The Monthly Review, Or, Literary JournalR. Griffiths, 1817 |
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... writer says , every one of them now knows more than all of us they have left behind . It is to me a comfortable reflection , that , since we must live for ever in a future state , there is a sufficient stock of amusement in reserve for ...
... writer says , every one of them now knows more than all of us they have left behind . It is to me a comfortable reflection , that , since we must live for ever in a future state , there is a sufficient stock of amusement in reserve for ...
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... writer ; or of one who will pass slightly over trifling or often - repeated incidents , and seek objects of interest or variety either in his own reflections or in the character of his companions and the inhabitants of the country ...
... writer ; or of one who will pass slightly over trifling or often - repeated incidents , and seek objects of interest or variety either in his own reflections or in the character of his companions and the inhabitants of the country ...
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... writer who gravely . supposes ( Vol . i . p . 298. ) that the fountains of Cythera , in the island of Cyprus , may derive their supplies from those of Caramania on the main - land , and that the fresh water may pass under the bed of the ...
... writer who gravely . supposes ( Vol . i . p . 298. ) that the fountains of Cythera , in the island of Cyprus , may derive their supplies from those of Caramania on the main - land , and that the fresh water may pass under the bed of the ...
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... writers have been more unlucky in a translator . The English publishers , having chosen to drop the fiction of Ali Bey's Turkish extraction , should have given directions to make various other alterations " of a similar nature ...
... writers have been more unlucky in a translator . The English publishers , having chosen to drop the fiction of Ali Bey's Turkish extraction , should have given directions to make various other alterations " of a similar nature ...
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... writers to the object of his work . We shall notice only one circumstance , that it seems to have been the small - pox with which Charles VIII . was attacked , on his expedition for the conquest of Naples at the end of the fifteenth ...
... writers to the object of his work . We shall notice only one circumstance , that it seems to have been the small - pox with which Charles VIII . was attacked , on his expedition for the conquest of Naples at the end of the fifteenth ...
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Página 128 - The turtle to her mate hath told her tale. Summer is come, for every spray now springs: The hart hath hung his old head on the pale; The buck in brake his winter coat he flings ; The fishes flete with new repaired scale.
Página 304 - The stars are forth, the moon above the tops Of the snow-shining mountains. — Beautiful ! I linger yet with nature, for the night Hath been to me a more familiar face Than that of man ; and in her starry shade Of dim and solitary loveliness, I learned the language of another world.
Página 302 - When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing ; all my mind was set Serious to learn and know, and thence to do What might be public good; myself I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things...
Página 301 - Half dust, half deity, alike unfit To sink or soar, with our mixed essence, make A conflict of its elements, and breathe The breath of degradation and of pride, Contending with low wants and lofty will, Till our mortality predominates, And men are — what they name not to themselves, And trust not to each other.
Página 300 - Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains ; «° They crowned him long ago On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow.
Página 20 - To get over this, my way is, to divide half a sheet of paper by a line into two columns; writing over the one pro, and over the other con; then during three or four days' consideration, I put down under the different heads short hints of the different motives, that at different times occur to me, for or against the measure. When I have thus got them all together in one view, I...
Página 284 - Nymph of a fair, but erring line ! " Gently he said — "One hope is thine. Tis written in the Book of Fate, The Peri yet may be forgiven Who brings to this Eternal Gate The Gift that is most dear to Heaven ! Go, seek it, and redeem thy sin — Tis sweet to let the Pardon'd in ! " Rapidly as comets run To th...
Página 286 - Cheer'd by this hope, she bends her thither ; — Still laughs the radiant eye of heaven, Nor have the golden bowers of even In the rich west begun to wither ; — When, o'er the vale of Balbec winging Slowly, she sees a child at play, Among the rosy wild-flowers singing, As rosy and as wild as they ; Chasing, with eager hands and eyes, The beautiful blue damsel-flies, That flutter'd round the jasmine stems, Like winged flowers or flying gems...
Página 287 - And how felt he, the wretched Man reclining there — while memory ran o'er many a year of guilt and strife, flew o'er the dark flood of his life, nor found one sunny resting-place, nor brought him back one branch of grace !
Página 304 - Midst the chief relics of almighty Rome ; The trees which grew along the broken arches Waved dark in the blue midnight, and the stars Shone through the rents of ruin ; from afar The watchdog bay'd beyond the Tiber ; and More near from out the Caesars...