The Athenaeum: A Magazine of Literary and Miscellaneous Information ..., Volume 1John Aikin Longmans, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807 |
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... less , in greater proportion than at present , both on account of the narrower range of general reading , and the more religious character of the age . Of the difference in the latter respect , at least in externals , a remarkable ...
... less , in greater proportion than at present , both on account of the narrower range of general reading , and the more religious character of the age . Of the difference in the latter respect , at least in externals , a remarkable ...
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... less absurd , have frequently pro- ceeded from persons not in a lunatic house . The late Dr. Darwin has given abundant proof of possessing not only a sound mind , but an uncommon degree of sagacity ; but if he had been known only by his ...
... less absurd , have frequently pro- ceeded from persons not in a lunatic house . The late Dr. Darwin has given abundant proof of possessing not only a sound mind , but an uncommon degree of sagacity ; but if he had been known only by his ...
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... less of the state of learning among the Greeks . At this period , both a clearer and more steady light begins to be thrown upon history , and the efforts of genius become more frequent and successful . It : was then that the cyclic ...
... less of the state of learning among the Greeks . At this period , both a clearer and more steady light begins to be thrown upon history , and the efforts of genius become more frequent and successful . It : was then that the cyclic ...
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... less faithful , never diverted him from his ordinary studies . He bestowed on it only the time which would have been otherwise destined to his leisure or repose , and if on the one hand he lavished his riches with profusion , he sought ...
... less faithful , never diverted him from his ordinary studies . He bestowed on it only the time which would have been otherwise destined to his leisure or repose , and if on the one hand he lavished his riches with profusion , he sought ...
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... less of Greek , in a long Latin epistle , full of quotations , and critical disquisitions , devoted entirely to an examination of the Dionysiacs of Nonnus , and no less foreign to her in its object than its language . This collection ...
... less of Greek , in a long Latin epistle , full of quotations , and critical disquisitions , devoted entirely to an examination of the Dionysiacs of Nonnus , and no less foreign to her in its object than its language . This collection ...
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Page 459 - Now o'er the one half world Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse The curtain'd sleep ; now witchcraft celebrates Pale Hecate's offerings ; and wither'd murder, Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost.
Page 263 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep : All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night.
Page 114 - At the same time I think a person who is thus terrified with the imagination of ghosts and spectres much more reasonable, than one who, contrary to the reports of all historians, sacred and profane, ancient and modern, and to the traditions of all nations, thinks the appearance of spirits fabulous and groundless.
Page 74 - Chronicles of England, France, Spain, and the adjoining Countries, from the latter part of the Reign of Edward II. to the Coronation of Henry IV.
Page 4 - Not to keep you in suspense, I mean plainly that part of the sex who paint. They are some of them so exquisitely skilful this way, that give them but a tolerable pair of eyes to set up with, and they will make bosom, lips, cheeks, and eye-brows, by their own industry.
Page 113 - Our British gardeners, on the contrary, instead of humouring nature, love to deviate from it as much as possible. Our trees rise in cones, globes, and pyramids. We see the marks of the scissors upon every plant and bush.
Page 59 - Through all this hillock's crumbling mould Once the warm life-blood ran; Here thine original behold, And here thy ruins, Man! Methinks this dust yet heaves with breath: Ten thousand pulses beat ; Tell me, — in this small hill of death, How many mortals meet? By wafting winds and flooding rains From ocean, earth, and sky, Collected here, the frail remains Of slumbering millions lie.
Page 467 - 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 136 - Experiments should tirst be made, least the disease should assume in them so new a form as to be capable of being returned to us with interest. If it succeeded, man has means in his hand which would thin the Hyenas, Wolves, Jackals, and all gregarious beasts of prey. NB If any of our patriotic societies should think proper to award a gold medal, silver cup, or other remuneration to either of these methods, the projector has left his address with the Editor.
Page 118 - I sat with them until it was very late, sometimes in merry, sometimes in serious discourse, with this particular pleasure, which gives the only true relish to all conversation, a sense that every one of us liked each other. I went home, considering the different conditions of a married...