Mornings in Spring: Or, Retrospections, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Volumen2J. Murray, 1828 |
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... present day , be altogether superfluous to enter into any formal discussion ; and for the purpose which I have in view , that of a brief comparison of his character and powers as a writer , with those which have been ascribed to Chaucer ...
... present day , be altogether superfluous to enter into any formal discussion ; and for the purpose which I have in view , that of a brief comparison of his character and powers as a writer , with those which have been ascribed to Chaucer ...
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... presents so masterly a display of contrasted talent ; a transition so complete from scenery that would do honour to the pencil of Ho- garth , to that which breathes the most awful and heart - harrowing terror . Having drawn this ...
... presents so masterly a display of contrasted talent ; a transition so complete from scenery that would do honour to the pencil of Ho- garth , to that which breathes the most awful and heart - harrowing terror . Having drawn this ...
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... aggravation , the irreparable loss which he has sustained . He cannot avoid contrasting his present forlorn and impotent state with the highly- honoured pre - eminence from which he has fallen ;. 52 MORNINGS IN SPRING .
... aggravation , the irreparable loss which he has sustained . He cannot avoid contrasting his present forlorn and impotent state with the highly- honoured pre - eminence from which he has fallen ;. 52 MORNINGS IN SPRING .
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... present us with a very favourable idea of his progress in Chris- tian charity . In fact , he tells the aged poet in plain terms , that he is a bald and senseless fool , and that as long as God shall rule in heaven , his race shall ...
... present us with a very favourable idea of his progress in Chris- tian charity . In fact , he tells the aged poet in plain terms , that he is a bald and senseless fool , and that as long as God shall rule in heaven , his race shall ...
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... by their an- cestors of the middle ages , and in a passage of ex- quisite beauty and feeling , which in the present day cannot be read without a sigh of deep regret for what has passed since it was written , " as 62 MORNINGS IN SPRING .
... by their an- cestors of the middle ages , and in a passage of ex- quisite beauty and feeling , which in the present day cannot be read without a sigh of deep regret for what has passed since it was written , " as 62 MORNINGS IN SPRING .
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Página 84 - And through the chink in the fractured floor Look down, and see a griesly sight ; A vault where the bodies are buried upright ! There, face by face, and hand by hand, The Claphams and Mauleverers stand...
Página 299 - And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places : thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations ; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
Página 316 - Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope, but still bear up and steer Right onward.
Página 302 - I have been bullied by an usurper ; I have been neglected by a court ; but I will not be dictated to by a subject : your man shan't stand. " ANNE Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery.
Página 311 - There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought.
Página 317 - A cloudy spot. Down thither prone in flight He speeds, and through the vast ethereal sky Sails between worlds and worlds, with steady wing, Now on the polar...
Página 78 - The History and Antiquities of the Deanery of Craven, ' stands upon a beautiful curvature of the Wharf, on a level sufficiently elevated to protect it from inundations, and low enough for every purpose of picturesque effect.
Página 30 - It is the practice of the young men of Dumfries to meet in the streets during the hours of remission from labour, and by these means I had an opportunity of witnessing the general solicitude of all ranks and of all ages. His differences with them on...
Página 290 - This pillar was erected in the year 1656, by Ann Counteas Dowager of Pembroke, &c. for a memorial of her last parting, in this place, with her good and pious mother...
Página 25 - My son! my son! may kinder stars Upon thy fortune shine; And may those pleasures gild thy reign, That ne'er wad blink on mine! God keep thee frae thy mother's faes, Or turn their hearts to thee: And where thou meet'st thy mother's friend, Remember him for me!