New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 10Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth Henry Colburn, 1818 |
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... moral , or sublime , he has concealed or mentioned slightly ; his chief study was to invest the whole in the ... morality . By thus pervert- ing and vitiating the original , Pope was the more inexcusable , as the lofty and generous ideas ...
... moral , or sublime , he has concealed or mentioned slightly ; his chief study was to invest the whole in the ... morality . By thus pervert- ing and vitiating the original , Pope was the more inexcusable , as the lofty and generous ideas ...
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... moral point of view , its poetical beauties are numerous . What , for instance , can be more finely con- ceived , or more exquisitely expressed , than the following description of the effects of melancholy on surrounding ob- jects ...
... moral point of view , its poetical beauties are numerous . What , for instance , can be more finely con- ceived , or more exquisitely expressed , than the following description of the effects of melancholy on surrounding ob- jects ...
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... moral reputation is con- sidered pretty much on a level with his literary one . There can be no doubt but he heartily repents of his emigration , and wishes himself here again in the midst of all those miseries he says he fled from ...
... moral reputation is con- sidered pretty much on a level with his literary one . There can be no doubt but he heartily repents of his emigration , and wishes himself here again in the midst of all those miseries he says he fled from ...
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... morals . The Dissenters at the period alluded to carried the spirit of opposition to such a pitch as to refuse to enter the churches where the habits were worn , or organs were used ; and when they met the re- gular clergy in the ...
... morals . The Dissenters at the period alluded to carried the spirit of opposition to such a pitch as to refuse to enter the churches where the habits were worn , or organs were used ; and when they met the re- gular clergy in the ...
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... moral and physical system . The earth , according to one philosopher , is nothing more than a spent comet , which , after wandering like an idle va- grant for many ages , became steady at last , and an orderly member of the pla- netary ...
... moral and physical system . The earth , according to one philosopher , is nothing more than a spent comet , which , after wandering like an idle va- grant for many ages , became steady at last , and an orderly member of the pla- netary ...
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Page 119 - Over thy decent shoulders drawn. Come, but keep thy wonted state, With even step and musing gait, And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes...
Page 132 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd.
Page 36 - Theirs buxom health, of rosy hue, Wild wit, invention ever new, And lively cheer, of vigour born ; The thoughtless day, the easy night, The spirits pure, the slumbers light, That fly th
Page 546 - In the name of the Most Holy and Indivisible Trinity, " Their majesties, the emperor of Austria, the king of Prussia, and the emperor of Russia...
Page 36 - Ah happy hills, ah pleasing shade, Ah fields belov'd in vain, Where once my careless childhood stray'd, A stranger yet to pain...
Page 118 - Fountain heads, and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves ! Moonlight walks, when all the fowls Are warmly housed, save bats and owls ! A midnight bell, a parting groan ! These are the sounds we feed upon ; Then stretch our bones in a still gloomy valley ; Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.
Page 39 - An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by vesting the Copies of printed Books in the Authors or Purchasers of such Copies during the Times therein mentioned...
Page 157 - The moon is up, and yet it is not night; Sunset divides the sky with her; a sea Of glory streams along the Alpine height Of blue Friuli's mountains; Heaven is free From clouds, but of all colours seems to be, — Melted to one vast Iris of the West, — Where the Day joins the past Eternity, While, on the other hand, meek Dian's crest Floats through the azure air — an island of the blest!
Page 295 - Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?
Page 159 - But I have lived, and have not lived in vain : My mind may lose its force, my blood its fire, And my frame perish even in conquering pain, But there is that within me which shall tire Torture and Time, and breathe when I expire...