The Retrospective Review, Volume 9Charles and Henry Baldwyn, 1824 |
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... expression , and energy of thought and manner . The style , though commonly superior to the tedious and heavy pro- lixity which marks the productions of the greater part of the contemporaries of our author , not unfrequently assumes a ...
... expression , and energy of thought and manner . The style , though commonly superior to the tedious and heavy pro- lixity which marks the productions of the greater part of the contemporaries of our author , not unfrequently assumes a ...
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... expression and imagery . " Truth indeed came once into the world with her divine Master , and was a perfect shape , most glorious to look on ; but when he ascended , and his apostles after him were laid asleep , then straight arose a ...
... expression and imagery . " Truth indeed came once into the world with her divine Master , and was a perfect shape , most glorious to look on ; but when he ascended , and his apostles after him were laid asleep , then straight arose a ...
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... expression , will often make but a poor figure on paper . Next to their easy carelessness , and polished want of polish , we shall observe that Suckling's verses are ( with few excep- tions ) filled with that artificial sensibility ...
... expression , will often make but a poor figure on paper . Next to their easy carelessness , and polished want of polish , we shall observe that Suckling's verses are ( with few excep- tions ) filled with that artificial sensibility ...
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... expression . The truth is , the ear is the most canting and hypocritical member of the body ; and it frequently becomes delicate and fastidious in proportion as its fellow - servants be- come less so . In turning to Suckling's prose ...
... expression . The truth is , the ear is the most canting and hypocritical member of the body ; and it frequently becomes delicate and fastidious in proportion as its fellow - servants be- come less so . In turning to Suckling's prose ...
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... expression . In this letter he waxes almost , if not quite romantic ; and we could half persuade ourselves that he was as serious and sincere as he wished himself to be thought . And doubtless he was so for the moment . " When I receive ...
... expression . In this letter he waxes almost , if not quite romantic ; and we could half persuade ourselves that he was as serious and sincere as he wished himself to be thought . And doubtless he was so for the moment . " When I receive ...
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Página 314 - Lone wandering, but not lost. All day thy wings have fanned At that far height, the cold thin atmosphere; Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome land, Though the dark night is near.
Página 31 - Why so pale and wan, fond lover? Prithee, why so pale? Will, when looking well can't move her, Looking ill prevail? Prithee, why so pale?
Página 12 - Osiris, took the virgin truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds. From that time ever since, the sad friends of truth, such as durst appear, imitating the careful search that Isis made for the mangled body of Osiris, went up and down gathering up limb by limb still as they could find them.
Página 314 - midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.
Página 361 - I know that all the muse's heavenly lays, With toil of sprite which are so dearly bought, As idle sounds, of few or none are sought, That there is nothing lighter than mere praise.
Página 314 - Seek'st thou the plashy brink Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide, Or where the rocking billows rise and sink On the chafed ocean side? • There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast.— The desert and illimitable air,— Lone wandering, but not lost.
Página 12 - Him were laid asleep, then straight arose a wicked race of deceivers, who, as that story goes of the Egyptian Typhon, i with his conspirators, how they dealt with the good Osiris, took the virgin Truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds. From that time ever since, the sad friends of...
Página 13 - To be still searching what we know not, by what we know, still closing up truth to truth as we find it (for all her body is homogeneal, and proportional) this is the golden rule in Theology as well as in Arithmetic, and makes up the best harmony in a church; not the forced and outward union of cold, and neutral, and inwardly divided minds.
Página 364 - Since that dear voice which did thy sounds approve, Which wont in such harmonious strains to flow, Is reft from earth to tune those spheres above, What art thou but a harbinger of woe? Thy pleasing notes be pleasing notes no more, But orphans...
Página 18 - Lords and Commons of England, consider what nation it is whereof ye are and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.