The Retrospective Review.., Volume 3Henry Southern Charles and Henry Baldwyn, Newgate Street., 1821 |
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... delight and benefit of those gentlemen , that love that most lively language , " and from a conviction that the treasures and sweets of Italian literature were never better appreciated than at the present day . The very name of that ...
... delight and benefit of those gentlemen , that love that most lively language , " and from a conviction that the treasures and sweets of Italian literature were never better appreciated than at the present day . The very name of that ...
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... delight itself so much more truly with the spirit , the splendour , and the deliciousness of his exquisite poetry ? It may indeed be questionable , whether any such occult wisdom is intended to be enforced in this noble poem ...
... delight itself so much more truly with the spirit , the splendour , and the deliciousness of his exquisite poetry ? It may indeed be questionable , whether any such occult wisdom is intended to be enforced in this noble poem ...
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... delightful chequer - work of acute thought and apposite illustration , of original and extracted sentiment , than is presented in his works . As a story - teller , he was most consummately felicitous . The relation which we have seen ...
... delightful chequer - work of acute thought and apposite illustration , of original and extracted sentiment , than is presented in his works . As a story - teller , he was most consummately felicitous . The relation which we have seen ...
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... delight , for nine of his attempts out of ten are certain to be complete failures ; nor can it arise from the trueness of his wit , for commonly it consists of little more than puns , quibbles , and antitheses : it is not certainly from ...
... delight , for nine of his attempts out of ten are certain to be complete failures ; nor can it arise from the trueness of his wit , for commonly it consists of little more than puns , quibbles , and antitheses : it is not certainly from ...
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... delightful medley of interchanged amusement , presenting entertainment as varied as it is inexhaustible . His Good Thoughts in Bad Times , and lesser works , are all equally excellent in their way , full of admirable maxims and ...
... delightful medley of interchanged amusement , presenting entertainment as varied as it is inexhaustible . His Good Thoughts in Bad Times , and lesser works , are all equally excellent in their way , full of admirable maxims and ...
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Page 217 - SWEET day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night, For thou must die. Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die. Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, My music shows ye have your closes, And all must die.
Page 184 - As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er Heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene ; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head...
Page 221 - Let us (said he) pour on him all we can: Let the world's riches, which dispersed lie, Contract into a span. So strength first made a way; Then beauty flowed, then wisdom, honour, pleasure: When almost all was out, God made a stay, Perceiving that alone of all his treasure Rest in the bottom lay. For if I should...
Page 142 - Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favour. Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of -Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Page 218 - WHO says that fictions only and false hair Become a verse ? Is there in truth no beauty ? Is all good structure in a winding stair...
Page 58 - ... but only a rod and a ferula. Secondly, others who are able, use it only as a passage to better preferment, to patch the rents in their present fortune, till they can provide a. new one, and betake themselves to some more gainful calling. Thirdly, they are disheartened from doing their best with the miserable reward which in some places they receive, being masters to their children and slaves to their parents.
Page 143 - But it is not good to stay too long in the theatre. Let us now pass on to the judicial place or palace of the mind, which we are to approach and view with more reverence and attention.
Page 148 - But as young men, when they knit and shape perfectly, do seldom grow to a further stature ; so knowledge, while it is in aphorisms and observations, it is in growth ; but when it once is comprehended in exact methods, it may perchance be further polished and illustrated, and accommodated for use and practice ; but it increaseth no more in bulk and substance.
Page 146 - But the greatest error of all the rest, is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge : for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge...
Page 220 - I did ; and going did a rainbow note : Surely, thought I, This is the lace of Peace's coat : I will search out the matter.