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... readers Mr. Hayley's son , Thomas Alphonso , the sculptor . This youth , the only offspring of his father's marriage , and the object of his very dotage and idolatry , was destined to be a professional artist , and for this purpose had ...
... readers Mr. Hayley's son , Thomas Alphonso , the sculptor . This youth , the only offspring of his father's marriage , and the object of his very dotage and idolatry , was destined to be a professional artist , and for this purpose had ...
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... readers . His fancy was rich , but under the control of a cultivated and correct taste ; and such was the force of his genius , and so pliant was it , that , like Milton's elephant , he " wreathed his lithe proboscis , ' and could rend ...
... readers . His fancy was rich , but under the control of a cultivated and correct taste ; and such was the force of his genius , and so pliant was it , that , like Milton's elephant , he " wreathed his lithe proboscis , ' and could rend ...
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... readers would not thank us for following the author through his cal- culations : but , when we add that he considers the divine age as having a more recondite meaning , and that when it is used as an historic date it always denotes one ...
... readers would not thank us for following the author through his cal- culations : but , when we add that he considers the divine age as having a more recondite meaning , and that when it is used as an historic date it always denotes one ...
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... reader a very favor- able idea of Mr. Johnston's powers . The subject is a fine one , and has been finely treated by the poet . The hand of death was on him , and he bore In every feature that sharp , clear , cold look Which is not of ...
... reader a very favor- able idea of Mr. Johnston's powers . The subject is a fine one , and has been finely treated by the poet . The hand of death was on him , and he bore In every feature that sharp , clear , cold look Which is not of ...
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... reader to form a more accurate idea of the character of the Italian sonnet than per- haps we can gather from any other source in our literature . We shall quote , indifferently , a sonnet from Petrarch and another from Monti , with ...
... reader to form a more accurate idea of the character of the Italian sonnet than per- haps we can gather from any other source in our literature . We shall quote , indifferently , a sonnet from Petrarch and another from Monti , with ...
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Página 288 - O Cromwell, Cromwell, Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.
Página 57 - Is there under the heavens a more glorious and refreshing object, of the kind, than an impregnable hedge, of about four hundred feet in length, nine feet high, and five in diameter, which I can...
Página 304 - Words become general, by being made the signs of general ideas ; and ideas become general, by separating from them the circumstances of time, and place, and any other ideas, that may determine them to this or that particular existence.
Página 266 - I'll example you with thievery: The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction Robs the vast sea: the moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun...
Página 386 - Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past; which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done...
Página 173 - At this season of the year, and in this gloomy uncomfortable climate, it is no easy matter for the owner of a mind like mine, to divert it from sad subjects, and fix it upon such as may administer to its amusement.
Página 438 - The Atrocities of the Pirates; being a Faithful Narrative of the Unparalleled Sufferings endured by the author during his captivity among the Pirates of the Island of Cuba; with an Account of the Excesses and Barbarities of those Inhuman Freebooters.
Página 171 - No voice divine the storm allayed, No light propitious shone, When, snatched from all effectual aid, We perished, each alone : But I beneath a rougher sea, And whelmed in deeper gulfs than he.
Página 344 - Italy ; and if they have the same effect on your temper, they will have just the same effects upon your interest ; and be your merit what it will, you will never be employed to paint a picture. It will be the same at London as at Rome ; and the same in Paris as in London : for the world is pretty nearly alike in all its parts...
Página 169 - THERE is in souls a sympathy with sounds, And as the mind is pitched the ear is pleased With melting airs or martial, brisk or grave ; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touched within us, and the heart replies.