The Retrospective Review, Volume 1Charles and Henry Baldwyn, 1820 - Books |
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... appear the brighter for the trial ; many a well - looking and well- bound volume will fall into ashes in our hands , as the tempting fruit does , which is said to float on the sur- face of the Dead Sea ; while from others , ponderous ...
... appear the brighter for the trial ; many a well - looking and well- bound volume will fall into ashes in our hands , as the tempting fruit does , which is said to float on the sur- face of the Dead Sea ; while from others , ponderous ...
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... appears to have been a man of considerable acuteness , maddened by a furious zeal for the honour of tragedy . He lays down the most fantas- tical rules for the composition which he chiefly reveres , and argues on them as " truths of ...
... appears to have been a man of considerable acuteness , maddened by a furious zeal for the honour of tragedy . He lays down the most fantas- tical rules for the composition which he chiefly reveres , and argues on them as " truths of ...
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... appears quite out of his element ; his brains are turned - he raves and rambles without any coherence , any spark of reason , or any rule to controul him , to set bounds to his phrenzy . " One truth , though the author did not ...
... appears quite out of his element ; his brains are turned - he raves and rambles without any coherence , any spark of reason , or any rule to controul him , to set bounds to his phrenzy . " One truth , though the author did not ...
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... poets breathe over all the crea- tions of their genius ! Their exquisite groups appear , in all the venerableness of hoar antiquity ; yet in the distinct- ness and in the bloom of unfading youth . All 12 Rymer on Tragedy .
... poets breathe over all the crea- tions of their genius ! Their exquisite groups appear , in all the venerableness of hoar antiquity ; yet in the distinct- ness and in the bloom of unfading youth . All 12 Rymer on Tragedy .
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... appear the shapes of eldest gods , and the solemn abstractions of life , fearfully embodied- " Death the skeleton , and time the shadow ! " Surely there is something more in all this , than a vivid pic- ture of the sad realities of our ...
... appear the shapes of eldest gods , and the solemn abstractions of life , fearfully embodied- " Death the skeleton , and time the shadow ! " Surely there is something more in all this , than a vivid pic- ture of the sad realities of our ...
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Page 74 - 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 - ... it cannot be long before we lie down in darkness and have our light in ashes...
Page 312 - tis the soul of peace ; Of all the virtues 'tis nearest kin to heaven ; It makes men look like gods. The best of men That e'er wore earth about him was a sufferer, A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit, The first true gentleman that ever breath'd.
Page 90 - The number of the dead long exceedeth all that shall live. The night of time far surpasseth the day, and who knows when was the equinox?
Page 136 - I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
Page 93 - 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 93 - To be ignorant of evils to come, and forgetful of evils past, is a merciful provision in nature, whereby we digest the mixture of our few and evil days ; and our delivered senses not relapsing into cutting remembrances, our sorrows are not kept raw by the edge of repetitions.
Page 18 - That day she was dressed in white silk, bordered with pearls of the size of beans, and over it a mantle of black silk, shot with silver threads ; her train was very long, the end of it borne by a marchioness ; instead of a chain she had an oblong collar of gold and jewels.
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 91 - 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.