The New-York Review, Volume 7George Dearborn & Company, 1840 |
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... thought of the materials or the ground ; they had brick for stone , and slime for mortar , and they were to rear up a city and a tower whose top should reach to heaven , and whose foundations should be as immo- vable as the earth ...
... thought of the materials or the ground ; they had brick for stone , and slime for mortar , and they were to rear up a city and a tower whose top should reach to heaven , and whose foundations should be as immo- vable as the earth ...
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... thought . Paris is the capital of the democratic , no less than of the polite world ; as much so and more than Athens ever was . The forms of royalty are , to a certain extent , kept up , but there is no reve- rence left for them . The ...
... thought . Paris is the capital of the democratic , no less than of the polite world ; as much so and more than Athens ever was . The forms of royalty are , to a certain extent , kept up , but there is no reve- rence left for them . The ...
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... thoughts upon the existing governments of his country , or built one of those castles in the air , called an " idea of a per- fect commonwealth . " It is , indeed , from such things , even more than from the events of Grecian story , or ...
... thoughts upon the existing governments of his country , or built one of those castles in the air , called an " idea of a per- fect commonwealth . " It is , indeed , from such things , even more than from the events of Grecian story , or ...
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... thought and exten- sive observation , in his Philosophy of Politics . Heraclides Ponticus , from the age in which he lived , and still more from a passage in Cicero , ‡ we take to have been a writer of infe- rior value , inasmuch as a ...
... thought and exten- sive observation , in his Philosophy of Politics . Heraclides Ponticus , from the age in which he lived , and still more from a passage in Cicero , ‡ we take to have been a writer of infe- rior value , inasmuch as a ...
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... thought revealed rather than expressed in sentences of a pregnant , and sometimes obscure brevity , seems in harmony with his dark and terrible subject , like the famous words upon the gate of hell- * Euripides . Queste parole di colore ...
... thought revealed rather than expressed in sentences of a pregnant , and sometimes obscure brevity , seems in harmony with his dark and terrible subject , like the famous words upon the gate of hell- * Euripides . Queste parole di colore ...
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Page 12 - The secrets of the hoary deep; a dark Illimitable ocean, without bound, Without dimension, where length, breadth, and height, And time, and place are lost...
Page 184 - Sir Walter breathed his last, in the presence of all his children. It was a beautiful day — so warm, that every window was wide open — and so perfectly still, that the sound of all others most delicious to his ear, the gentle ripple of the Tweed over its pebbles, was distinctly audible as we knelt around the bed, and his eldest son kissed and closed his eyes.
Page 363 - I rejoice that the grave has not closed upon me; that I am still alive to lift up my voice against the dismemberment of this ancient and most noble monarchy! Pressed down as I am by the hand of infirmity, I am little able to assist my country in this most perilous conjuncture; but, my Lords, while I have sense and memory, I will never consent to deprive the royal offspring of the House of Brunswick, the heirs of the Princess Sophia, of their fairest inheritance.
Page 375 - It may, by metaphor, apply itself Unto the general disposition ; As when some one peculiar quality Doth so possess a man, that it doth draw All his affects, his spirits, and his powers, In their confluctions, all to run one way, This may be truly said to be a humour.
Page 166 - ... degraded rather than exalted by an attempt to reward virtue with temporal prosperity. Such is not the recompense which providence has deemed worthy of suffering merit ; and it is a dangerous and fatal doctrine to teach young persons, the most common readers of romance, that rectitude of conduct and of principle are either naturally allied with, or adequately rewarded by, the gratification of our passions, or attainment of our wishes. In a word, if a virtuous and self-denied...
Page 147 - By civil rage and rancour fell. The rural pipe and merry lay No more shall cheer the happy day : No social scenes of gay delight Beguile the dreary winter night : No strains, but those of sorrow flow, And nought be heard but sounds of woe, While the pale phantoms of the slain Glide nightly o'er the silent plain.
Page 171 - They chant their artless notes in simple guise; They tune their hearts, by far the noblest aim : Perhaps ' Dundee's ' wild warbling measures rise, Or plaintive *• Martyrs...
Page 166 - ... a character of a highly virtuous and lofty stamp, is degraded rather than exalted by an attempt to reward virtue with temporal prosperity. Such is not the recompense which Providence has deemed worthy of suffering merit...
Page 364 - Shall this great kingdom, that has survived whole and entire the Danish depredations, the Scottish inroads, and the Norman conquest; that has stood the threatened invasion of the Spanish Armada, now fall prostrate before the House of Bourbon? Surely, my lords, this nation is no longer what it was! Shall a people that seventeen years ago was the terror of the world, now stoop so low as to tell its ancient inveterate enemy, take all we have, only give us peace?
Page 70 - And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you; 12 That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.