University Magazine: A Literary and Philosophic Review, Volume 45W. Curry, jun., and Company, 1855 |
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... character , and pre- serves its channel , after a twelve miles ' run from that handsome old dowager city , Chester a perfect Ninon de l'Enclos of stone , mortar , and timber , around whose fair walls , and witch - like domiciles , and ...
... character , and pre- serves its channel , after a twelve miles ' run from that handsome old dowager city , Chester a perfect Ninon de l'Enclos of stone , mortar , and timber , around whose fair walls , and witch - like domiciles , and ...
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... character . With their mis- deeds are brought into light all the peculiarities of the society to which they belong - stripped of their affecta- tions and disguises , exhibiting in their native truth the passions , habits , and feelings ...
... character . With their mis- deeds are brought into light all the peculiarities of the society to which they belong - stripped of their affecta- tions and disguises , exhibiting in their native truth the passions , habits , and feelings ...
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... character of similar occurrences . The facts they display may be a trifle more glaring and piquant than the common run of such things ; but they are precisely the same in principle , and cannot be excepted against as unfair ...
... character of similar occurrences . The facts they display may be a trifle more glaring and piquant than the common run of such things ; but they are precisely the same in principle , and cannot be excepted against as unfair ...
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... character , who had ac- quired some influence over their sister , with entreaties to take away her life . They offered first a bushel of potatoes , and then the quarter of a pig . Finally , they raised their price to a round sum of ...
... character , who had ac- quired some influence over their sister , with entreaties to take away her life . They offered first a bushel of potatoes , and then the quarter of a pig . Finally , they raised their price to a round sum of ...
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... character , that this excuse , if easily admitted , would be pleaded with peril- ous frequency . She Sicard , who introduced himself a few months ago into the apartment of his wife , at the Hotel de Princes , by counterfeiting the voice ...
... character , that this excuse , if easily admitted , would be pleaded with peril- ous frequency . She Sicard , who introduced himself a few months ago into the apartment of his wife , at the Hotel de Princes , by counterfeiting the voice ...
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Page 453 - The scripture also affords us a divine pastoral drama in the song of Solomon, consisting of two persons, and a double chorus, as Origen rightly judges. And the Apocalypse of St John is the majestic image of a high and stately tragedy, shutting up and intermingling her solemn scenes and acts with a sevenfold chorus of hallelujahs and harping symphonies ; and this my opinion the grave authority of Pareus, commenting that book, is sufficient to confirm.
Page 447 - Mazzoni, and others, teaches what the laws are of a true epic poem, what of a dramatic, what of a lyric, what decorum is, which is the grand masterpiece to observe.
Page 552 - They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters ; These see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.
Page 288 - Died on his lips, and their motion revealed what his tongue would have spoken. Vainly he strove to rise ; and Evangeline, kneeling beside him, Kissed his dying lips, and laid his head on her bosom. Sweet was the light of his eyes ; but it suddenly sank into darkness, As when a lamp is blown out by a gust of wind at a casement.
Page 87 - I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair. They cannot like me — and in truth, I never knew one of that nation who attempted to do it. There is something more plain and ingenuous in their mode of proceeding. We know one another at first sight. There is an order of imperfect intellects (under which mine must be content to rank), which in its constitution is essentially anti-Caledonian.
Page 87 - There is an order of imperfect intellects (under which mine must be content to rank) which in its constitution is essentially anti-Caledonian. The owners of the sort of faculties I allude to have minds rather suggestive than comprehensive. They have no pretences to much clearness or precision in their ideas, or in their manner of expressing them.
Page 311 - Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.
Page 393 - But doubt not aught from mine array. Thou art my guest; I pledged my word As far as Coilantogle ford : Nor would I call a clansman's brand For aid against one valiant hand, Though on our strife lay every vale Rent by the Saxon from the Gael. So move we on; I only meant To show the reed on which you leant, Deeming this path you might pursue Without a pass from Roderick Dhu.
Page 533 - Lastly, whatsoever in religion is holy and sublime, in virtue amiable or grave, whatsoever hath passion or admiration in all the changes of that, which is called fortune from without, or the wily subtleties and refluxes of man's thoughts from within ; all these things, with a solid and treatable smoothness to paint out and describe...
Page 364 - But in this genial interval, nature is in all her freshness and fragrance ; " the rains are over and gone, the flowers appear upon the earth, the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in the land.