The Analectic Magazine...: Comprising Original Reviews, Biography, Analytical Abstracts of New Publications, Volume 5Published and sold by Moses Thomas, 1815 |
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... look after his horse . I told him I had not yet dined , but that if he would become my guest , I should be happy to see him . He accordingly accompanied me to our apartment . On his recur- ring to the subject of Bonaparte's character ...
... look after his horse . I told him I had not yet dined , but that if he would become my guest , I should be happy to see him . He accordingly accompanied me to our apartment . On his recur- ring to the subject of Bonaparte's character ...
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... look forward to that kindred evening which time must bring to all - we anticipate the graves of those we hate , as of those we love . Every unkind pas- sion falls , with the leaves that fall around us ; and we return slowly to our homes ...
... look forward to that kindred evening which time must bring to all - we anticipate the graves of those we hate , as of those we love . Every unkind pas- sion falls , with the leaves that fall around us ; and we return slowly to our homes ...
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... look to futurity with tears , it is your pity and forbearance which can give him more than wealth , and rekindle anew the spirit of industry , and the hope of better days . If it be the gray hairs of the decayed labourer which bend ...
... look to futurity with tears , it is your pity and forbearance which can give him more than wealth , and rekindle anew the spirit of industry , and the hope of better days . If it be the gray hairs of the decayed labourer which bend ...
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... of their country , and a knowledge of the reasons for which it should be loved . We begin with the fast sermon of 1801 , immediately after the breaking of the peace of Amiens . " When we look back , " says the preacher 24 SELECT REVIEWS .
... of their country , and a knowledge of the reasons for which it should be loved . We begin with the fast sermon of 1801 , immediately after the breaking of the peace of Amiens . " When we look back , " says the preacher 24 SELECT REVIEWS .
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... look for the causes of these awful events ? We shall find them in their national sins ; in the corruption of their private manners ; in the in- justice or oppression of their internal governments ; or in the ambition or avarice of their ...
... look for the causes of these awful events ? We shall find them in their national sins ; in the corruption of their private manners ; in the in- justice or oppression of their internal governments ; or in the ambition or avarice of their ...
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Page 326 - Then shakes his powder'd coat, and barks for joy. Heedless of all his pranks, the sturdy churl Moves right toward the mark ; nor stops for aught, But now and then with pressure of his thumb T...
Page 67 - There is so much in them, which comes not under the province of acting, with which eye, and tone, and gesture, have nothing to do.
Page 383 - Though my perishing ranks should be strewed in their gore, Like ocean-weeds heaped on the surf-beaten shore, Lochiel, untainted by flight or by chains, While the kindling of life in his bosom remains, Shall victor exult, or in death be laid low, With his back to the field, and his feet to the foe ! And leaving in battle no blot on his name, Look proudly to heaven from the death-bed of fame.
Page 72 - ... such deep affections as had subsisted between Hamlet and Ophelia there is a stock of supererogatory love (if I may venture to use the expression), which in any great grief of heart, especially where that which preys upon the mind cannot be communicated, confers a kind of indulgence upon the grieved party to express itself, even to its heart's dearest object, in the language of a temporary alienation ; but it is not alienation, it is...
Page 69 - ... sequestered parts of the palace to pour forth; or rather, they are the silent meditations with which his bosom is bursting, reduced to words for the sake of the reader, who must else remain ignorant of what is passing there. These profound sorrows, these light-andnoise-abhorring ruminations, which the tongue scarce dares utter to deaf walls and chambers, how can they be represented by a gesticulating actor, who comes and mouths them out before an audience, making four hundred people his confidants...
Page 66 - ... in the consideration which we pay to the actor, but even to identify in our minds in a perverse manner, the actor with the character which he represents. It is difficult for a frequent playgoer to disembarrass the idea of Hamlet from the person and voice of Mr. K. We speak of Lady Macbeth, while we are in reality thinking of Mrs. S.
Page 22 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me : and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me : because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me ; and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Page 159 - ... deformities, which figure (such is the power of true genius) neither acts nor is meant to act as a contrast, but diffuses through all and over each of the group a spirit of reconciliation and human kindness ; and even when the attention is no longer consciously directed to the cause of this feeling, still blends its tenderness with our laughter, and thus prevents the instructive merriment at the whims of Nature, or the foibles or humours of our fellow-men, from degenerating into the heart-poison...
Page 343 - His gardens next your admiration call; On every side you look, behold the wall! No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene ; Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other.
Page 22 - The young men saw me, and hid themselves : and the aged arose, and stood up.