Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 5; Volume 68John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell Leavitt, Throw and Company, 1867 |
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... persons and of events is clear , vivid , and life - like . His judgment is honest and penetrating . The style is so perfect that we should hardly wish to see a single word added , suppressed , or altered . If , in spite of all the ...
... persons and of events is clear , vivid , and life - like . His judgment is honest and penetrating . The style is so perfect that we should hardly wish to see a single word added , suppressed , or altered . If , in spite of all the ...
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... persons compete for the same objects . Such rivalry existed between the two princes , but it existed only dur- ing the earlier years of their reigns . It ceased perhaps immediately after the battle of Pavia , and did certainly not ...
... persons compete for the same objects . Such rivalry existed between the two princes , but it existed only dur- ing the earlier years of their reigns . It ceased perhaps immediately after the battle of Pavia , and did certainly not ...
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... persons who were the actors ; and even in the rare instances where they become visible to us , we can scarcely distinguish their features . They are hazy phantoms ; rather shad- owy embodiments of general ideas , than living men with ...
... persons who were the actors ; and even in the rare instances where they become visible to us , we can scarcely distinguish their features . They are hazy phantoms ; rather shad- owy embodiments of general ideas , than living men with ...
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... persons who are to be actors in the story . Even if the names are historical , the reader knows that the author of a novel or of a poem is not bound to adhere to histori- cally established facts . His curiosity to know how the story ...
... persons who are to be actors in the story . Even if the names are historical , the reader knows that the author of a novel or of a poem is not bound to adhere to histori- cally established facts . His curiosity to know how the story ...
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... persons whom they meet in the narrative . There is probably not a single person who knew not that Charles and not Francis was elected Emperor before he opened the Rivalité de Charles Quint et François Ier , by Mignet . The curiosity of ...
... persons whom they meet in the narrative . There is probably not a single person who knew not that Charles and not Francis was elected Emperor before he opened the Rivalité de Charles Quint et François Ier , by Mignet . The curiosity of ...
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Page 241 - For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ; who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.
Page 241 - For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called : but God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty...
Page 344 - This England never did, (nor never shall,) Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes are come home again, Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them : Nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true.
Page 346 - Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy contented least; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee, and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate: For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings, That then I scorn to change my state with kings.
Page 313 - AH, did you once see Shelley plain, And did he stop and speak to you And did you speak to him again ? How strange it seems and new...
Page 370 - A wizard of such dreaded fame That when, in Salamanca's cave, Him listed his magic wand to wave, The bells would ring in Notre Dame...
Page 501 - Did not he magnify the mind, show clear Just what it all meant? He would not discount life, as fools do here, Paid by instalment. He ventured neck or nothing - heaven's success Found, or earth's failure: 'Wilt thou trust death or not?
Page 297 - THERE is a book, who runs may read, Which heavenly truth imparts, And all the lore its scholars need, Pure eyes and Christian hearts.
Page 241 - ... as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
Page 241 - For the which cause I also suffer these things : nevertheless I am not ashamed : for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.