New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 8Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Thomas Hood, Theodore Edward Hook, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth E. W. Allen, 1823 |
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... merits , and indeed , not unfrequently , in the roundest terms defies them to balance for an in- stant between their malignant prejudices and the clear and resistless justice of the case . There is one , the most difficult , it is said ...
... merits , and indeed , not unfrequently , in the roundest terms defies them to balance for an in- stant between their malignant prejudices and the clear and resistless justice of the case . There is one , the most difficult , it is said ...
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... merits has been discussed by persons , too impassioned and too interested in the result to pronounce a sound opinion upon it . To one , however , who has never been provoked to admire or hate him to excess , the solution may not be ...
... merits has been discussed by persons , too impassioned and too interested in the result to pronounce a sound opinion upon it . To one , however , who has never been provoked to admire or hate him to excess , the solution may not be ...
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... merit in writing , real wit , and a perfect freedom from those indelicacies and jurations resorted to by sterile writers to fill an hiatus or wind up the climax of a stupid sentence . We could wish to see some of our sound old tragedies ...
... merit in writing , real wit , and a perfect freedom from those indelicacies and jurations resorted to by sterile writers to fill an hiatus or wind up the climax of a stupid sentence . We could wish to see some of our sound old tragedies ...
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... merits . He has effected much for the public gratification , but much yet re- mains to be done . It is still farther in his favour , that he has shewn his willingness to give a fair trial to the production of every author that has ...
... merits . He has effected much for the public gratification , but much yet re- mains to be done . It is still farther in his favour , that he has shewn his willingness to give a fair trial to the production of every author that has ...
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... merits , I would applaud them to the very echo that should applaud again , always thanking Heaven that it was not established before the days of Homer , Belisarius , and Bampfylde Moore Carew , in which case we should have had three ...
... merits , I would applaud them to the very echo that should applaud again , always thanking Heaven that it was not established before the days of Homer , Belisarius , and Bampfylde Moore Carew , in which case we should have had three ...
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Page 113 - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page, in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent.
Page 536 - High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time. One touch of nature makes the whole world kin...
Page 532 - The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion ; the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colors and their forms were then to me An appetite: a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye.
Page 337 - This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, — often the surfeit of our own behaviour, — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars...
Page 272 - ALL worldly shapes shall melt in gloom, The Sun himself must die, Before this mortal shall assume Its immortality ! I saw a vision in my sleep, That gave my spirit strength to sweep Adown the gulf of Time ! I...
Page 114 - I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious.
Page 273 - His pomp, his pride, his skill ; And arts that made fire, flood, and earth, The vassals of his will ; — Yet mourn I not thy parted sway, Thou dim discrowned king of day : For all those trophied arts And triumphs that beneath thee sprang, Heal'd not a passion or a pang Entail'd on human hearts.
Page 264 - Or call up him that left half told The story of Cambuscan bold, Of Camball, and of Algarsife, And who had Canace to wife, That own'd the virtuous ring and glass, And of the wondrous horse of brass, On which the Tartar king did ride...
Page 518 - Crime came not near him — she is not the child Of solitude; Health shrank not from him — for Her home is in the rarely trodden wild, Where if men seek her not, and death be more Their choice than life, forgive them, as beguiled By habit to what their own hearts abhor — In cities caged. The present case in point I Cite is, that Boon lived hunting up to ninety...
Page 273 - The eclipse of Nature spreads my pall, The majesty of darkness shall Receive my parting ghost! This spirit shall return to Him Who gave its heavenly spark; Yet think not, Sun, it shall be dim When thou thyself art dark! No! it shall live again, and shine In bliss unknown...