The Retrospective Review, and Historical and Antiquarian Magazine, Volume 2Charles and Henry Baldwyn, 1820 |
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... of compassion . With a mind , glowing with images of heroism , and filled with the brightest creations and the fairest visions of human and more than hu- man excellence ; with a heart which embraced , in Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia . 3.
... of compassion . With a mind , glowing with images of heroism , and filled with the brightest creations and the fairest visions of human and more than hu- man excellence ; with a heart which embraced , in Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia . 3.
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... mind are fabricated . Unfortunately for the world , the variety of his power and the diversity of his employments prevented him from bestowing on literature the whole energy of his mind , and thus such of his compositions as remain were ...
... mind are fabricated . Unfortunately for the world , the variety of his power and the diversity of his employments prevented him from bestowing on literature the whole energy of his mind , and thus such of his compositions as remain were ...
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... mind must de- pend for its allowance . Like all other works of genius , it is ir- regularly and unequally written , diversified by occasional risings and falls , ascents to grandeur and sinkings to littleness : yet , from beginning to ...
... mind must de- pend for its allowance . Like all other works of genius , it is ir- regularly and unequally written , diversified by occasional risings and falls , ascents to grandeur and sinkings to littleness : yet , from beginning to ...
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... mind would , like the ring of the tyrant , be prodigally and lavishly cast away , and more would be lost in the pursuit of perfection , than perfection itself could compen → sate for . We will now give a short outline of the story ...
... mind would , like the ring of the tyrant , be prodigally and lavishly cast away , and more would be lost in the pursuit of perfection , than perfection itself could compen → sate for . We will now give a short outline of the story ...
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... perceives in his guest by every exertion in his power . His own peace of mind is shortly afterwards disturbed , by the intelligence that Clitiphon , his son , has been taken prisoner by the Helots , a people Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia .
... perceives in his guest by every exertion in his power . His own peace of mind is shortly afterwards disturbed , by the intelligence that Clitiphon , his son , has been taken prisoner by the Helots , a people Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia .
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Page 196 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty...
Page 84 - 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 196 - 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 339 - You shall now receive (my dear wife) my last words, in these my last lines. My Love I send you, that you may keep it, when I am dead, and my Counsel that you may remember it, when I am no more; I would not by my will present you with Sorrows (Dear Bess).
Page 345 - Sweete wordes, like dropping honny, she did shed, And twixt the perles and rubins softly brake A silver sound, that heavenly musicke seemd to make.
Page 94 - 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 332 - 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 78 - 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 213 - That not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom ; what is more, is fume, Or emptiness, or fond impertinence, And renders us, in things that most concern, Unpractised, unprepared, and still to seek.
Page 21 - O all-seeing light, and eternal life of all things, to whom nothing is either so great that it may resist, or so small that it is contemned : look upon my misery with Thine eye of mercy, and let Thine infinite power vouchsafe to limit out some proportion of deliverance unto me, as to Thee shall seem most convenient.