The Retrospective Review, Volume 9Charles and Henry Baldwyn, 1824 - Books |
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... poet , as a political or moral speculator . We must not expect from Milton a defence of the freedom of the press built on the same principles , or ar- gued with the same precision and perspicuity , which we should look for in the ...
... poet , as a political or moral speculator . We must not expect from Milton a defence of the freedom of the press built on the same principles , or ar- gued with the same precision and perspicuity , which we should look for in the ...
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... poets , and historians of Greece and Rome , to have turned their attention with success to the severer pursuits of ... poet , or a cita- tion from a classical historian , usually passed for irrefragable evidence of the certainty of any ...
... poets , and historians of Greece and Rome , to have turned their attention with success to the severer pursuits of ... poet , or a cita- tion from a classical historian , usually passed for irrefragable evidence of the certainty of any ...
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... poet , the oration before us is the most valuable , both with regard to its literary merits and the deep and never - failing interest of the subject - matter . On this account we have given it the pre- ference over many longer and more ...
... poet , the oration before us is the most valuable , both with regard to its literary merits and the deep and never - failing interest of the subject - matter . On this account we have given it the pre- ference over many longer and more ...
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... poet , Davenant , and flying to France for safety ; where he died " a batchelor , " at the age of either twenty- eight or thirty - two years , according as the differing accounts of his birth may be correct . Such was the brief career ...
... poet , Davenant , and flying to France for safety ; where he died " a batchelor , " at the age of either twenty- eight or thirty - two years , according as the differing accounts of his birth may be correct . Such was the brief career ...
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... poets of his time ; for , that they possessed great sensibility , there can be no doubt ; and there can be as little , that it was not capable of developing itself in a natural manner , owing to the universal prevalence of a scho ...
... poets of his time ; for , that they possessed great sensibility , there can be no doubt ; and there can be as little , that it was not capable of developing itself in a natural manner , owing to the universal prevalence of a scho ...
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Page 314 - Lone wandering, but not lost. All day thy wings have fanned At that far height, the cold thin atmosphere; Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome land, Though the dark night is near.
Page 31 - Why so pale and wan, fond lover? Prithee, why so pale? Will, when looking well can't move her, Looking ill prevail? Prithee, why so pale?
Page 12 - Osiris, took the virgin truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds. From that time ever since, the sad friends of truth, such as durst appear, imitating the careful search that Isis made for the mangled body of Osiris, went up and down gathering up limb by limb still as they could find them.
Page 314 - midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.
Page 361 - I know that all the muse's heavenly lays, With toil of sprite which are so dearly bought, As idle sounds, of few or none are sought, That there is nothing lighter than mere praise.
Page 314 - Seek'st thou the plashy brink Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide, Or where the rocking billows rise and sink On the chafed ocean side? • There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast.— The desert and illimitable air,— Lone wandering, but not lost.
Page 12 - Him were laid asleep, then straight arose a wicked race of deceivers, who, as that story goes of the Egyptian Typhon, i with his conspirators, how they dealt with the good Osiris, took the virgin Truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds. From that time ever since, the sad friends of...
Page 13 - To be still searching what we know not, by what we know, still closing up truth to truth as we find it (for all her body is homogeneal, and proportional) this is the golden rule in Theology as well as in Arithmetic, and makes up the best harmony in a church; not the forced and outward union of cold, and neutral, and inwardly divided minds.
Page 364 - Since that dear voice which did thy sounds approve, Which wont in such harmonious strains to flow, Is reft from earth to tune those spheres above, What art thou but a harbinger of woe? Thy pleasing notes be pleasing notes no more, But orphans...
Page 18 - Lords and Commons of England, consider what nation it is whereof ye are and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.