The London Quarterly Review, Volume 11Theodore Foster, 1814 |
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... critic laboriously traces a few faint marks of imitation in the spirit of the age , in the works of worthless and forgotten contemporaries , or lastly in the more splendid and durable models of antiquity , he must confess with some ...
... critic laboriously traces a few faint marks of imitation in the spirit of the age , in the works of worthless and forgotten contemporaries , or lastly in the more splendid and durable models of antiquity , he must confess with some ...
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... critic is the first who has discovered in it a fault of conception , which we are not altogether disposed to admit . It is in the lines , Fece mi la divina potestate , La somma sapientia e il primo amore . ' Divine power and supreme ...
... critic is the first who has discovered in it a fault of conception , which we are not altogether disposed to admit . It is in the lines , Fece mi la divina potestate , La somma sapientia e il primo amore . ' Divine power and supreme ...
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... critic can be found so superior to the influence of his name and authority as to feel , like M. Ginguené , the real charac- ter of a poet whom he has affected to consign to the perpetual contempt of an enlightened age and nation . Il ne ...
... critic can be found so superior to the influence of his name and authority as to feel , like M. Ginguené , the real charac- ter of a poet whom he has affected to consign to the perpetual contempt of an enlightened age and nation . Il ne ...
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... criticism to maintain that the poetry so constituted could not , in the nature of things , be the genuine language of the heart . ' On voit qu'il ne voulut point , comme les poëtes anciens , peindre Ics effets extérieurs de la passion ...
... criticism to maintain that the poetry so constituted could not , in the nature of things , be the genuine language of the heart . ' On voit qu'il ne voulut point , comme les poëtes anciens , peindre Ics effets extérieurs de la passion ...
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... critic , the superiority of these over the rest , can on- ly be understood relatively to the style , the delicacy of the ex- pressions , and the harmony , the melodious enchainment of the words , the rhymes , and the measures . ' 6 C ...
... critic , the superiority of these over the rest , can on- ly be understood relatively to the style , the delicacy of the ex- pressions , and the harmony , the melodious enchainment of the words , the rhymes , and the measures . ' 6 C ...
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Page 429 - How gloriously her gallant course she goes ! Her white wings flying — never from her foes — She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife.
Page 314 - For wheresoe'er I turn my ravish'd eyes, gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise, poetic fields encompass me around, and still I seem to tread on classic ground...
Page 192 - he did not beg a long life of God for any other reason, " but to live to finish his three remaining books of Polity ; " and then, Lord, let thy servant depart in peace;" which was his usual expression.
Page 493 - A man — the monarch of his mind. Now taste and try this temper, Sirs, Mood it, and brood it in your breast ; Or if ye ween, for worldly stirs That man does right to mar his rest, Let me be *deft and debonair, I am content, I do not care.
Page 136 - He called forth the latent virtues of the human heart, and taught men to discover in themselves a mine of charity, of which the proprietors had been unconscious. In feeding the lamp of charity, he has almost exhausted the lamp of life.
Page 497 - Tell them, I AM, JEHOVAH said To MOSES; while earth heard in dread, And, smitten to the heart, At once above, beneath, around, All Nature, without voice or sound, Replied, "O LORD, THOU ART.
Page 222 - The Report of the Select Committee of the House of Commons, appointed to inquire into the state of the...
Page 371 - Awake on your hills, on your islands awake, Brave sons of the mountain, the frith, and the lake ! 'Tis the bugle — but not for the chase is the call ; 'Tis the pibroch's shrill summons — but not to the hall. 'Tis the summons of heroes for conquest or death. When the banners are blazing on mountain and heath ; They call to the dirk, the claymore, and the targe, To the march and the muster, the line and the charge.
Page 314 - Now my weary lips I close: Leave me, leave me to repose.
Page 513 - THE BORDER ANTIQUITIES OF ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND, comprising Specimens of Architecture and Sculpture, and other Vestiges of Former Ages, accompanied by Descriptions. Together with Illustrations of remarkable Incidents in Border History and Tradition, and Original Poetry.