University Magazine: A Literary and Philosophic Review, Volume 38W. Curry, jun., and Company, 1851 |
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... turn to " Camden's Britannia , " an edition of which lay on the office . shelves , to " Holinshed's Chronicles , " to " Speght's Chaucer , " to " Geoffrey of Monmouth , " or to any other book that he could borrow from a library , and ...
... turn to " Camden's Britannia , " an edition of which lay on the office . shelves , to " Holinshed's Chronicles , " to " Speght's Chaucer , " to " Geoffrey of Monmouth , " or to any other book that he could borrow from a library , and ...
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... turn- ing with the rattling hail . So much for heroics ; to speak plain English , I am , and ever will be , your unalterable friend . I did not give your love to Miss Rumsey , having not seen her in private ; and in public she will not ...
... turn- ing with the rattling hail . So much for heroics ; to speak plain English , I am , and ever will be , your unalterable friend . I did not give your love to Miss Rumsey , having not seen her in private ; and in public she will not ...
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... turn now : here I am , wretched in this beastly Bristol , where Savage was allowed to starve in prison ; and by the very fact that I live , I have a right to my solicitude ! " Obstinate boy ! is there then aught that can still with some ...
... turn now : here I am , wretched in this beastly Bristol , where Savage was allowed to starve in prison ; and by the very fact that I live , I have a right to my solicitude ! " Obstinate boy ! is there then aught that can still with some ...
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... turn what was best and most original in his genius , i . e . , the enthusiasm for the antique , into the service of his worst propensities ; in other words , he re- solved to adopt , with certain variations and adaptations to his own ...
... turn what was best and most original in his genius , i . e . , the enthusiasm for the antique , into the service of his worst propensities ; in other words , he re- solved to adopt , with certain variations and adaptations to his own ...
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... turn from the " drama " and see what is next : " Songs " by - Brown , Jones , and Robinson ; ah ! ' tis all one Whether written by Burns , Beranger , or - Bunn ! — song is a song , though there's no music in it , As a bird is a bird ...
... turn from the " drama " and see what is next : " Songs " by - Brown , Jones , and Robinson ; ah ! ' tis all one Whether written by Burns , Beranger , or - Bunn ! — song is a song , though there's no music in it , As a bird is a bird ...
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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.
Page 23 - PANSIES, lilies, kingcups, daisies, Let them live upon their praises ; Long as there's a sun that sets, Primroses will have their glory ; Long as there are violets, They will have a place in story : There's a flower that shall be mine, 'Tis the little Celandine.
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.