The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Band 92A. Constable, 1850 |
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... poets delighted to represent on the stage . He was called in derision by his contemporaries ' Agamemnon ' ; nor were his fortunes less high or their catas- trophe less appalling than that of the King of Mycenæ , ' lord of Argos and the ...
... poets delighted to represent on the stage . He was called in derision by his contemporaries ' Agamemnon ' ; nor were his fortunes less high or their catas- trophe less appalling than that of the King of Mycenæ , ' lord of Argos and the ...
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... Pom- peians were preparing for Rome . It was proposed by them- and the proposal was not whispered in secret conclave , but debated in the prætorium and proclaimed in the lines at Dyracchium to ransack the ports of the Mediterranean for ...
... Pom- peians were preparing for Rome . It was proposed by them- and the proposal was not whispered in secret conclave , but debated in the prætorium and proclaimed in the lines at Dyracchium to ransack the ports of the Mediterranean for ...
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... poets , and divines have , in general , exhausted erudition and fancy in extolling the crime of the Ides of March as an act of grave and plenary justice . The worst chapter in Tristram Shandy ' is a foolish rant about the ' godlike ...
... poets , and divines have , in general , exhausted erudition and fancy in extolling the crime of the Ides of March as an act of grave and plenary justice . The worst chapter in Tristram Shandy ' is a foolish rant about the ' godlike ...
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... poets , rhetoricians , and philosophers treated , and were apparently suffered to treat with impunity , the ... Pom- peians.
... poets , rhetoricians , and philosophers treated , and were apparently suffered to treat with impunity , the ... Pom- peians.
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Or Critical Journal. Petronius applauded with impunity the principles of the Pom- peians . A literary fashion of the ancient world became a settled delusion with modern scholars and moralists ; and the death of Cæsar was celebrated as an ...
Or Critical Journal. Petronius applauded with impunity the principles of the Pom- peians . A literary fashion of the ancient world became a settled delusion with modern scholars and moralists ; and the death of Cæsar was celebrated as an ...
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Seite 352 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both!
Seite 276 - Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
Seite 327 - ... an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and in'tense study, (which I take to be my portion in this life,) joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die.
Seite 90 - Stoop then, and wash. — How many ages hence, Shall this our lofty scene be acted over, In states unborn, and accents yet unknown ? Bru.
Seite 332 - If an academy should be established for the cultivation of our style ; which I, who can never wish to see dependence multiplied, hope the spirit of English liberty will hinder or destroy, let them, instead of compiling grammars and dictionaries, endeavour, with all their influence, to stop the license of translators, whose idleness and ignorance, if it be suffered to proceed, will reduce us to babble a dialect of France.
Seite 347 - This is a misery much to be lamented ; for though they were burning and shining lights in their times, yet they penetrated not into the whole counsel of God, but, were they now living, would be as willing to embrace further light as that which they first received.
Seite 557 - To the inmost mind, There exercise all his fierce accidents, And on her purest spirits prey, As on entrails, joints, and limbs, With answerable pains, but more intense, Though void of corporal sense.