Select Reviews of Literature, Volumen7John F. Watson, 1812 |
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... possessed of an extensive knowledge of poetry , and great sensibility to its beauties . We do not know whether all this can be made out to the full extent that is here stated ; but Mrs. Grant has certainly gone far to render a great ...
... possessed of an extensive knowledge of poetry , and great sensibility to its beauties . We do not know whether all this can be made out to the full extent that is here stated ; but Mrs. Grant has certainly gone far to render a great ...
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... possessed , but by a far greater degree of mutual dependence than can now be said to unite them . Before the introduction of luxury and manu- factures , a chieftain could neither employ nor display his wealth and influence in any other ...
... possessed , but by a far greater degree of mutual dependence than can now be said to unite them . Before the introduction of luxury and manu- factures , a chieftain could neither employ nor display his wealth and influence in any other ...
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... possessing , though no doubt in a higher degree , those very advantages which seem in earlier times to have be- longed to the whole community -- the self - estimation produced by the consciousness of being on a level with what is ...
... possessing , though no doubt in a higher degree , those very advantages which seem in earlier times to have be- longed to the whole community -- the self - estimation produced by the consciousness of being on a level with what is ...
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... possessed that of the most obscure individual , and probably produced the most powerful effects upon those who were reduced , by the homeliness of their external circumstances , to look oftenest back upon this soothing remembrancer of ...
... possessed that of the most obscure individual , and probably produced the most powerful effects upon those who were reduced , by the homeliness of their external circumstances , to look oftenest back upon this soothing remembrancer of ...
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... possessing these qualities , than in their possessing each two eyes and two hands : But if they have in their vicinity a race who are deficient in the accomplishments they value most highly , and who pretend to undervalue them for ...
... possessing these qualities , than in their possessing each two eyes and two hands : But if they have in their vicinity a race who are deficient in the accomplishments they value most highly , and who pretend to undervalue them for ...
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Página 222 - IX. 0 how canst thou renounce the boundless store Of charms which Nature to her votary yields! The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields; All that the genial ray of morning gilds, And all that echoes to the song of even, All that the mountain's sheltering bosom shields, And all the dread magnificence of heaven, O how canst thou renounce, and hope to be forgiven ! X.
Página 484 - Her lover sinks — she sheds no ill-timed tear ; Her chief is slain — she fills his fatal post ; Her fellows flee — she checks their base career ; The foe retires — she heads the sallying host : Who can appease like her a lover's ghost ? Who can avenge so well a leader's fall?
Página 497 - And he fixed his eye on the darker speck. He felt the cheering power of spring, It made him whistle, it made him sing, His heart was mirthful to excess, But the Rover's mirth was wickedness. His eye was on the...
Página 425 - WHAT hopes, what terrors, does thy gift create, Ambiguous emblem of uncertain fate : The Myrtle, ensign of supreme command, Consign'd by Venus to Melissa's hand; Not less capricious than a reigning fair, Now grants, and now rejects a lover's prayer. In myrtle shades oft sings the happy swain, In myrtle shades despairing ghosts complain: The myrtle crowns the happy lovers...
Página 485 - Cold is the heart, fair Greece ! that looks on thee, Nor feels as lovers o'er the dust they loved ; Dull is the eye that will not weep to see Thy walls defaced, thy mouldering shrines removed By British hands, which it had best behoved To guard those relics ne'er to be restored.
Página 486 - But midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, And roam along, the world's tired denizen, With none who bless us, none whom we can bless ; Minions of...
Página 498 - Now where we are I cannot tell, But I wish I could hear the Inchcape Bell. " They hear no sound ; the swell is strong ; Though the wind hath fallen, they drift along, Till the vessel strikes with a shivering shock: " O Christ! it is the Inchcape Rock!
Página 497 - No STIR in the air, no stir in the sea: The ship was still as she could be; Her sails from heaven received no motion; Her keel was steady in the ocean. Without either sign or sound of their shock, The waves flowed over the Inchcape Rock; So little they rose, so little they fell, They did not move the Inchcape Bell.
Página 461 - Rome than here, as I should not then have the mortification of seeing with my own eyes a genius of the first rank lost to the world, himself, and his friends, as I certainly must, if you do not assume a manner of acting and thinking here, totally different from what your letters from Rome have described to me.
Página 130 - Now smile, then weep ; now pale, then crimson red. You are the powerful moon of my blood's sea, To make it ebb or flow into my face, As your looks change.