Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volume 44John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell Leavitt, Throw and Company, 1858 |
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... truth one side of Jonson's charac- ter ; that , however , was the least estima- ble side , and Drummond not a very cath- olic judge . There is always this great fact in Jonson's favor , that he was best esteemed by the greatest men of ...
... truth one side of Jonson's charac- ter ; that , however , was the least estima- ble side , and Drummond not a very cath- olic judge . There is always this great fact in Jonson's favor , that he was best esteemed by the greatest men of ...
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... truth of argument , dignity of persons , gravity and height of elocution , fullness and frequency of sentence , I have discharged the other offices of a tragic poet , let not the absence of these forms be imputed to me . " And if indeed ...
... truth of argument , dignity of persons , gravity and height of elocution , fullness and frequency of sentence , I have discharged the other offices of a tragic poet , let not the absence of these forms be imputed to me . " And if indeed ...
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... truths which they were perpetually touching , but never distinctly acknowledged to be truth , much less ac- quired a mastery over them ? Dr. Whewell ascribes the error of the ancients ( History , book i . chap . iii . sect . 2 , ) not ...
... truths which they were perpetually touching , but never distinctly acknowledged to be truth , much less ac- quired a mastery over them ? Dr. Whewell ascribes the error of the ancients ( History , book i . chap . iii . sect . 2 , ) not ...
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... truth . It was easier to insist that the beauty and simplicity of a circular curve fitted it alone for the celestial motions , than to search out with patience the actual form of the planetary orbits . Nay , in the temper of those times ...
... truth . It was easier to insist that the beauty and simplicity of a circular curve fitted it alone for the celestial motions , than to search out with patience the actual form of the planetary orbits . Nay , in the temper of those times ...
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... truth ? Have our successes borne a due proportion to our teaching and experience ? If , as has been already remarked , the opposite of error be necessarily truth , and that of failure , success , our own age has nothing to fear from a ...
... truth ? Have our successes borne a due proportion to our teaching and experience ? If , as has been already remarked , the opposite of error be necessarily truth , and that of failure , success , our own age has nothing to fear from a ...
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Page 410 - Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore, — "Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, "art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore: Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!
Page 410 - December, And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly I wished the morrow; vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow— sorrow for the lost Lenore, For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore: Nameless here for evermore.
Page 411 - thing of evil - prophet still, if bird or devil! By that Heaven that bends above us - by that God we both adore Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore.
Page 410 - Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer Swung by seraphim whose foot-falls tinkled on the tufted floor. "Wretch," I cried, "thy God hath lent thee — by these angels he hath sent thee Respite — respite and nepenthe from thy memories of Lenore! Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore!
Page 410 - But the Raven still beguiling all my sad soul into smiling, Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird and bust and door; Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore, What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt and ominous bird of yore Meant in croaking "Nevermore.
Page 8 - Triumph, my Britain, thou hast one to show, To whom all Scenes of Europe homage owe. He was not of an age, but for all time...
Page 239 - Whose powers shed round him in the common strife, Or mild concerns of ordinary life, A constant influence, a peculiar grace ; But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for human kind, Is happy as a Lover ; and attired With sudden brightness, like a Man inspired...
Page 123 - The place of the Scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter ; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth : In his humiliation his judgment was taken away : and who shall declare his generation ? for his life is taken from the earth.
Page 8 - Sweet Swan of Avon! what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames That so did take Eliza and our James!
Page 470 - ... a terror to evil-doers, and a praise to them that do well.