The British Review, and London Critical Journal, Volume 6Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1815 - English literature |
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... less resort to this divided application of the mean- ing than either Dr. Lowth or Dr. Horne , and in this respect he appears to us to have improved upon those able and excellent ex- positors . For wherever a simple prophetical sense can ...
... less resort to this divided application of the mean- ing than either Dr. Lowth or Dr. Horne , and in this respect he appears to us to have improved upon those able and excellent ex- positors . For wherever a simple prophetical sense can ...
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... less frequently obtrude themselves , and the colours of mortal misery and grandeur fade away in the presence of the incarnate God . In this species of scenic poem the ineffable Author of our salvation performs , in general , the pre ...
... less frequently obtrude themselves , and the colours of mortal misery and grandeur fade away in the presence of the incarnate God . In this species of scenic poem the ineffable Author of our salvation performs , in general , the pre ...
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... less harmonious ; and sometimes , though rarely , has innovated from a seeming capriciousness of change , where the venerable beauty of the old translation , no less than its precision , ought for ever to have protected it from " the ...
... less harmonious ; and sometimes , though rarely , has innovated from a seeming capriciousness of change , where the venerable beauty of the old translation , no less than its precision , ought for ever to have protected it from " the ...
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where they can be proved to be mistranslations , much less sur- render them to the mere pruriency of reform , or a fastidious taste for improvement . A modern phrase can rarely be substi- tuted for an old one , when the thought or sense ...
where they can be proved to be mistranslations , much less sur- render them to the mere pruriency of reform , or a fastidious taste for improvement . A modern phrase can rarely be substi- tuted for an old one , when the thought or sense ...
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... less transcriber . And it has been well observed that the Jews would have got nothing by the fraud ; for if the present reading be the true reading , that is , " like a lion - my hands and my feet , some verb , such as " they have torn ...
... less transcriber . And it has been well observed that the Jews would have got nothing by the fraud ; for if the present reading be the true reading , that is , " like a lion - my hands and my feet , some verb , such as " they have torn ...
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Page 55 - The stars of midnight shall be dear To her; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face.
Page 423 - ... and account that the long-suffering of our Lord is salvation ; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given unto him, hath written unto you ; as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things ; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other Scriptures, unto their own destruction.
Page 8 - And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand ; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.
Page 19 - These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.
Page 100 - Nature herself, it seem'd would raise A Minster to her Maker's praise ! Not for a meaner use ascend Her columns, or her arches bend ; Nor of a theme less solemn tells That mighty surge that ebbs and swells, And still, between each awful pause, From the high vault an answer draws, In varied tone prolong'd and high, That mocks the organ's melody.
Page 282 - From all sedition, privy conspiracy, and rebellion ; from all false doctrine, heresy, and schism; from hardness of heart, and contempt of thy Word and Commandment, Good Lord, deliver us.
Page 100 - Merrily, merrily goes the bark On a breeze from the northward free, So shoots through the morning sky the lark, Or the swan through the summer sea. The shores of Mull on the eastward lay, And Ulva dark and Colonsay, And all the group of islets gay That guard famed Staffa round.
Page 202 - She walks in beauty like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies ; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes ; Thus mellowed to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
Page 100 - And welter'd in that wondrous dome, Where, as to shame the temples deck'd By skill of earthly architect, Nature herself, it seem'd, would raise A Minster to her Maker's praise ! Not for a meaner use ascend Her columns, or her arches bend ; Nor of a theme less solemn tells That mighty surge that ebbs and...
Page 59 - Beside yon spring I stood, And eyed its waters till we seemed to feel One sadness, they and I. For them a bond Of brotherhood is broken : time has been When, every day, the touch of human hand Dislodged the natural sleep that binds them up In mortal stillness ; and they ministered To human comfort.