The Retrospective Review, Volume 3Charles and Henry Baldwyn, 1821 |
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... passions and prejudices , which have , perhaps , the strongest hold on the mind , and are at the same time those which it is the most delicate task to encounter , because they often have their foundation in virtuous motives , in ...
... passions and prejudices , which have , perhaps , the strongest hold on the mind , and are at the same time those which it is the most delicate task to encounter , because they often have their foundation in virtuous motives , in ...
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... passions had diverted the purer and more enlarged current of his feelings ; " It is not righteousness that ye turn your faces in prayer towards the east and the west , but righteousness is of him who believeth in God and the last day ...
... passions had diverted the purer and more enlarged current of his feelings ; " It is not righteousness that ye turn your faces in prayer towards the east and the west , but righteousness is of him who believeth in God and the last day ...
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... passion she dissembled well , And strove her love and hot desires to cover , " Till hart with sighs , and eyes with teares ron over . Book III . Carew . So strong great launce he beares , and in such guyse This youth comes on , both ...
... passion she dissembled well , And strove her love and hot desires to cover , " Till hart with sighs , and eyes with teares ron over . Book III . Carew . So strong great launce he beares , and in such guyse This youth comes on , both ...
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... passions was their great object . But while they thus attempted to excite the interest and the admiration of their votaries , beneath this garb of beauty and ornament was generally concealed some mystic allegory intended to enlighten ...
... passions was their great object . But while they thus attempted to excite the interest and the admiration of their votaries , beneath this garb of beauty and ornament was generally concealed some mystic allegory intended to enlighten ...
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... passion ; not cruelly making new indentures of the flesh of his appren- tice . To this end he never beats him in the height of his passion . Moses being to fetch water out of the rock , and commanded by God only to speak to it with his ...
... passion ; not cruelly making new indentures of the flesh of his appren- tice . To this end he never beats him in the height of his passion . Moses being to fetch water out of the rock , and commanded by God only to speak to it with his ...
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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.