The Reflector: A Quarterly Magazine, on Subjects of Philosophy, Politics, and the Liberal Arts, Volume 2Leigh Hunt |
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... The good and inexperienced will be particularly warm to the last mo- ment , -- granting that such a moment is to arrive . What What tho ' no credit doubting wits may give , 6 THE REFLECTOR . - Character of the Prince Regent .
... The good and inexperienced will be particularly warm to the last mo- ment , -- granting that such a moment is to arrive . What What tho ' no credit doubting wits may give , 6 THE REFLECTOR . - Character of the Prince Regent .
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... give way to frivolous partialities and tastes , unseasonable to the times , and inconsistent with English character ? Who shall tell him , that it is our vital object , and therefore his vital object , not to outshine the French in what ...
... give way to frivolous partialities and tastes , unseasonable to the times , and inconsistent with English character ? Who shall tell him , that it is our vital object , and therefore his vital object , not to outshine the French in what ...
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... give the preference to that mode which habit and association have rendered most agreeable and edifying to the individual is not error , for it is no assertion of opinion , but merely following a law of our nature . A person was once ...
... give the preference to that mode which habit and association have rendered most agreeable and edifying to the individual is not error , for it is no assertion of opinion , but merely following a law of our nature . A person was once ...
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... give formal exist- ence , to make any thing what it is , " he is guilty of a solecism , indeed of an Irishism : --- what is , is already made ; and to talk of making a thing which already is , is going beyond the sailor's definition of ...
... give formal exist- ence , to make any thing what it is , " he is guilty of a solecism , indeed of an Irishism : --- what is , is already made ; and to talk of making a thing which already is , is going beyond the sailor's definition of ...
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... give the perception of turgidity and ill - applied effort . The following lines in the description of the vintage , afford a singular mixture of vulgar and lofty phraseology : ~ - Then comes the crushing swain , the country floats And ...
... give the perception of turgidity and ill - applied effort . The following lines in the description of the vintage , afford a singular mixture of vulgar and lofty phraseology : ~ - Then comes the crushing swain , the country floats And ...
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Page 135 - Hear, Nature, hear ! dear goddess, hear ! Suspend thy purpose, if thou didst intend To make this creature fruitful ! Into her womb convey sterility ! Dry up in her the organs of increase, And from her derogate body never spring A babe to honour her ! If she must teem...
Page 123 - Ye have the account Of my performance : what remains, ye gods ! But up, and enter now into full bliss ?" So having said, a while he stood, expecting Their universal shout, and high applause, To fill his ear ; when, contrary, he hears On all sides, from innumerable tongues, A dismal universal hiss, the sound Of public scorn...
Page 284 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...
Page 140 - But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature.
Page 286 - ... from the ordinary purposes of life, but exerting its powers, as the wind blows where it listeth, at will upon the corruptions and abuses of mankind. What have looks or tones to do with that sublime identification of his age with that of the heavens themselves, when, in his reproaches to them for conniving at the injustice of his children, he reminds them that
Page 79 - twixt south and southwest side; On either which he would dispute, Confute, change hands, and still confute. He'd undertake to prove by force Of argument, a man's no horse; He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl, And that a lord may be an owl; A calf an alderman, a goose a justice, And rooks committee-men and trustees.
Page 287 - What gesture shall we appropriate to this ? What has the voice or the eye to do with such things ? But the play is beyond all art, as the tamperings with it show ; it is too hard and stony ; it must have love-scenes and a happy ending. It is not enough that Cordelia is a daughter, she must shine as a lover too. Tate has put his hook in the nostrils of this Leviathan, for Garrick and his followers, the showmen of the scene, to draw the mighty beast about more easily.
Page 352 - ... their frantic gall On the darling thing whatever, Whence they feel it death to sever, Though it be, as they, perforce, Guiltless of the sad divorce, For I must (nor let it grieve thee Friendliest of plants, that I must) leave thee. For thy sake, TOBACCO, I Would do anything but die, And but seek to extend my days Long enough to sing thy praise. But, as she, who once hath been A king's consort, is a queen Ever after, nor will bate Any tittle of her state...
Page 48 - Then shakes his powdered coat, and barks for joy. Heedless of all his pranks, the sturdy churl Moves right toward the mark ; nor stops for aught But now and then with pressure of his thumb T...
Page 137 - tis fittest. Cor. How does my royal lord? How fares your majesty? Lear. You do me wrong, to take me out o' the grave. — Thou art a soul in bliss ; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead.