The Retrospective Review, Volume 2Charles and Henry Baldwyn, 1820 - Books |
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... soon led to the slaughter . Such was the fate of Sir Philip Sidney ; and the pity which it excites should surely prevent us from treating his works , as they have been treated , with sneering insolence and cold - blooded vitupera- tion ...
... soon led to the slaughter . Such was the fate of Sir Philip Sidney ; and the pity which it excites should surely prevent us from treating his works , as they have been treated , with sneering insolence and cold - blooded vitupera- tion ...
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... soon interrupted : Pyrocles , by degrees , becomes enamoured of solitude , and notwithstanding the expostulations of his friend , addicts himself to solitary mu- sing and contemplation - the first symptom of nascent love . Nothing can ...
... soon interrupted : Pyrocles , by degrees , becomes enamoured of solitude , and notwithstanding the expostulations of his friend , addicts himself to solitary mu- sing and contemplation - the first symptom of nascent love . Nothing can ...
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... soon too violent to be repressed : he therefore determines to leave the habitation of Kalander , and , though with much reluctance , his friend Musidorus , in the furtherance and prosecution of his desire . Attiring himself in the dress ...
... soon too violent to be repressed : he therefore determines to leave the habitation of Kalander , and , though with much reluctance , his friend Musidorus , in the furtherance and prosecution of his desire . Attiring himself in the dress ...
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... soon as he prevails upon Philoclea , who had now become ac- quainted with his real character , to accompany him . To facili- tate their flight , Dametas and his family are despatched on fools ' errands out of the way ; and taking ...
... soon as he prevails upon Philoclea , who had now become ac- quainted with his real character , to accompany him . To facili- tate their flight , Dametas and his family are despatched on fools ' errands out of the way ; and taking ...
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... Soon to that mass of nonsense to return , Where things destroy'd are swept to things unborn . " * The family of the Lillys were hereditary yeomen in the obscure town of Diseworth in Leicestershire ; a town of great 66 * Besides his ...
... Soon to that mass of nonsense to return , Where things destroy'd are swept to things unborn . " * The family of the Lillys were hereditary yeomen in the obscure town of Diseworth in Leicestershire ; a town of great 66 * Besides his ...
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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.