The Retrospective Review, Volume 1Charles and Henry Baldwyn, 1820 |
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... fair pictures of more than earthly virtue , tinted with the dews of heaven , and encircled with celestial glories . The scene in The Broken Heart , where Calantha amidst the festal crowd , receives the news of the successive deaths of ...
... fair pictures of more than earthly virtue , tinted with the dews of heaven , and encircled with celestial glories . The scene in The Broken Heart , where Calantha amidst the festal crowd , receives the news of the successive deaths of ...
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... fair , but wrinkled ; her eyes small , yet black and pleasant ; her nose a little hooked , her lips narrow , and her teeth black , ( a defect the English seem subject to , from their too great use of sugar ) ; she had in her ears two ...
... fair , but wrinkled ; her eyes small , yet black and pleasant ; her nose a little hooked , her lips narrow , and her teeth black , ( a defect the English seem subject to , from their too great use of sugar ) ; she had in her ears two ...
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... fair , and describes the sports of the mob , and the state of the mayor , to whom he seems to look up with great reverence . It is amusing to find , that in those early times the light - fingered knights of the post were as active as in ...
... fair , and describes the sports of the mob , and the state of the mayor , to whom he seems to look up with great reverence . It is amusing to find , that in those early times the light - fingered knights of the post were as active as in ...
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... fair cheek , like a gentle thief , Stealing his heart through all the / guards of grief . " When Pharonnida arrived at woman's estate , her fa- ther chose a palace in the Vale of Ceres , near to his capital of Corinth , for her ...
... fair cheek , like a gentle thief , Stealing his heart through all the / guards of grief . " When Pharonnida arrived at woman's estate , her fa- ther chose a palace in the Vale of Ceres , near to his capital of Corinth , for her ...
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... fair arch , in which , Argalia seem'd , Clad in bright armour , sitting , who redeem'd Her from approaching danger ; which being done , The darkness vanish'd , and the glorious sun Of welcome light display'd its beams , by which A ...
... fair arch , in which , Argalia seem'd , Clad in bright armour , sitting , who redeem'd Her from approaching danger ; which being done , The darkness vanish'd , and the glorious sun Of welcome light display'd its beams , by which A ...
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Página 74 - 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 - ... it cannot be long before we lie down in darkness and have our light in ashes...
Página 312 - 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 90 - The number of the dead long exceedeth all that shall live. The night of time far surpasseth the day, and who knows when was the equinox?
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 93 - 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 93 - To be ignorant of evils to come, and forgetful of evils past, is a merciful provision in nature, whereby we digest the mixture of our few and evil days ; and our delivered senses not relapsing into cutting remembrances, our sorrows are not kept raw by the edge of repetitions.
Página 18 - That day she was dressed in white silk, bordered with pearls of the size of beans, and over it a mantle of black silk, shot with silver threads ; her train was very long, the end of it borne by a marchioness ; instead of a chain she had an oblong collar of gold and jewels.
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 91 - 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.