The Analectic Magazine...: Comprising Original Reviews, Biography, Analytical Abstracts of New Publications, Volume 5Published and sold by Moses Thomas, 1815 |
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... turn ; and the prize of valour has been wrested from their feeble hands , by the descendants of those Gauls whom they once compelled to submit to the yoke of slavery . Who can deem it an impossible supposition , that , in the course of ...
... turn ; and the prize of valour has been wrested from their feeble hands , by the descendants of those Gauls whom they once compelled to submit to the yoke of slavery . Who can deem it an impossible supposition , that , in the course of ...
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... Turning from this topic , which I did not feel myself qualified to discuss , I touched him on the subject of the emperor . This I did very gently , by observing that Napoleon was a man of extraordinary genius . On hearing his 10 SELECT ...
... Turning from this topic , which I did not feel myself qualified to discuss , I touched him on the subject of the emperor . This I did very gently , by observing that Napoleon was a man of extraordinary genius . On hearing his 10 SELECT ...
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... turn with eagerness to the sermons on the Seasons , for the farther elucidation of this interesting doc- trine ; and they will be fully gratified ; -- though we can afford to make but a few extracts from this portion of the volume . We ...
... turn with eagerness to the sermons on the Seasons , for the farther elucidation of this interesting doc- trine ; and they will be fully gratified ; -- though we can afford to make but a few extracts from this portion of the volume . We ...
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... turn to renovate the winter of nature . It is now you may understand the magnificent language of heaven - it mingles its voice with that of revelation - it summons you , in these hours when the leaves fall , and the winter is gathering ...
... turn to renovate the winter of nature . It is now you may understand the magnificent language of heaven - it mingles its voice with that of revelation - it summons you , in these hours when the leaves fall , and the winter is gathering ...
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... turn now to what may be called the political discourses ; and , disgusted as we have been with the hollow vaunting and hos- tile imprecations with which most of our pulpits have resounded for the last twenty years - we turn to them with ...
... turn now to what may be called the political discourses ; and , disgusted as we have been with the hollow vaunting and hos- tile imprecations with which most of our pulpits have resounded for the last twenty years - we turn to them with ...
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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.