The Foreign Quarterly Review, Volume 1Treuttel and Würtz, Treuttel, Jun, and Richter, 1827 |
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... reader may better understand their genius and style . His book , he tells us , is to be considered by the Spaniards as the reverse of their own histories , for as the Spanish writers say little or nothing of the Moorish dynasties , he ...
... reader may better understand their genius and style . His book , he tells us , is to be considered by the Spaniards as the reverse of their own histories , for as the Spanish writers say little or nothing of the Moorish dynasties , he ...
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... reader to discover , if he can , in their Moorish disguise ; and he has pre- fixed a convenient chronological table . A good book has thus been rendered more generally accessible , and more agreeable for those who can be satisfied ...
... reader to discover , if he can , in their Moorish disguise ; and he has pre- fixed a convenient chronological table . A good book has thus been rendered more generally accessible , and more agreeable for those who can be satisfied ...
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... reader unsatisfied , the author of that history will be more indebted to Morales than to any other of his predecessors . The order which he pursued was that of the kings of Castille and Leon , in which kingdoms the other principalities ...
... reader unsatisfied , the author of that history will be more indebted to Morales than to any other of his predecessors . The order which he pursued was that of the kings of Castille and Leon , in which kingdoms the other principalities ...
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... reader will at once call to mind the well - known story of the Milesian virgins , who were only to be deterred from suicide by a decree for exposing their bodies after death . The modern instances may , perhaps , not be so generally ...
... reader will at once call to mind the well - known story of the Milesian virgins , who were only to be deterred from suicide by a decree for exposing their bodies after death . The modern instances may , perhaps , not be so generally ...
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... reader un- expectedly finds himself disposed to approve what at first must be deemed an act of great imprudence as well as of intolerance , for it appears that he had pursued a course of argument as loathsome as it was in every respect ...
... reader un- expectedly finds himself disposed to approve what at first must be deemed an act of great imprudence as well as of intolerance , for it appears that he had pursued a course of argument as loathsome as it was in every respect ...
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Page 89 - Some say no evil thing that walks by night, In fog or fire, by lake or moorish fen, Blue meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost, That breaks his magic chains at curfew time, No goblin or swart faery of the mine, Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity.
Page 63 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up: it stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying, Shall mortal man be more just than God?
Page 62 - What might this be ? A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses.
Page 63 - The other Shape — If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, For each seemed either — black it stood as Night, Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart: what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Page 61 - This opinion, which perhaps prevails as far as human nature is diffused, could become universal only by its truth : those that never heard of one another, would not have agreed in a tale which nothing but experience can make credible. That it is doubted by single cavillers can very little weaken the general evidence, and some who deny it with their tongues confess it by their fears.
Page 64 - He had employed his mind chiefly upon works of fiction and subjects of fancy ; and, by indulging some peculiar habits of thought, was eminently delighted with those flights of imagination which pass the bounds of nature, and to which the mind is reconciled only by a passive acquiescence in popular traditions. He loved fairies, genii, giants, and monsters ; he delighted to rove through the meanders of enchantment, to gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces, to repose by the waterfalls of Elysian...
Page 79 - When to myself I act and smile, With pleasing thoughts the time beguile, By a brook side or wood so green, Unheard, unsought for, or unseen, A thousand pleasures do me bless, And crown my soul with happiness. All my joys besides are folly, None so sweet as melancholy.
Page 80 - ... melody, Towns, palaces, and cities fine ; Here now, then there ; the world is mine, Rare beauties, gallant ladies shine, Whate'er is lovely or divine. All other joys to this are folly, None so sweet as melancholy. Methinks I hear, methinks I see Ghosts, goblins, fiends ; my...
Page 350 - To be ignorant of evils to come, and forgetful of evils past, is a merciful provision in nature, whereby we digest the mixture of our few and evil days ; and our delivered senses not relapsing into cutting remembrances, our sorrows are not kept raw by the edge of repetitions.
Page 78 - Nor peace, nor ease, the heart can know, That, like the needle true, Turns at the touch of joy or woe, But turning, trembles too.