The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ..., Volume 91, Part 1Edw. Cave, 1736-[1868], 1821 - English essays |
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... feel a con- scious pride on viewing the successful result of our labours . SYLVANUS URBAN has not only accumulated a mass of information more general and extended than any contemporary Magazine contains ; but he still possesses ...
... feel a con- scious pride on viewing the successful result of our labours . SYLVANUS URBAN has not only accumulated a mass of information more general and extended than any contemporary Magazine contains ; but he still possesses ...
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... feeling and of thought . The period which included the reign of Queen Anne in England , and of Louis the Fourteenth in France , has long been considered as having been unusually fruitful in the production of men of genius and of taste ...
... feeling and of thought . The period which included the reign of Queen Anne in England , and of Louis the Fourteenth in France , has long been considered as having been unusually fruitful in the production of men of genius and of taste ...
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... feeling an awkward twinge . Criticism in the days of Sir Thomas More was merely Oral , if we except the labours of the Com- mentators ; but had he lived to read the numerous Reviews , by which public opinion is directed , he would have ...
... feeling an awkward twinge . Criticism in the days of Sir Thomas More was merely Oral , if we except the labours of the Com- mentators ; but had he lived to read the numerous Reviews , by which public opinion is directed , he would have ...
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... feeling and of sentiment which gains utterance , not perhaps in the chas- lised and measured flow of eloquence , which ... feel a sud- den impulse within them ( although that impulse may possibly never re- alize any active or permanent ...
... feeling and of sentiment which gains utterance , not perhaps in the chas- lised and measured flow of eloquence , which ... feel a sud- den impulse within them ( although that impulse may possibly never re- alize any active or permanent ...
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... feel , and all who could appreciate pathos of sen- timent , and simplicity of description , have admired that mind which , hav- ing submitted to the menial drudg- ery , and all the servile offices of a rustic , could enroll them in the ...
... feel , and all who could appreciate pathos of sen- timent , and simplicity of description , have admired that mind which , hav- ing submitted to the menial drudg- ery , and all the servile offices of a rustic , could enroll them in the ...
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Page 106 - When that this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom for it was too small a bound; But now two paces of the vilest earth Is room enough.
Page 352 - The mother of Sisera looked out at a window and cried through the lattice Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots?
Page 30 - From Heaven my strains begin: from Heaven descends The flame of genius to the human breast, And love and beauty, and poetic joy And inspiration. Ere the radiant sun Sprang from the east, or 'mid the vault of night The moon suspended her serener lamp; Ere mountains, woods, or streams...
Page 8 - The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart : and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.
Page 66 - Superior beings, when of late they saw A mortal man unfold all nature's law, Admir'd such wisdom in an earthly shape, And shew'da Newton as we shew an ape.
Page 136 - The lonely mountains o'er and the resounding shore a voice of weeping heard and loud lament ; from haunted spring and dale edged with poplar pale the parting Genius is with sighing sent; with flower-inwoven tresses torn the nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn.
Page 397 - He has nothing for it but to abdicate, and run from an evil which he can neither prevent nor mollify. The husband gone, the ceremony begins. The walls are...
Page 8 - Surely the Lord is in this place. This is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.
Page 74 - I have recently received so many testimonies from all parts of my kingdom ; and which, whilst it is most grateful to the strongest feelings of my heart, I shall ever consider as the best and surest safeguard of my throne.
Page 398 - ... inasmuch as the defendant was in the exercise of a legal right, and not answerable for the consequences ; and so the poor gentleman was doubly nonsuited, for he lost not only his suit of clothes, but his suit at law.