The Athenaeum, Volume 2W. Lewer, 1828 |
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... excellent in its kind as the most fasti- dious critic could desire . The example I am now adducing , in illustration of these remarks , are some essays , if so they may be called , whose mat- ter has been collected by an eye as keenly ...
... excellent in its kind as the most fasti- dious critic could desire . The example I am now adducing , in illustration of these remarks , are some essays , if so they may be called , whose mat- ter has been collected by an eye as keenly ...
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... excellent treatises on the various sub- When Theodora awakes , she finds herself de - jects may have been within reach . It follows , serted by her seducer , and surrounded by the enemies of her country . They carry her away , and ...
... excellent treatises on the various sub- When Theodora awakes , she finds herself de - jects may have been within reach . It follows , serted by her seducer , and surrounded by the enemies of her country . They carry her away , and ...
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... excellent , but contrary to the usual custom in England , we did not sit very long at table . The conversation , which was lively and varied , was kept up with considerable talent . The plans proposed for the improve- ment of the new ...
... excellent , but contrary to the usual custom in England , we did not sit very long at table . The conversation , which was lively and varied , was kept up with considerable talent . The plans proposed for the improve- ment of the new ...
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... excellent conductor are well enti- iled to look for at the hands of Englishmen . But the Ve . rulam ' professes a higher aim , and , indeed , a wider scope , being devoted to science as well as learning . ' : Our readers will remember ...
... excellent conductor are well enti- iled to look for at the hands of Englishmen . But the Ve . rulam ' professes a higher aim , and , indeed , a wider scope , being devoted to science as well as learning . ' : Our readers will remember ...
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... excellent man's life fills the mind with such a mixture of tenderness and admiration , that I know not any scene in history which more powerfully ex- cites our sympathy , or goes more directly to the heart . ' * Lord John Russell , the ...
... excellent man's life fills the mind with such a mixture of tenderness and admiration , that I know not any scene in history which more powerfully ex- cites our sympathy , or goes more directly to the heart . ' * Lord John Russell , the ...
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Page 420 - And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood behind them: and it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light by night to these: so that the one came not near the other all the night.
Page 420 - And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea ; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
Page 421 - There was a strong expression of sense and shrewdness in all his lineaments ; the eye alone, I think, indicated the poetical character and temperament. It was large, and of a dark cast, and glowed (I say literally glowed) when he spoke with feeling or interest.
Page 421 - His person was strong and robust ; his manners rustic, not clownish ; a sort of dignified plainness and simplicity, which received part of its effect, perhaps, from one's knowledge of his extraordinary talents. His features are represented in Mr Nasmyth's picture, but to me it conveys the idea, that they are diminished, as if seen in perspective.
Page 450 - Scarce seen, but with fresh bitterness imbued ; And slight withal may be the things which bring Back on the heart the weight which it would fling Aside for ever : it may be a sound — A tone of music, — summer's eve — or spring, A flower — the wind — the Ocean — which shall wound, Striking the electric chain wherewith we are darkly bound ; XXIV.
Page 421 - I may truly say, Virgilium vidi tantum. I was a lad of fifteen in 1786-7, when he came first to Edinburgh, but had sense and feeling enough to be much interested in his poetry, and would have given the world to know him : but I had very little acquaintance with any literary people, and still less with the gentry of the west country, the two sets that he most frequented. Mr. Thomas Grierson was at that time a clerk of my father's. He knew Burns, and promised to ask him to his lodgings to dinner ;...
Page 465 - And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind ; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things.
Page 450 - THOU art no lingerer in monarch's hall — A joy thou art, and a wealth to all! A bearer of hope unto land and sea...
Page 450 - Are bathed in a flood as of molten gold. And thou turnest not from the humblest grave, Where a flower to the sighing winds may wave ; Thou scatterest its gloom like the dreams of rest, Thou sleepest in love on its grassy breast. Sunbeam of summer ! oh, what is like thee ? Hope of the wilderness, joy of the sea! — One thing is like thee to mortals given, The faith touching all things with hues of heaven ! BREATHINGS OF SPRING.
Page 443 - In currents through the calmer water spread Around : the wild fowl nestled in the brake And sedges, brooding in their liquid bed ; The woods sloped downwards to its brink, and stood With their green faces fix'd upon the flood.