Parriana: Miscellaneous materials bearing on Parr's controversiesEdmund Henry Barker Henry Colburn, 1829 |
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... whole work , as less stiff , is more excellent than any of your other compositions ; but in characters , I repeat it , you are almost un- rivalled . And now you know your forte , I hope , as Walsh says to Pope , you will lose no ...
... whole work , as less stiff , is more excellent than any of your other compositions ; but in characters , I repeat it , you are almost un- rivalled . And now you know your forte , I hope , as Walsh says to Pope , you will lose no ...
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... whole , in teaching English . In the Greek , I found , to my equal surprise and satisfaction , an intelligent young man , who spoke French perfectly , and read Hel- vetius . In the Imperial agent of that place , I had the still greater ...
... whole , in teaching English . In the Greek , I found , to my equal surprise and satisfaction , an intelligent young man , who spoke French perfectly , and read Hel- vetius . In the Imperial agent of that place , I had the still greater ...
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... whole of the case was founded on the as- sumption of natural rights - claimed without the slightest evidence for their existence , and sup- ported by vague and declamatory generalities . If government be only the representative of ...
... whole of the case was founded on the as- sumption of natural rights - claimed without the slightest evidence for their existence , and sup- ported by vague and declamatory generalities . If government be only the representative of ...
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... whole quarto of nonsense and gibberish is too much . It is strange that a man not wholly illiterate , should have lived so long in England , without learning the language . " Mr. C. adds : " These remarks may be extended to more of ...
... whole quarto of nonsense and gibberish is too much . It is strange that a man not wholly illiterate , should have lived so long in England , without learning the language . " Mr. C. adds : " These remarks may be extended to more of ...
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... of the President , stood Benjamin Franklin , in such position as not to be visible from the situation of the President , remaining the whole time like a pa- rock , in the same posture , his head resting 20 PARRIANA : OR NOTICES OF.
... of the President , stood Benjamin Franklin , in such position as not to be visible from the situation of the President , remaining the whole time like a pa- rock , in the same posture , his head resting 20 PARRIANA : OR NOTICES OF.
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Page 438 - The time would e'er be o'er, And I on thee should look my last, And thou shouldst smile no more! And still upon that face I look, And think 'twill smile again; And still the thought I will not brook, That I must look in vain. But when I speak — thou dost not say What thou ne'er left'st...
Page 438 - And still upon that face I look, And think 'twill smile again; And still the thought I will not brook, That I must look in vain. But when I speak — thou dost not say What thou ne'er left'st unsaid; And now I feel, as well I may, Sweet Mary, thou art dead! If thou wouldst stay, e'en as thou art, All cold and all serene, I still might press thy silent heart, And where thy smiles have been.
Page 751 - The Narrow Glen In this still place, remote from men, Sleeps Ossian, in the narrow glen; In this still place, where murmurs on But one meek streamlet, only one: He sang of battles, and the breath Of stormy war, and violent death...
Page 71 - Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it, "I refute it thus.
Page 439 - Sweet Mary, thou art dead! If thou wouldst stay, e'en as thou art, All cold and all serene, I still might press thy silent heart, And where thy smiles have been. While e'en thy chill, bleak corse I have, Thou seemest still mine own; But there I lay thee in thy grave, — And I am now alone! I do not think, where'er thou art, Thou hast forgotten me; And I, perhaps, may soothe this heart In thinking, too, of thee; Yet there was round thee such a dawn Of light ne'er seen before, As fancy never could...
Page 430 - The oaks of the mountains fall ; the mountains themselves decay with years ; the ocean shrinks and grows again ; the moon herself is lost in heaven ; but thou art for ever the same rejoicing in the brightness of thy course. When the world is dark with tempests, when thunder rolls and lightning flies, thou lookest in thy beauty from the clouds, and laughest at the storm.
Page 132 - ... to rejoice with them that rejoice and to weep with them that weep...
Page 430 - But thou art perhaps, like me, for a season, and thy years will have an end. Thou shalt sleep in thy clouds, careless of the. voice of the morning. Exult then, O sun, in the strength of thy youth ! Age is dark and unlovely ; it is like the glimmering light of the moon, when it shines through broken clouds, and the mist is on the hills ; the blast of the north is on the plain, the traveller shrinks in the midst of his journey.
Page 547 - In the sight of the unwise they seemed to die, and their departure is taken for misery, and their going from us to be utter destruction. But they are in peace. For though they be punished in the sight of men yet is their hope full of immortality. And having been a little chastised they shall be greatly rewarded : for God proved them and found them worthy for Himself.
Page 548 - Yet conjectural criticism has been of great use in the learned world; nor is it my intention to depreciate a study, that has exercised so many mighty minds, from the revival of learning to our own age, from the bishop of Aleria to English Bentley.