The Literary Character, Volume 2J. Murray, 1822 - Authors, English |
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... carried by so fine a genius as Bishop BERKLEY . " All are pictures , alike painted on the retina , or optical sensorium ! " exclaimed the enthusiast BARRY , who only saw pictures in nature , and na- ture in pictures . This faculty has ...
... carried by so fine a genius as Bishop BERKLEY . " All are pictures , alike painted on the retina , or optical sensorium ! " exclaimed the enthusiast BARRY , who only saw pictures in nature , and na- ture in pictures . This faculty has ...
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... carried me away , that I have forgot myself ; and for that time might be looked upon as an enthusiastic madman ; for I could really fancy the whole action was passing before my eyes . " The effect which the study of Plutarch's ...
... carried me away , that I have forgot myself ; and for that time might be looked upon as an enthusiastic madman ; for I could really fancy the whole action was passing before my eyes . " The effect which the study of Plutarch's ...
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... carried him on through a career so strange and wonderful . " It is a rational object of ambition in the mind of man , to whom only a short space of time is allotted upon earth , to have the glory of re- storing the history of thousands ...
... carried him on through a career so strange and wonderful . " It is a rational object of ambition in the mind of man , to whom only a short space of time is allotted upon earth , to have the glory of re- storing the history of thousands ...
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... carry us from the wanderings of fancy into the aberrations of delirium . The endurance of attention , even in minds of the highest order , is limited by a law of nature ; and when thinking is goaded on to ex- haustion , confusion of ...
... carry us from the wanderings of fancy into the aberrations of delirium . The endurance of attention , even in minds of the highest order , is limited by a law of nature ; and when thinking is goaded on to ex- haustion , confusion of ...
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... carried off Pius VI . from Rome ; then the long indignant secretary poured forth an invective more severe " against the great harlot " than was ever traced by a protestant pen- MONTI now invoked the rock of Sardinia ; the poet bade it ...
... carried off Pius VI . from Rome ; then the long indignant secretary poured forth an invective more severe " against the great harlot " than was ever traced by a protestant pen- MONTI now invoked the rock of Sardinia ; the poet bade it ...
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Page 275 - Guard them, and him within protect from harms. He can requite thee; for he knows the charms That call fame on such gentle acts as these, And he can spread thy name o'er lands and seas, Whatever clime the sun's bright circle warms. Lift not thy spear against the Muses
Page 70 - For what other reason have I spent my life in so unprofitable a study ? why am I grown old, in seeking so barren a reward as fame ? The same parts and application, which have made me a poet, might have raised me to any honours of the gown, which are often given to men of as little learning and less honesty than myself.
Page 168 - Say, for you saw us, ye immortal lights, How oft unwearied have we spent the nights, Till the Ledaean stars, so famed for love, Wonder'd at us from above! We spent them not in toys, in lusts, or wine ; But search of deep Philosophy, Wit, Eloquence, and Poetry, Arts which I loved, for they, my friend, were thine.
Page 143 - Subtle as sphinx ; as sweet, and musical, As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair, And, when love speaks, the voice of all the gods Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony. Never durst poet touch a pen to write, Until his ink were temper'd with love's sighs ; O, then his lines would ravish savage ears, And plant in tyrants mild humility.
Page 51 - In Pope I cannot read a line, But with a Sigh I wish it mine ; When He can in one Couplet fix More Sense than I can do in six; It gives me such a jealous Fit, I cry "Pox take him and his Wit!
Page 263 - I contrived it so, that lord treasurer came to me, and asked (I had Parnell by me) whether that was Dr. Parnell, and came up and spoke to him with great kindness, and invited him to his house. I value myself upon making the ministry desire to be acquainted with Parnell, and not Parnell with the ministry.
Page 73 - I am censured of some conceit of mine ability or worth : but, I pray your majesty, impute it to desire, possunt quia posse videntur. And again, I should do some wrong to your majesty's school, if, in sixteen years access and near service, I should think I had learned, or laid in, nothing.
Page 128 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, 5 And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...
Page 39 - So the struck Eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And winged the shaft that quivered in his heart ; Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel He nursed the pinion which impelled the steel ; While the same plumage that had warmed his nest Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast.
Page 148 - Methinks I hear in accents low The sportive, kind reply : Poor moralist ! and what art thou ? A solitary fly ! Thy joys no glittering female meets, No hive hast thou of hoarded sweets, No painted plumage to display : On hasty wings thy youth is flown ; Thy sun is set, thy spring is gone — We frolic, while 'tis May.