The Port FolioEditor and Asbury Dickens, 1813 |
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... common with this lower world . His sys- tem of versification is more unprecedented than his fable . Aban- doning the rhymed couplets of Pope , and the blank heroics of Milton , his lines have every variety of length , and his cadences ...
... common with this lower world . His sys- tem of versification is more unprecedented than his fable . Aban- doning the rhymed couplets of Pope , and the blank heroics of Milton , his lines have every variety of length , and his cadences ...
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... common , that the feeling is superficial , that the taste is often rude , that the diction is often showy -- and that it is nothing but a singularity of talent , nothing but the magic of genius , which could breathe a life into this ...
... common , that the feeling is superficial , that the taste is often rude , that the diction is often showy -- and that it is nothing but a singularity of talent , nothing but the magic of genius , which could breathe a life into this ...
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... common poet , fatigue his reader with the detail of those events which the imagination , of itself , can body forth ; neither does he minutely display all the possi- ble varieties of feeling which the situation of his characters would ...
... common poet , fatigue his reader with the detail of those events which the imagination , of itself , can body forth ; neither does he minutely display all the possi- ble varieties of feeling which the situation of his characters would ...
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... common protectress Madame de Warrens , yet the circumstance is improbable , and therefore improper to be introduced into his novel . Justly says Boileau , Jamais au spectateur n'offrez rein d'increyable ; Le vrai peut quelque fois n ...
... common protectress Madame de Warrens , yet the circumstance is improbable , and therefore improper to be introduced into his novel . Justly says Boileau , Jamais au spectateur n'offrez rein d'increyable ; Le vrai peut quelque fois n ...
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... common disturber of the peace . Upon the trial it appeared , that Gun was a flashy fellow , all fire and tow , and when a little primed , was sometimes very noisy . That one day at Smith's ( the prosecutor's ) refusing to pay his shot ...
... common disturber of the peace . Upon the trial it appeared , that Gun was a flashy fellow , all fire and tow , and when a little primed , was sometimes very noisy . That one day at Smith's ( the prosecutor's ) refusing to pay his shot ...
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Página 179 - And it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.
Página 174 - There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day: and there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores, and desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.
Página 164 - I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame.
Página 174 - For behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.
Página 647 - He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress...
Página 33 - The tear down childhood's cheek that flows, Is like the dewdrop on the rose ; When next the summer breeze comes by, And waves the bush, the flower is dry.
Página 163 - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page, in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.
Página 516 - Tis she ; — but why that bleeding bosom gor'd, Why dimly gleams the visionary sword ! Oh, ever beauteous, ever friendly ! tell, Is it, in heaven, a crime to love too well ? To bear too tender or too firm a heart, To act a lover's or a Roman's part ? Is there no bright reversion in the sky, For those who greatly think, or bravely die...
Página 60 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!
Página 383 - ... for these reasons it has been my ardent wish to see a plan devised, on a liberal scale, which would have a tendency to spread systematic ideas through all parts of this rising empire, thereby to do away local attachments and State prejudices, as far as the nature of things would, or indeed ought to admit, from our national councils.