The Retrospective Review, Volumen1Charles and Henry Baldwyn, 1820 |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 62
Página ii
... fall into ashes in our hands , as the tempting fruit does , which is said to float on the sur- face of the Dead Sea ; while from others , ponderous and unwieldy , the essential ingredients shall be disen- gaged from the superfluous ...
... fall into ashes in our hands , as the tempting fruit does , which is said to float on the sur- face of the Dead Sea ; while from others , ponderous and unwieldy , the essential ingredients shall be disen- gaged from the superfluous ...
Página ix
... falls to the lot of a single individual . His sketch of Arabian literature * We must not , however , omit to mention , that this department is eminently indebted to the elegant productions of Dr. Drake , his Essays on Periodical ...
... falls to the lot of a single individual . His sketch of Arabian literature * We must not , however , omit to mention , that this department is eminently indebted to the elegant productions of Dr. Drake , his Essays on Periodical ...
Página 11
... fall on the wretched " softly and lightly , as a passing cloud . " It is felt as the blessed means of re - uniting faithful and ill - fated lovers - it is the pillow on which the long struggling patriot rests in undying glory . Often it ...
... fall on the wretched " softly and lightly , as a passing cloud . " It is felt as the blessed means of re - uniting faithful and ill - fated lovers - it is the pillow on which the long struggling patriot rests in undying glory . Often it ...
Página 14
... falls ; for we feel that he is unfit for the bustle of this world , and his own gentle contemplations on death have deprived it of its terrors . In Shakespear , the passionate is always steeped in the beautiful . Sometimes he diverts ...
... falls ; for we feel that he is unfit for the bustle of this world , and his own gentle contemplations on death have deprived it of its terrors . In Shakespear , the passionate is always steeped in the beautiful . Sometimes he diverts ...
Página 25
... fall From the wings of vanity , forsaking all The various business of the world , to see What wondrous change dwells in eternity . " This only child was the darling and solace of the royal widower , amidst " woes that would have shaken ...
... fall From the wings of vanity , forsaking all The various business of the world , to see What wondrous change dwells in eternity . " This only child was the darling and solace of the royal widower , amidst " woes that would have shaken ...
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
Absalon admiration Almanzor appear Argalia Ariamnes beauty behold breath Cardan Catiline Chap character Christian Cleom Cleomenes command Coriolanus criticism death delight divine Dryden earth Epirot eternal extract eyes fair fancy father favour fear feel felicitie genius gentle give glory God's-Grace grace hand happiness hath head heart heaven holy human humour Iago imagination Jews Juventus king lady live look Lord mind moral mysteries mysticism nature neque never night nihil noble Oroandes Othello passages passion Petrarch Pharonnida play pleasure poem poet poetical poetry prince qu'il quæ quam Queen quod racters reader reign sacred says scene seems Shakespear shew Sir Thomas Browne solemn sorrow soul spirit sublime sweet tears tender thee things thou thought tion tium tragedy truth unto verse vertue virtue William Chamberlayne winds writers wyll Zephyrus
Pasajes populares
Página 74 - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Página 90 - ... it cannot be long before we lie down in darkness and have our light in ashes...
Página 312 - tis the soul of peace ; Of all the virtues 'tis nearest kin to heaven ; It makes men look like gods. The best of men That e'er wore earth about him was a sufferer, A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit, The first true gentleman that ever breath'd.
Página 90 - The number of the dead long exceedeth all that shall live. The night of time far surpasseth the day, and who knows when was the equinox?
Página 136 - I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
Página 93 - Darkness and light divide the course of time, and oblivion shares with memory a great part even of our living beings; we slightly remember our felicities, and the smartest strokes of affliction leave but short smart upon us. Sense endureth no extremities, and sorrows destroy us or themselves.
Página 93 - To be ignorant of evils to come, and forgetful of evils past, is a merciful provision in nature, whereby we digest the mixture of our few and evil days ; and our delivered senses not relapsing into cutting remembrances, our sorrows are not kept raw by the edge of repetitions.
Página 18 - That day she was dressed in white silk, bordered with pearls of the size of beans, and over it a mantle of black silk, shot with silver threads ; her train was very long, the end of it borne by a marchioness ; instead of a chain she had an oblong collar of gold and jewels.
Página 90 - Oblivion is not to be hired. The greater part must be content to be as though they had not been, to be found in the register of God, not in the record of man.
Página 91 - And therefore restless inquietude for the diuturnity of our memories unto present considerations, seems a vanity almost out of date, and superannuated piece of folly. We cannot hope to live so long in our names as some have done in their persons ; one face of Janus holds no proportion unto the other. It is too late to be ambitious.