The North British Review, Volúmenes42-43Leonard Scott & Company, 1865 |
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... a pleasant task to endeavour to throw a little sunshine on a reputation which has been overshadowed by another . Of all those 1 ART . II . - Epigrams , Ancient and 20 March , The Rise and Progress of the Scottish Tourist .
... a pleasant task to endeavour to throw a little sunshine on a reputation which has been overshadowed by another . Of all those 1 ART . II . - Epigrams , Ancient and 20 March , The Rise and Progress of the Scottish Tourist .
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... epigram furnishes a part of the explanation which the epigram itself should give . Kleist's title is thus given in German : - " An zwei sehr schöne , aber einäugige Geschwister . " Mr. Booth , or the authority from whom he bor- rows ...
... epigram furnishes a part of the explanation which the epigram itself should give . Kleist's title is thus given in German : - " An zwei sehr schöne , aber einäugige Geschwister . " Mr. Booth , or the authority from whom he bor- rows ...
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... Epigram , its more ancient name- to mouth , and fasten readily in every sake appears at first sight tame and insipid ; memory . but a better acquaintance with the beautiful epigrams of the Anthology reveals by de- grees their true merit ...
... Epigram , its more ancient name- to mouth , and fasten readily in every sake appears at first sight tame and insipid ; memory . but a better acquaintance with the beautiful epigrams of the Anthology reveals by de- grees their true merit ...
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... epigrams have merit ; but they also , for the most part , are harsh and obsolete . By far our best writer of epigrams is Prior , though his epigrams are comparatively few in num- ber , and some of them are of inferior merit . The great ...
... epigrams have merit ; but they also , for the most part , are harsh and obsolete . By far our best writer of epigrams is Prior , though his epigrams are comparatively few in num- ber , and some of them are of inferior merit . The great ...
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... epigram seems to have been a great favourite with our forefathers . It is the last quoted in his preliminary essay by the worthy editor of the Festoon , Mr. Richard Graves , the author of the Spiritual Quixote . sion to personal ...
... epigram seems to have been a great favourite with our forefathers . It is the last quoted in his preliminary essay by the worthy editor of the Festoon , Mr. Richard Graves , the author of the Spiritual Quixote . sion to personal ...
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Página 151 - For not to think of what I needs must feel, But to be still and patient, all I can; And haply by abstruse research to steal From my own nature all the natural man This was my sole resource, my only plan: Till that which suits a part infects the whole, And now is almost grown the habit of my soul.
Página 152 - Our observation employed either about external sensible objects, or about the internal operations of our minds, perceived and reflected on by ourselves, is that which supplies our understandings with all the materials of thinking. These two are the fountains of knowledge from whence all the ideas we have or can naturally have do spring.
Página 148 - I felt thee ! — on that sea-cliff's verge, Whose pines, scarce travelled by the breeze above, Had made one murmur with the distant surge ! Yes, while I stood and gazed, my temples bare, And shot my being through earth, sea and air, Possessing all things with intensest love, O Liberty ! my spirit felt thee there.
Página 22 - I'll tell you, friend! a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow, The rest is all but leather or prunella.
Página 230 - And when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I.
Página 149 - Or throne of corses which his sword hath slain ? Greatness and goodness are not means but ends ! Hath he not always treasures, always friends, The good great man? Three treasures, love and light, And calm thoughts regular as infant's breath : And three firm friends, more sure than day and night, Himself, his Maker, and the angel Death.
Página 51 - Fontenoy, the blood of the mountaineers who were slaughtered at Culloden. The evils produced by his wickedness were felt in lands where the name of Prussia was unknown ; and, in order that he might rob a neighbor whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandel, and red men scalped each other by the great lakes of North America.
Página 24 - We have but faith: we cannot know, For knowledge is of things we see; And yet we trust it comes from thee, A beam in darkness: let it grow.
Página 219 - Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey ; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness...
Página 97 - It was foretold, that to him should the gathering of the people be ; and that God would give him the Heathen for his inheritance, and the utmost parts of the earth for his possession, which was punctually fulfilled by the wonderful success of the gospel, and its universal propagation throughout the world.