The Retrospective Review, Volume 2Charles and Henry Baldwyn, 1820 - Books |
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... genius , while yet it has only produced the blossoms of paradise , blighted and destroyed before they are ripened into fruit . There is something very melancholy in the thoughts , how many bright ideas and noble creations , how many ...
... genius , while yet it has only produced the blossoms of paradise , blighted and destroyed before they are ripened into fruit . There is something very melancholy in the thoughts , how many bright ideas and noble creations , how many ...
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... genius with an envelope not less delightfully tinted than the covering of the yet unopened rose - bud , and which breathed over all his productions an exquisite finish and relief ; he posses- sed all the essential qualities , from whose ...
... genius with an envelope not less delightfully tinted than the covering of the yet unopened rose - bud , and which breathed over all his productions an exquisite finish and relief ; he posses- sed all the essential qualities , from whose ...
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... genius extant , to give him a very high place amongst the au- thors of our country . It is , perhaps , the most beautifully writ- ten prose composition of the Elizabethan age , impregnated with the very soul and spirit of poetry , and ...
... genius extant , to give him a very high place amongst the au- thors of our country . It is , perhaps , the most beautifully writ- ten prose composition of the Elizabethan age , impregnated with the very soul and spirit of poetry , and ...
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... genius , such meltings down of the massive gold of our ancestors for the poses of modern frippery , have much of bad taste in them , if not something of profanation . They resemble , in the boldness of their attempts and the weakness of ...
... genius , such meltings down of the massive gold of our ancestors for the poses of modern frippery , have much of bad taste in them , if not something of profanation . They resemble , in the boldness of their attempts and the weakness of ...
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... genius , and whose names were in their own age held up to an almost idolatrous admiration , have left behind them memo- rials sufficient to justify their fame . In the scanty remains which time has left us of the genius of Crichton , we ...
... genius , and whose names were in their own age held up to an almost idolatrous admiration , have left behind them memo- rials sufficient to justify their fame . In the scanty remains which time has left us of the genius of Crichton , we ...
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Page 197 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty...
Page 85 - 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 340 - I would not, with my will, present you sorrows, dear Bess ; let them go to the grave with me, and be buried in the dust : and seeing that it is not the will of God that I shall see you any more, bear my destruction patiently, and with a heart like yourself.
Page 333 - 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 197 - 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 95 - 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 252 - No one that had any expectations from him was safe from his public contempt and derision which some of his minions at the Bar bitterly felt. Those above, or that could hurt or benefit him, and none else, might depend on fair quarter at his hands. When he was in temper and matters indifferent came before him, he became his seat of justice better than any other I ever saw in his place.
Page 340 - First, I send you all the thanks which my heart can conceive, or my words express, for your many travails and cares for me, which, though they have not taken effect as you wished, yet my debt to you is not the less ; but pay it I never shall in this world.
Page 79 - 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 194 - Raptores orbis, postquam cuncta vastantibus defuere terrae, et. mare scrutantur : si locuples hostis est, avari ; si pauper, ambitiosi : quos non Oriens, non Occidens, satiaverit. Soli omnium opes atque inopiam pari affectu concupiscunt. Auferre, trucidare, rapere, falsis nominibus imperium ; atque, ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.