The Retrospective Review, Volume 1Charles and Henry Baldwyn, 1820 |
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... person was entombed , " Whom she must embrace In death's dark lodgings ; and ere life was fled , Remain a sad companion of the dead- Confining beauty , in youth's glorious bloom , To the black prison of a dismal tomb , Where fast enclos ...
... person was entombed , " Whom she must embrace In death's dark lodgings ; and ere life was fled , Remain a sad companion of the dead- Confining beauty , in youth's glorious bloom , To the black prison of a dismal tomb , Where fast enclos ...
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... of life , Had now forsook . " . The absence of the Princess being at the same time dis- covered , Almanzor was sent for to assist in the choice of a person , to fill the vacant throne . The 46 Chamberlayne's Pharonnida .
... of life , Had now forsook . " . The absence of the Princess being at the same time dis- covered , Almanzor was sent for to assist in the choice of a person , to fill the vacant throne . The 46 Chamberlayne's Pharonnida .
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a person , to fill the vacant throne . The physicians having investigated , and reported the King's death to have been caused by poison , and suspicion arising of its having been administered in the cordial ; Almanzor hastened to the ...
a person , to fill the vacant throne . The physicians having investigated , and reported the King's death to have been caused by poison , and suspicion arising of its having been administered in the cordial ; Almanzor hastened to the ...
Página 85
... persons or classes who become its victims . Those who regard it more universally and intensely - as Blair and Young - yet look but on its surface . They are conversant only with cypresses , yew trees , and grave stones , or hint at ...
... persons or classes who become its victims . Those who regard it more universally and intensely - as Blair and Young - yet look but on its surface . They are conversant only with cypresses , yew trees , and grave stones , or hint at ...
Página 91
... persons ; one face of Janus holds no propor- tion unto the other . ' Tis too late to be ambitious . The great mutations of the world are acted , or time may be too short for our designs . extend our memories by monuments , whose death ...
... persons ; one face of Janus holds no propor- tion unto the other . ' Tis too late to be ambitious . The great mutations of the world are acted , or time may be too short for our designs . extend our memories by monuments , whose death ...
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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.