University Magazine: A Literary and Philosophic Review, Volume 38W. Curry, jun., and Company, 1851 |
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... fact , only passed out of the family on the death of an older brother of his father , named John Chatterton . The date does not seem quite cer- tain , but it was probably nearly three years after this occurrence , and when Chatterton ...
... fact , only passed out of the family on the death of an older brother of his father , named John Chatterton . The date does not seem quite cer- tain , but it was probably nearly three years after this occurrence , and when Chatterton ...
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... fact , were the surgeon's obligations to the young man , that he seems to have thought it impossible to requite them otherwise than by a pecuniary recom- pense . Accordingly , there is evidence of an occasional guinea or half - guinea ...
... fact , were the surgeon's obligations to the young man , that he seems to have thought it impossible to requite them otherwise than by a pecuniary recom- pense . Accordingly , there is evidence of an occasional guinea or half - guinea ...
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... fact that I live , I have a right to my solicitude ! " Obstinate boy ! is there then aught that can still with some show of sense , be advised you ? Yes , there is ! Seek a friend . Leave the Catcotts , lay and clerical , the Burgums ...
... fact that I live , I have a right to my solicitude ! " Obstinate boy ! is there then aught that can still with some show of sense , be advised you ? Yes , there is ! Seek a friend . Leave the Catcotts , lay and clerical , the Burgums ...
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... fact , reader , we have laughed more over this little volume of downright serious versification , than over the most brilliant sallies of the greatest wits . Had Philip the Second beheld us , as we burst into thunderous ca- chinnations ...
... fact , reader , we have laughed more over this little volume of downright serious versification , than over the most brilliant sallies of the greatest wits . Had Philip the Second beheld us , as we burst into thunderous ca- chinnations ...
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... fact of discovering a place within a looking three days ; not even the ex- mile of shore , for which they were clamation of that brave mariner , " Who stoutly averr'd The Rock it was surely haunted— ” but come at once to the grand at ...
... fact of discovering a place within a looking three days ; not even the ex- mile of shore , for which they were clamation of that brave mariner , " Who stoutly averr'd The Rock it was surely haunted— ” but come at once to the grand at ...
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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 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.