The Spirit of the Public Journals

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1805

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Page 351 - On this scheme of things, a king is but a man, a queen is but a woman ; a woman is but an animal ; and an animal not of the highest order.
Page 354 - And, conquering by her happiness alone, Shall France compel the nations to be free, Till Love and Joy look round, and call the Earth their own.
Page 150 - Garrick longer than you have done : and I know no right you have to talk to me on the subject." Perhaps I deserved this check ; for it was rather presumptuous in me. an entire stranger, to express any doubt of the justice of his animadversion upon his old acquaintance and...
Page 2 - ROGERO, and agrees to live with him. The Children are produced on all sides — and YOUNG POTTINGEN is commissioned to write to his Father, the DOCTOR, to detail the joyful events which have taken place, and to invite him to WEIMAR to partake of the general felicity.
Page 10 - This faded form ! this pallid hue ! This blood my veins is clotting in, My years are many — they were few When first I enter'd at the U— — niversity of Gottingen — — niversity of Gottingen.
Page 170 - All that glisters is not gold," are the words of our old but immortal bard. THE LOVES OF THE TRIANGLES. [MAY 7, 1798.] HE frequent solicitations which we have received for a continuation of the LOVES OF THE TRIANGLES, have induced us to lay before the public (with Mr. Higgins's permission) the concluding lines of the Canto. The catastrophe of Mr. and Mrs. GINGHAM, and the episode of HIPPONA, contained, in our apprehension, several reflections of too free a nature. The conspiracy of...
Page 157 - Man from his present biped state, to a rank more worthy of his endowments and aspirations ; to a rank in which he would be, as it were, all MIND, would enjoy unclouded perspicacity and perpetual vitality ; feed on PHLOGISTON, and never DIE, but by his own consent.
Page 165 - The traces of this disproportion are to be found in the early history of every country. — The ancient laws of Wales estimate a Cat at the price of as much corn as would be sufficient to cover her, if she were suspended by the tail with her fore-feet touching the ground. — See Howel Dha.
Page xiv - Casimere, having been called away from the neighbourhood of Matilda's residence to other quarters, becomes enamoured of, and marries Cecilia, by whom he has a family; and whom he likewise deserts after a few years co-habitation, on pretence of business which calls Mm to Kamtschatka.
Page 328 - YE sons of freedom, wake to glory! Hark! hark! what myriads bid you rise! Your children, wives, and grandsires hoary, Behold their tears, and hear their cries! Shall hateful tyrants, mischief breeding, With hireling hosts, a ruffian band, Affright and desolate the land, While peace and liberty lie bleeding? To arms! to arms! ye brave! Th" avenging sword unsheath ; March on!

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