The Retrospective Review, Volume 2Charles and Henry Baldwyn, 1820 - Books |
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... true . But to proceed from his person to his works . His Defence of Poesy , which may , at some future time , form a subject for our Review , has received an universal tribute of admiration , and would be sufficient of itself , were ...
... true . But to proceed from his person to his works . His Defence of Poesy , which may , at some future time , form a subject for our Review , has received an universal tribute of admiration , and would be sufficient of itself , were ...
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... true passion of unkindnesse to be never aright , but betwixt them that most dearly love . " - p . 47 . Musidorus , now finding that harshness only served to em- bitter the mind of his friend , without recovering it , submits to the ...
... true passion of unkindnesse to be never aright , but betwixt them that most dearly love . " - p . 47 . Musidorus , now finding that harshness only served to em- bitter the mind of his friend , without recovering it , submits to the ...
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... true love ( well considered ) hath an infective power ; at last she fell in acquaintance with love's harbenger , wishing : first , she would wish , that they two might live all their lives together , like two of Diana's nymphs . But ...
... true love ( well considered ) hath an infective power ; at last she fell in acquaintance with love's harbenger , wishing : first , she would wish , that they two might live all their lives together , like two of Diana's nymphs . But ...
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... true ve- hemencie besought her that he might heare her speake , whereupon she suffered her sweet breath to turn it selfe into these kinde of words . Alas cousin , said shee , what shall my tongue be able to doe , which is informed by ...
... true ve- hemencie besought her that he might heare her speake , whereupon she suffered her sweet breath to turn it selfe into these kinde of words . Alas cousin , said shee , what shall my tongue be able to doe , which is informed by ...
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... true , and yet the dislike which we feel in reading them arises not so much out of their own inferiority , as from their unsuitableness and unfitness to form part of such a work . There is an incongruity in their association with the true ...
... true , and yet the dislike which we feel in reading them arises not so much out of their own inferiority , as from their unsuitableness and unfitness to form part of such a work . There is an incongruity in their association with the true ...
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Page 197 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty...
Page 85 - Yes, trust them not, for there is an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his tiger's heart wrapped in a player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes Factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.
Page 340 - I would not, with my will, present you sorrows, dear Bess ; let them go to the grave with me, and be buried in the dust : and seeing that it is not the will of God that I shall see you any more, bear my destruction patiently, and with a heart like yourself.
Page 333 - The evil bow before the good; and the wicked at the gates of the righteous. 20 The poor is hated even of his own neighbour : but the rich hath many friends.
Page 197 - They live no longer in the faith of reason ! But still the heart doth need a language, still Doth the old instinct bring back the old names, And to yon starry world they now are gone, Spirits or gods, that used to share this earth With man as with their friend ; and to the lover Yonder they move, from yonder visible sky Shoot influence down : and even at this day 'Tis Jupiter who brings whate'er is great, And Venus who brings every thing that's fair ! Thek.
Page 95 - Give me, next good, an understanding wife, By Nature wise, not learned by much art; Some knowledge on her side will all my life More scope of conversation impart; Besides, her inborne virtue fortifie; They are most firmly good, who best know why.
Page 252 - No one that had any expectations from him was safe from his public contempt and derision which some of his minions at the Bar bitterly felt. Those above, or that could hurt or benefit him, and none else, might depend on fair quarter at his hands. When he was in temper and matters indifferent came before him, he became his seat of justice better than any other I ever saw in his place.
Page 340 - First, I send you all the thanks which my heart can conceive, or my words express, for your many travails and cares for me, which, though they have not taken effect as you wished, yet my debt to you is not the less ; but pay it I never shall in this world.
Page 79 - I have seen), which notwithstanding, as it is full of stately speeches and well-sounding phrases, climbing to the height of Seneca his style, and as full of notable morality, which it doth most delightfully teach, and so obtain the very end of poesy...
Page 194 - Raptores orbis, postquam cuncta vastantibus defuere terrae, et. mare scrutantur : si locuples hostis est, avari ; si pauper, ambitiosi : quos non Oriens, non Occidens, satiaverit. Soli omnium opes atque inopiam pari affectu concupiscunt. Auferre, trucidare, rapere, falsis nominibus imperium ; atque, ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.