The Retrospective Review.., Volume 1Henry Southern Charles and Henry Baldwyn, Newgate Street., 1820 |
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... poetry , the fashionable romances , together with new voyages and travels , occupy the reading time , and fix the ... poets were IV INTRODUCTION .
... poetry , the fashionable romances , together with new voyages and travels , occupy the reading time , and fix the ... poets were IV INTRODUCTION .
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Henry Southern. and not through the eye ; historians and poets were not so much read as heard - Homer was recited by rhapsodists - Herodotus read his history at the Olym- pic games , —the tragedies of Sophocles and Euripides were at ...
Henry Southern. and not through the eye ; historians and poets were not so much read as heard - Homer was recited by rhapsodists - Herodotus read his history at the Olym- pic games , —the tragedies of Sophocles and Euripides were at ...
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... poetry - and that of the prose writers , their language , style , spirit , and character , there exists no account at all . * A deficiency as striking occurs with respect to the literature of neighbouring nations ; unless from native or ...
... poetry - and that of the prose writers , their language , style , spirit , and character , there exists no account at all . * A deficiency as striking occurs with respect to the literature of neighbouring nations ; unless from native or ...
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... poets also have met their deserved reputation , but the animated , clear , and spirited Spanish writers in prose , are ... poetry , with the prose works of fiction , are likely to afford a number of new and interesting articles to our ...
... poets also have met their deserved reputation , but the animated , clear , and spirited Spanish writers in prose , are ... poetry , with the prose works of fiction , are likely to afford a number of new and interesting articles to our ...
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... poetry in particular , we are often surprised , in the midst of dull passages or quaint conceits , with fine ideas , lofty flights of imagination , or sparkling expressions , which are too good to be lost , and too much encumbered with ...
... poetry in particular , we are often surprised , in the midst of dull passages or quaint conceits , with fine ideas , lofty flights of imagination , or sparkling expressions , which are too good to be lost , and too much encumbered with ...
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Página 73 - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Página 90 - Oblivion is not to be hired. The greater part must be content to be as though they had not been, to be found in the register of God, not in the record of man.
Página 310 - tis the soul of peace ; Of all the virtues 'tis nearest kin to heaven ; It makes men look like gods. The best of men That e'er wore earth about him was a sufferer, A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit, The first true gentleman that ever breath'd.
Página 136 - I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
Página 92 - Darkness and light divide the course of time, and oblivion shares with memory a great part even of our living beings ; we slightly remember our felicities, and the smartest strokes of affliction leave but short smart upon us. Sense endureth no extremities, and sorrows destroy us or themselves.
Página 90 - And therefore restless inquietude for the diuturnity of our memories unto present considerations, seems a vanity almost out of date, and superannuated piece of folly. We cannot hope to live so long in our names as some have done in their persons ; one face of Janus holds no proportion unto the other. It is too late to be ambitious.
Página 302 - God, to correct, soften, or strengthen the expression), by the testimony of the Spirit, I mean, an inward impression on the soul, whereby the Spirit of God immediately and directly witnesses to my spirit, that I am a child of God ; that Jesus Christ hath loved me, and given Himself for me ; that all my sins are blotted out, and I, even I, am reconciled to God.
Página 50 - Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause ; An awful pause! prophetic of her end.
Página 317 - Till peace go with him to the tomb. - And let him nurse his fond deceit, And what if he must die in sorrow! Who would not cherish dreams so sweet, Though grief and pain may come tomorrow?
Página 289 - If any one love me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him, and will make our abode with him.