The London Quarterly Review, Volume 11Theodore Foster, 1814 |
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... feeling and expression , together with the substitution of false refinement and metaphysical mysti- cism , has always been the sin that most easily beset its votaries ; it is , therefore , on account of their general applicability to ...
... feeling and expression , together with the substitution of false refinement and metaphysical mysti- cism , has always been the sin that most easily beset its votaries ; it is , therefore , on account of their general applicability to ...
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... feelings which they are calculated to inspire , as can hardly be equalled by those of any poets in the most advanced period of mental luxury and refinement . The cloud of anger and indignation that for a moment obscures the ...
... feelings which they are calculated to inspire , as can hardly be equalled by those of any poets in the most advanced period of mental luxury and refinement . The cloud of anger and indignation that for a moment obscures the ...
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... feeling , the judgment , and the fancy . ' Le Paradis n'offre presqu'aucune de ces ressources . Tout y est éclat et lumière . Une contemplation intellectuelle y est la seule jouissance . Des solutions de difficultés et des explications ...
... feeling , the judgment , and the fancy . ' Le Paradis n'offre presqu'aucune de ces ressources . Tout y est éclat et lumière . Une contemplation intellectuelle y est la seule jouissance . Des solutions de difficultés et des explications ...
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... feelings , and to amuse that description of readers which was incapable of understanding the more exalted efforts of his genius , conveyed in a nobler and more durable language . The fame which they ob- tained even in his life - time ...
... feelings , and to amuse that description of readers which was incapable of understanding the more exalted efforts of his genius , conveyed in a nobler and more durable language . The fame which they ob- tained even in his life - time ...
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... feeling , perhaps , than solidity of judgment , as to the real advantages derived to Italian literature from the cultivation of the learned languages . How highly at the same time , must our estimate of the three great founders of the ...
... feeling , perhaps , than solidity of judgment , as to the real advantages derived to Italian literature from the cultivation of the learned languages . How highly at the same time , must our estimate of the three great founders of the ...
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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.