University Magazine: A Literary and Philosophic Review, Volume 38W. Curry, jun., and Company, 1851 |
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... expression and gleams of genius , show- ing that even as a modern poet he would certainly in time have taken a high rank ; but to do justice to his as- tonishing abilities we must read his antique compositions . In the element of the ...
... expression and gleams of genius , show- ing that even as a modern poet he would certainly in time have taken a high rank ; but to do justice to his as- tonishing abilities we must read his antique compositions . In the element of the ...
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... expression , though he liked to put it on , was also a thing that he could at pleasure throw off . Though an antiquarian , and a midnight reader of Speght's Chaucer and other black- letter volumes , he was also an attorney's apprentice ...
... expression , though he liked to put it on , was also a thing that he could at pleasure throw off . Though an antiquarian , and a midnight reader of Speght's Chaucer and other black- letter volumes , he was also an attorney's apprentice ...
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... expression- " No ! by the Powers ! the gem is ours , And ours it still shall be . " But whatever doubt there may be as to the directness of the language used , there can be none about the action that followed . Had James II.'s gunner ...
... expression- " No ! by the Powers ! the gem is ours , And ours it still shall be . " But whatever doubt there may be as to the directness of the language used , there can be none about the action that followed . Had James II.'s gunner ...
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... expression of the countenance . I speak of course with reference to pantomimes of the present day , in which the opening is aggravated into a gorgeous melo - dra- matic spectacle , while the comic part or actual pantomime is curtailed ...
... expression of the countenance . I speak of course with reference to pantomimes of the present day , in which the opening is aggravated into a gorgeous melo - dra- matic spectacle , while the comic part or actual pantomime is curtailed ...
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... expression of her full black eyes was often sad and thoughtful , and yet at times they lighted up with a brilliancy quite charming ; small Grecian features , al- most perfectly chiselled , and an air of quiet reserve , rendered her ...
... expression of her full black eyes was often sad and thoughtful , and yet at times they lighted up with a brilliancy quite charming ; small Grecian features , al- most perfectly chiselled , and an air of quiet reserve , rendered her ...
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Page 176 - What good man would prefer a country covered with forests and ranged by a, few thousand savages to our extensive Republic, studded with cities, towns, and prosperous farms, embellished with all the improvements which art can devise or industry execute, occupied by more than 12,000,000 happy people, and filled with all the blessings of liberty, civilization, and religion?
Page 10 - I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.
Page 271 - I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance.
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Page 406 - The thing that hath been is that which shall be ; and that which is done is that which shall be done ; and there is no new thing under the sun.
Page 590 - Behold, thou hast made my days as it were a span long : and mine age is even as nothing in respect of thee ; and verily every man living is altogether vanity.
Page 36 - In a drear-nighted December Too happy, happy Tree Thy branches ne'er remember Their green felicity: The north cannot undo them With a sleety whistle through, them, Nor frozen thawings glue them From budding at the prime. In a drear-nighted December...
Page 243 - Whose midnight revels, by a forest side, Or fountain, some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course ; they, on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund music charm his ear ; At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds.
Page 91 - The sandy fields, leaping through flowery groves Of yellow ragwort ; or when rock and hill, The woods, and distant Skiddaw's lofty height, Were bronzed with deepest radiance, stood alone Beneath the sky, as if I had been born On Indian plains, and from my mother's hut Had run abroad in wantonness, to sport, A naked savage, in the thunder shower.
Page 271 - I shall say the less of Mr. Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine, which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them.