The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal, Volume 40Henry Colburn and Company, 1834 - English literature |
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... things- The richly graced , the exquisite , are things To fear , to love with trembling ! —beautiful Is the pure flame when on thy hearth it shines , When in the friendly torch it gives thee light , How gracious and how calm ! -but ...
... things- The richly graced , the exquisite , are things To fear , to love with trembling ! —beautiful Is the pure flame when on thy hearth it shines , When in the friendly torch it gives thee light , How gracious and how calm ! -but ...
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... thing alone remains - one mournful boon- Nature on us , her suffering children , showers The gift of tears - the ... things divine , And pour'd my spirit over Palestine , In honour of the sacred war for Him , The God who was on earth and ...
... thing alone remains - one mournful boon- Nature on us , her suffering children , showers The gift of tears - the ... things divine , And pour'd my spirit over Palestine , In honour of the sacred war for Him , The God who was on earth and ...
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... thing , ye'd throw me into the first well or ditch , instid of taking me round the country for a show . " Returning one evening from a pilgrimage to the holy well of Tub- berara , ( the exact locality is of small matter to the English ...
... thing , ye'd throw me into the first well or ditch , instid of taking me round the country for a show . " Returning one evening from a pilgrimage to the holy well of Tub- berara , ( the exact locality is of small matter to the English ...
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... thing there was at random : but a shake of the mental kaleidoscope brought a new formation to life , and " pitch and rosin " were the two words that suggested themselves . These he continued to repeat as industriously as he had done the ...
... thing there was at random : but a shake of the mental kaleidoscope brought a new formation to life , and " pitch and rosin " were the two words that suggested themselves . These he continued to repeat as industriously as he had done the ...
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... thing that struck my attention in our place of refuge and future residence , was the amazing disproportion of the evident fools to the questionable quantity of rational beings , composing the population . The symptoms of the first were ...
... thing that struck my attention in our place of refuge and future residence , was the amazing disproportion of the evident fools to the questionable quantity of rational beings , composing the population . The symptoms of the first were ...
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Page 142 - Grace was in all her steps, Heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love.
Page 43 - Truth indeed came once into the world with her divine Master, and was a perfect shape most glorious to look on; but when he ascended, and his apostles after him were laid asleep, then straight arose a wicked race of deceivers, who, as that story goes of the Egyptian Typhon with his conspirators how they dealt with the good Osiris, took the virgin Truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds.
Page 9 - Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide ; Else, why should he, with wealth and honour blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest?
Page 193 - London Prentice. I have often wished that our tragedians would copy after this great master in action. Could they make the same use of their arms and legs, and inform their faces with as significant looks and passions, how glorious would an English tragedy appear with that action which is capable of giving a dignity to the forced thoughts, cold conceits, and unnatural expressions of an Italian opera...
Page 43 - ... and Commons, nor ever shall do, till her Master's second coming ; He shall bring together every joint and member, and shall mould them into an immortal feature of loveliness and perfection. Suffer not these licensing prohibitions to stand at every place of opportunity, forbidding and disturbing them that continue seeking, that continue to do our obsequies to the torn body of our martyred saint.
Page 46 - ... where they undoubtedly, that by their labours, counsels, and prayers, have been earnest for the common good of religion and their country, shall receive above the inferior orders of the blessed, the regal addition of principalities, legions, and thrones into their glorious titles, and in supereminence of beatific vision, progressing the dateless and irrevoluble circle of eternity, shall clasp inseparable hands with joy and blifls. in overmeasure for ever.
Page 8 - All this hath somewhat worn me, and may wear, But must be borne. I stoop not to despair; For I have battled with mine agony, And made me wings wherewith to overfly The narrow circus of my dungeon wall...
Page 227 - I do love these ancient ruins. We never tread upon them but we set Our foot upon some reverend history : And, questionless, here in this open court, Which now lies naked to the injuries Of stormy weather, some men lie...
Page 43 - The light which we have gained, was given us, not to be ever staring on, but by it to discover onward things more remote from our knowledge.
Page 46 - ... vices, may press on hard to that high and happy emulation, to be found the soberest, wisest, and most Christian people at that day, when thou, the eternal and shortly-expected king, shalt open the clouds to judge the several kingdoms of the world, and distributing national honours and rewards to religious and just common-wealths, shalt put an end to all earthly tyrannies, proclaiming thy universal and mild monarchy through heaven and earth.