The Retrospective Review, and Historical and Antiquarian Magazine, Volume 1Charles and Henry Baldwyn, 1820 |
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... interest to the English reader than any other , will have peculiar claims on our attention - and to it will the pages of the " Retrospec- tive " be zealously devoted ; -not , however , to that por- tion of it whose sole recommendation ...
... interest to the English reader than any other , will have peculiar claims on our attention - and to it will the pages of the " Retrospec- tive " be zealously devoted ; -not , however , to that por- tion of it whose sole recommendation ...
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... interest the reader in his own habits and feel- ings — and who , through the mist of black - letter , dates , title - pages , and colophons , clearly shines an amiable man and elegant writer . His " Censura Literaria , " which at first ...
... interest the reader in his own habits and feel- ings — and who , through the mist of black - letter , dates , title - pages , and colophons , clearly shines an amiable man and elegant writer . His " Censura Literaria , " which at first ...
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... interest by the wild- ness of their plots , and the strangeness of the incidents with which their scenes were crowded . Their bloody tragedies are , however , often relieved by passages of exquisite sweetness . Their terrors , not ...
... interest by the wild- ness of their plots , and the strangeness of the incidents with which their scenes were crowded . Their bloody tragedies are , however , often relieved by passages of exquisite sweetness . Their terrors , not ...
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... interest of per- sonal narrative . Paul himself seldom appears ; but what ap- peared to him , was instantly put down as it occurred , with the scrupulous fidelity of a tradesman taking stock . All is fresh to him , and the result is ...
... interest of per- sonal narrative . Paul himself seldom appears ; but what ap- peared to him , was instantly put down as it occurred , with the scrupulous fidelity of a tradesman taking stock . All is fresh to him , and the result is ...
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... interest , and developed with great , but unequal , power ; and every incident which might , by possibility , be considered as improbable , is accounted for from plausible causes , with a scrupulousness and care which is very remarkable ...
... interest , and developed with great , but unequal , power ; and every incident which might , by possibility , be considered as improbable , is accounted for from plausible causes , with a scrupulousness and care which is very remarkable ...
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Page 73 - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Page 90 - Oblivion is not to be hired. The greater part must be content to be as though they had not been, to be found in the register of God, not in the record of man.
Page 92 - Darkness and light divide the course of time, and oblivion shares with memory a great part even of our living beings ; we slightly remember our felicities, and the smartest strokes of affliction leave but short smart upon us. Sense endureth no extremities, and sorrows destroy us or themselves.
Page 90 - And therefore restless inquietude for the diuturnity of our memories unto present considerations, seems a vanity almost out of date, and superannuated piece of folly. We cannot hope to live so long in our names as some have done in their persons ; one face of Janus holds no proportion unto the other. It is too late to be ambitious.
Page 91 - Had they made as good provision for their names as they have done for their relics, they had not so grossly erred in the art of perpetuation.
Page 50 - Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause ; An awful pause! prophetic of her end.
Page 291 - Christ. 2 Cor. iii. 18. But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory as by the Spirit of the Lord.
Page 152 - Of no distemper, of no blast he died, But fell like autumn fruit that mellowed long; Even wondered at, because he dropt no sooner. Fate seemed to wind him up for fourscore years ; Yet freshly ran he on ten winters more : Till, like a clock worn out with eating time, The wheels of weary life at last stood still.
Page 91 - What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.
Page 91 - But the long habit of living indisposeth us for dying ; when avarice makes us the sport of death, when even David grew politicly cruel, and Solomon could hardly be said to be the wisest of men.