The Quarterly Review, Volume 24William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1821 |
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... Petrarch , and Tasso , is only so great as to lead him to a somewhat wanton and capricious display of power in inverting it , and condensing it into epigrammatic conciseness ; to him we would say , that the name of Foscolo should be ...
... Petrarch , and Tasso , is only so great as to lead him to a somewhat wanton and capricious display of power in inverting it , and condensing it into epigrammatic conciseness ; to him we would say , that the name of Foscolo should be ...
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... PETRARCH , having been endowed with almost all the noble , and with some of the little passions of human nature ; and , having never concealed them in his writings , has left materials for the most interesting of histories , a history ...
... PETRARCH , having been endowed with almost all the noble , and with some of the little passions of human nature ; and , having never concealed them in his writings , has left materials for the most interesting of histories , a history ...
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... Petrarch was banished in 1302 , -he was at Arezzo when his son was born in 1304 , —the whites were no other than the Ghi- bellins under another name , the blacks were the Guelphs , — lastly , it was not the Guelphs , but the Ghibellins ...
... Petrarch was banished in 1302 , -he was at Arezzo when his son was born in 1304 , —the whites were no other than the Ghi- bellins under another name , the blacks were the Guelphs , — lastly , it was not the Guelphs , but the Ghibellins ...
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... Petrarch and Laura . Un jour Pétrarque , revenant de ses promenades solitaires et après avoir passé la nuit dans une cabane de pêcheurs , se trouva le 6 Avril , le Lundi de la semaine sainte , à six heures du matin , aux portes d ...
... Petrarch and Laura . Un jour Pétrarque , revenant de ses promenades solitaires et après avoir passé la nuit dans une cabane de pêcheurs , se trouva le 6 Avril , le Lundi de la semaine sainte , à six heures du matin , aux portes d ...
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... Petrarch are made to oppose ' the hopes of his future glory , ' that is to say , to propose that Laura should remain single until the poet should have acquired by his rhymes a reputation sufficient to counterbalance the inequality of ...
... Petrarch are made to oppose ' the hopes of his future glory , ' that is to say , to propose that Laura should remain single until the poet should have acquired by his rhymes a reputation sufficient to counterbalance the inequality of ...
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Page 42 - If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not, and it shall be given him,
Page 42 - The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
Page 473 - His watchmen are blind : they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark ; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber. Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand : they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.
Page 497 - The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly.
Page 42 - Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord God: and not that he should return from his ways, and live?
Page 368 - Captain Wentworth had no fortune. He had been lucky in his profession ; but spending freely what had come freely, had realized nothing. But he was confident that he should soon be rich: full of life and ardour, he knew that he should soon have a ship, and soon be on a station that would lead to everything he wanted. He had always been lucky; he knew he should be so still.
Page 299 - God loves from whole to parts: but human soul Must rise from individual to the whole. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake; The centre moved, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace; His country next; and next all human race...
Page 361 - I did not know a great deal that she has not the least notion of yet. How long ago it is, aunt, since we used to repeat the chronological order of the kings of England, with the dates of their accession, and most of the principal events of their reigns ! ' ' Yes,' added the other ; ' and of the Roman emperors as low as Severus ; besides a great deal of the heathen mythology, and all the metals, semi-metals, planets, and distinguished philosophers.
Page 512 - ... the sky. At first agglomerated in a single confused mass, the lesser parts of this immense whole seemed, as we advanced, by degrees to unfold, to disengage themselves from each other, and to grow into various groups, divided by wide chasms and deep indentures, — until at last the...
Page 342 - O night and shades, How are ye joined with hell in triple knot Against the unarmed weakness of one virgin, Alone and helpless! Is this the confidence You gave me, brother? ELD. BRO. Yes, and keep it still; Lean on it safely; not a period Shall be unsaid for me.