The Retrospective Review, Volume 1Charles and Henry Baldwyn, 1820 |
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... cold and gloomy cells of monasteries , till the dawning of better times shot revivifying light into these recesses of ignorance and superstition . The invention of paper in the eleventh , and of printing in the fifteenth VI INTRODUCTION .
... cold and gloomy cells of monasteries , till the dawning of better times shot revivifying light into these recesses of ignorance and superstition . The invention of paper in the eleventh , and of printing in the fifteenth VI INTRODUCTION .
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... light , And adds a jewel to the crown of night . MONTGOMERY . The literature , however , of our own country , the most rich , varied , and comprehensive of any in the world , and replete with more interest to the English reader than any ...
... light , And adds a jewel to the crown of night . MONTGOMERY . The literature , however , of our own country , the most rich , varied , and comprehensive of any in the world , and replete with more interest to the English reader than any ...
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... light Readers with the flowers of books , or satisfy them with a smooth contexture of all the reasons and argu- ments in them , as to point out those heads or topics which , like so many streams and rivulets that severally arise in the ...
... light Readers with the flowers of books , or satisfy them with a smooth contexture of all the reasons and argu- ments in them , as to point out those heads or topics which , like so many streams and rivulets that severally arise in the ...
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... light to contemplate . Various , indeed , yet most distinct from these , are the sources of that deep joy that tragedy produces . Sometimes we are filled with a delight not dis- similar to that which the Laocoon excites - an admiration ...
... light to contemplate . Various , indeed , yet most distinct from these , are the sources of that deep joy that tragedy produces . Sometimes we are filled with a delight not dis- similar to that which the Laocoon excites - an admiration ...
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... light in which we are exhibited - we not only wish to know what we really are , but what others think of us . There is no part of our history which has been more the theme of panegyric , or the source of our national pride , than the ...
... light in which we are exhibited - we not only wish to know what we really are , but what others think of us . There is no part of our history which has been more the theme of panegyric , or the source of our national pride , than the ...
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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.