The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Volume 82Archibald Constable and Company, 1818 - English literature |
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... mind , -and have done more to enlighten the un- derstandings of our countrymen , than those who have not witnessed the powers of this engine could have sup- posed it likely to accomplish . But although criticism might have been regarded ...
... mind , -and have done more to enlighten the un- derstandings of our countrymen , than those who have not witnessed the powers of this engine could have sup- posed it likely to accomplish . But although criticism might have been regarded ...
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... mind , we might probably have wished that the di- rector of our taste had been more deeply imbued with the science ... minds of men are , accordingly , set in keen opposition respecting the merits and prospects of the contending ri- vals ...
... mind , we might probably have wished that the di- rector of our taste had been more deeply imbued with the science ... minds of men are , accordingly , set in keen opposition respecting the merits and prospects of the contending ri- vals ...
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... mind . A second age of poetry has arisen in England , because enthusiasm is not there extinct , and because nature , love , and country , al- ways exercise great power there . Cowper , lately , and now Rogers , Moore , Thomas Campbell ...
... mind . A second age of poetry has arisen in England , because enthusiasm is not there extinct , and because nature , love , and country , al- ways exercise great power there . Cowper , lately , and now Rogers , Moore , Thomas Campbell ...
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... mind which belongs to the poet of whose genius Mr Hazlitt has formed so inadequate a conception . Other votaries of the Muse seem to feel occasionally the inspiration of their divinity , and there is none of them who does not , in such ...
... mind which belongs to the poet of whose genius Mr Hazlitt has formed so inadequate a conception . Other votaries of the Muse seem to feel occasionally the inspiration of their divinity , and there is none of them who does not , in such ...
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... mind , -and , provided we have some general idea of their merits and subjects , we are satisfied that we have done them no injustice by the hasty perusal we have thought it pro- per however , that there are few passages in to bestow on ...
... mind , -and , provided we have some general idea of their merits and subjects , we are satisfied that we have done them no injustice by the hasty perusal we have thought it pro- per however , that there are few passages in to bestow on ...
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Page 323 - For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man. "For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man. 'Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.
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Page 53 - Must, full as much, some other way discount. The Hebrew, Chaldee, and the Syriac, Do, like their letters, set men's reason back, And turn their wits that strive to understand it (Like those that write the characters) lefthanded ; Yet he that is but able to express No sense at all in several languages, Will pass for learnedcr than he that's known To speak the strongest reason in his own.
Page 279 - Highness is further pleased, in the name and on the behalf of his Majesty, and by and with the advice...