The Literary world, conducted by J. Timbs, Volumen1John Timbs 1839 |
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... death of Sir Walter Scott , in the autumn of 1832 , it was said , in eloquent lamentation : " the gap which he leaves in the world is the token of the space he filled in the homage of his times . " This remark truly bespoke the grief of ...
... death of Sir Walter Scott , in the autumn of 1832 , it was said , in eloquent lamentation : " the gap which he leaves in the world is the token of the space he filled in the homage of his times . " This remark truly bespoke the grief of ...
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... death's cold grasp untimely riven , Beheld , and lo ! while yet it smiled And scarce had wing'd its flight to heaven , Parental tenderness opposing , Struck with th ' image of the dead , - Commands the cherub form reposing , To be ...
... death's cold grasp untimely riven , Beheld , and lo ! while yet it smiled And scarce had wing'd its flight to heaven , Parental tenderness opposing , Struck with th ' image of the dead , - Commands the cherub form reposing , To be ...
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... death his son did the same , and obtained a toll , stated by Morant to have been " for every cart car- rying corn , wood , coal , & c . , one penny ; of one carrying tasel , two - pence ; and of one carrying a dead Jew , eight - pence ...
... death his son did the same , and obtained a toll , stated by Morant to have been " for every cart car- rying corn , wood , coal , & c . , one penny ; of one carrying tasel , two - pence ; and of one carrying a dead Jew , eight - pence ...
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... death . He was also a Fellow of the Royal Societies of Edinburgh and Dublin ; of the Astronomical Society of London ; of the American Philosophical Society held at Philadelphia ; of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences ; of the ...
... death . He was also a Fellow of the Royal Societies of Edinburgh and Dublin ; of the Astronomical Society of London ; of the American Philosophical Society held at Philadelphia ; of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences ; of the ...
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... death her spirits were too much broken down for her to care what she was . Whether they had been in love with each other when they married I don't know , but I am sure there never was a more happy union than theirs during the thirty ...
... death her spirits were too much broken down for her to care what she was . Whether they had been in love with each other when they married I don't know , but I am sure there never was a more happy union than theirs during the thirty ...
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Página 233 - And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I have gotten me honour upon Pharaoh, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen.
Página 263 - A double dungeon wall and wave Have made — and like a living grave. Below the surface of the lake The dark vault lies wherein we lay...
Página 308 - Ye stars are but the shining dust Of my divine abode, The pavement of those heavenly courts, Where I shall reign with God.
Página 263 - Lake Leman lies by Chillon's walls: A thousand feet in depth below Its massy waters meet and flow; Thus much the fathom-line was sent no From Chillon's snow-white battlement, Which round about the wave enthralls: A double dungeon wall and wave Have made — and like a living grave.
Página 317 - ... the true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.
Página 333 - We see him, so far as we do see him, not in himself, but in a reflex image from the objectivity in which he was manifested : he is Falstaff and Mercutio and Malvolio and Jaques and Portia and Imogen and Lear and Othello ; but to us he is scarcely a determined person, a substantial reality of past time, the man Shakspeare. The two greatest names in poetry are to us little more than names. If we are not yet come to question his unity, as we do that of " the blind old man of Scio's rocky isle...
Página 216 - I no sooner (saith he) come into the library, but I bolt the door to me, excluding lust, ambition, avarice, and all such vices, whose nurse is Idleness, the mother of Ignorance, and Melancholy herself, and in the very lap of eternity, amongst so many divine souls, I take my seat with so lofty a spirit and sweet content, that I pity all our great ones, and rich men that know not this happiness.
Página 43 - The true test of a great man — that, at least, which must secure his place among the highest order of great men — is his having been. in advance of his age.
Página 352 - Review; this was acceded to •with acclamation. I was appointed Editor, and remained long enough in Edinburgh to edit the first number of the Edinburgh Review.
Página 392 - And bread itself is gather'd as a fruit ; ' Where none contest the fields, the woods, the streams : — The goldless age, where gold disturbs no dreams, Inhabits or inhabited the shore, Till Europe taught them better than before : Bestow'd her customs, and amended theirs, But left her vices also to their heirs.