New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 2Henry Colburn, 1821 |
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... Language Sonnet from Vincenzio da Filicaja Humboldt's Travels The Mountain King , from a Swedish Legend 249 .251 , 427 .. 258 260 265 ..268,376 276 277 ib . 285 299 303 308 313 314 318 319 Nice Men 321 Ugolino 327 Snuff - taking 336 ...
... Language Sonnet from Vincenzio da Filicaja Humboldt's Travels The Mountain King , from a Swedish Legend 249 .251 , 427 .. 258 260 265 ..268,376 276 277 ib . 285 299 303 308 313 314 318 319 Nice Men 321 Ugolino 327 Snuff - taking 336 ...
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... language of that place where ( as Addison says ) " they sell the best fish , and speak the plainest English . " - Lamotte's ( a French critic ) observations on Homer are still more amusing . " We see not , " he says , " in the Iliad ...
... language of that place where ( as Addison says ) " they sell the best fish , and speak the plainest English . " - Lamotte's ( a French critic ) observations on Homer are still more amusing . " We see not , " he says , " in the Iliad ...
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... languages , and fraught with the cha- racteristics of different ages and countries , it is difficult to com- pare them closely with those of Homer . But it needs only a slight insight into both to be struck by the high superiority of ...
... languages , and fraught with the cha- racteristics of different ages and countries , it is difficult to com- pare them closely with those of Homer . But it needs only a slight insight into both to be struck by the high superiority of ...
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... language , wished very much absolutely to prohibit the interlacing and dove- tailing one parenthesis within another . Now every Englishman laments that the English language should be so much excluded as it is from diplomacy ; and yet ...
... language , wished very much absolutely to prohibit the interlacing and dove- tailing one parenthesis within another . Now every Englishman laments that the English language should be so much excluded as it is from diplomacy ; and yet ...
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... language of his art , and takes up the story immediately after the death of the noble sinner . Michael the archangel - who by a traditional belief , universal in Spain , and probably common to all Catholic countries , is considered to ...
... language of his art , and takes up the story immediately after the death of the noble sinner . Michael the archangel - who by a traditional belief , universal in Spain , and probably common to all Catholic countries , is considered to ...
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Page 292 - So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the Fruit, she pluck'd, she eat: Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her Works gave signs of woe, That all was lost.
Page 265 - And time and place are lost ; where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy, amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand...
Page 60 - Lo, the poor Indian ! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way...
Page 128 - Tell us, for doubtless thou canst recollect, To whom should we assign the Sphinx's fame ? Was Cheops or Cephrenes architect Of either pyramid that bears his name ? Is Pompey's pillar really a misnomer ? Had Thebes a hundred gates, as sung by Homer...
Page 265 - Who, that surveys this span of earth we press, — This speck of life in time's great wilderness, This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas, The past, the future, two eternities ! — Would sully the bright spot, or leave it bare, When he might build him a proud temple there A name that long shall hallow all its space, And be each purer soul's high resting-place?
Page 103 - His doubts might have been indeed pardoned ; for, except perhaps the flying fish, there was no race existing on the earth, in the air, or the waters, who were the object of such an unintermitting, general, and relentless persecution as the Jews of this period. Upon the slightest and most unreasonable pretences, as well as upon accusations the most absurd and groundless, their persons and property were exposed to every turn of popular fury...
Page 58 - But worthier still of note Are those fraternal Four of Borrowdale, Joined in one solemn and capacious grove ; Huge trunks ! and each particular trunk a growth Of intertwisted fibres serpentine Up-coiling, and inveterately convolved...
Page 305 - Out of my grief and my impatience Answer'd neglectingly, I know not what, He should, or he should not ; for he made me mad To see him shine so brisk, and smell so sweet, And talk so like a waiting-gentlewoman...
Page 465 - See here, what a mighty pretty Horace I have in my pocket ! what if you amused yourself in turning an ode, till we mount again? Lord! if you pleased, what a clever Miscellany might you make at leisure hours ?
Page 366 - O friendly to the best pursuits of man, Friendly to thought, to virtue, and to peace...