...
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... appears in all the na- kedness of honest nature . Indeed , the female character is , in every country , half the work ... appear in fashionable company or before God without such an attendant . She leaves her husband and children at home ...
... appears in all the na- kedness of honest nature . Indeed , the female character is , in every country , half the work ... appear in fashionable company or before God without such an attendant . She leaves her husband and children at home ...
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... appear in public without her lover , that the Italians ceased to be men . " * Another fatal innovation of the seventeenth century , was the es- tablishment of a rigid law of primogeniture and entail , by which the younger sons and ...
... appear in public without her lover , that the Italians ceased to be men . " * Another fatal innovation of the seventeenth century , was the es- tablishment of a rigid law of primogeniture and entail , by which the younger sons and ...
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... appear to be ready to engage in unexampled feats of libertinism . An impure fire that is contagious , appears to in- fect the very atmosphere of the room , and to cheat the senses with illusions . The endearing expressions of cara and ...
... appear to be ready to engage in unexampled feats of libertinism . An impure fire that is contagious , appears to in- fect the very atmosphere of the room , and to cheat the senses with illusions . The endearing expressions of cara and ...
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... appear with all her towers , domes and palaces , floating upon the waves , over which she still seemed to reign ... appears to have transformed human life at Venice , into something little better than the vision of a waking dream . Yet ...
... appear with all her towers , domes and palaces , floating upon the waves , over which she still seemed to reign ... appears to have transformed human life at Venice , into something little better than the vision of a waking dream . Yet ...
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Page 81 - Plucking ripe clusters from the tender shoots ; Their port was more than human, as they stood : I took it for a faery vision Of some gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play i
Page 166 - The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre, Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order...
Page 349 - Cataraguy to be surveyed and marked according to the said provisions ; the said commissioners shall make a map of the said boundary, and annex to it a declaration under their hands and seals, certifying it to be the true map of the said boundary, and particularizing the latitude and longitude of the north-west angle of Nova Scotia, of the north-westernmost head of Connecticut river, and of such other points of the said boundary as they may deem proper.
Page 186 - He look'd, and saw a sable Sorc'rer rise, Swift to whose hand a winged volume flies: All sudden, Gorgons hiss, and Dragons glare, And ten-horn'd fiends and Giants rush to war. Hell rises, Heav'n descends, and dance on Earth, Gods, imps, and monsters, music, rage, and mirth, A fire, a jig, a battle, and a ball, Till one wide Conflagration swallows all.
Page 349 - Croix River to the highlands; along the said highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River...
Page 165 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
Page 107 - England! with all thy faults I love thee still.' I said at Calais, and have not forgot it; I like to speak and lucubrate my fill; I like the government (but that is not it); I like the freedom of the press and quill; I like the Habeas Corpus (when we've got it); I like a parliamentary debate, Particularly when 'tis not too late...
Page 402 - Should peace arrive after another campaign or two, and afford us a little leisure, I should be happy to see your Excellency in Europe, and to accompany you, if my age and strength would permit, in visiting some of its ancient and most famous kingdoms. You would, on this side of the sea, enjoy the great reputation you have...