The New-York Literary Gazette, and Phi Beta Kappa Repository, Volume 1James G. Brooks, 1826 - Literature |
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... fair one ! " said I to myself . " Alas ! how uncertain is the return which thou mayst meet with for all this tenderness and truth ; how probable it is that thou art only corresponding with some gay deceiver , and returning genuine ...
... fair one ! " said I to myself . " Alas ! how uncertain is the return which thou mayst meet with for all this tenderness and truth ; how probable it is that thou art only corresponding with some gay deceiver , and returning genuine ...
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... fair to remark a failing point of and unworldly man . " Poor old Tupto will this sort in reference to such writers nibble to a certainty , he will swallow the as I am now speaking of . They are poets bait , " said the one . " What lots ...
... fair to remark a failing point of and unworldly man . " Poor old Tupto will this sort in reference to such writers nibble to a certainty , he will swallow the as I am now speaking of . They are poets bait , " said the one . " What lots ...
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... fair maiden . A for all his life , and yet not have the most dis- man may be in love for twenty years , -nay , deal with . Cupid is a very Proteus . The tant notion of the sort of person he has to cameleon never assumes so vast a ...
... fair maiden . A for all his life , and yet not have the most dis- man may be in love for twenty years , -nay , deal with . Cupid is a very Proteus . The tant notion of the sort of person he has to cameleon never assumes so vast a ...
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... fair , So lovely and so pure in mind . Mary , I thought my greatest bliss Would be , that heaven thy life should spare , To know my fame and happiness , And with me all my fortune share , This is denied , for thou art now A tenant of ...
... fair , So lovely and so pure in mind . Mary , I thought my greatest bliss Would be , that heaven thy life should spare , To know my fame and happiness , And with me all my fortune share , This is denied , for thou art now A tenant of ...
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... fair understanding with use them . We look to the ladies to assist us the public at our outset , and to acquaint them in this department - they are adepts in the with the general object of our undertaking ; art of puzzling the lords of ...
... fair understanding with use them . We look to the ladies to assist us the public at our outset , and to acquaint them in this department - they are adepts in the with the general object of our undertaking ; art of puzzling the lords of ...
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Page 119 - Now, therein, of all sciences (I speak still of human, and according to the human conceit) is our poet the monarch. For he doth not only show the way, but giveth so sweet a prospect into the way as will entice any man to enter into it...
Page 118 - Adam, since our erected wit maketh us know what perfection is, and yet our infected will keepeth us from reaching unto it.
Page 393 - ... settling over some devoted victim of the deep. His eye kindles at the sight, and balancing himself with half-opened wings on the branch, he watches the result. Down, rapid as an arrow from heaven, descends the distant object of his attention, the roar of its wings reaching the ear, as it disappears in the deep, making the surges foam around ! At this moment the eager looks of the eagle are all...
Page 370 - SHALL I, wasting in despair, Die because a woman's fair? Or make pale my cheeks with care 'Cause another's rosy are? Be she fairer than the day, Or the flowery meads in May, If she think not well of me, What care I how fair she be?
Page 118 - ... deeds and praises of their gods, — a sufficient probability that, if ever learning come among them, it must be by having their hard dull wits softened and sharpened with the sweet delights of poetry; for until they find a pleasure in the...
Page 119 - Now doth the peerless poet perform both : for whatsoever the philosopher saith should be done, he giveth a perfect picture of it in some one, by whom he presupposeth it was done. So as he coupleth the general notion with the particular example. A perfect picture, I say; for he yieldeth to the powers of the mind an image of that whereof the philosopher bestoweth but a wordish description: which doth neither strike, pierce, nor possess the sight of the soul so much as that other doth.
Page 121 - I conjure you all that have had the evil luck to read this ink-wasting toy of mine, even in the name of the nine Muses, no more to scorn the sacred mysteries of...
Page 201 - While this, with reverence meet, Ten thousand echoes greet, From rock to rock repeat Round our coast ; While the manners, while the arts, That mould a nation's soul, Still cling around our hearts, — Between let Ocean roll, Our joint communion breaking with the sun : Yet still from either beach The voice of blood shall reach, More audible than speech, "We are One.
Page 120 - By these, therefore, examples and reasons, I think it may be manifest, that the poet, with that same hand of delight, doth draw the mind more effectually than any other art doth.
Page 121 - For example, we are ravished with delight to see a fair woman, and yet are far from being moved to laughter. We laugh at deformed creatures wherein certainly we cannot delight.