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... I wish for less?) To atone for charms unseized and splendours lost ! — No ! the
bright rainbow marks the child's caress, Who can but sorrow, as his fancy's
crossed, That e'er so beautiful a thing should rise To elude his grasp, yet so
enchant ...
... I wish for less?) To atone for charms unseized and splendours lost ! — No ! the
bright rainbow marks the child's caress, Who can but sorrow, as his fancy's
crossed, That e'er so beautiful a thing should rise To elude his grasp, yet so
enchant ...
Page 91
All the world is more or less acquainted with those immense masses , the
pyramids of Egypt , which were considered among the wonders of antiquity . The
materials of which the largest of them is constructed , were dug out of the earth at
a ...
All the world is more or less acquainted with those immense masses , the
pyramids of Egypt , which were considered among the wonders of antiquity . The
materials of which the largest of them is constructed , were dug out of the earth at
a ...
Page 133
The genius of England has never yet flowed out so freely in sculpture as it has
done in poetry . There is , indeed , less room for its ardour , less fame when
perfection is attained , and less 13 chance , chance , when all is done that art can
do ...
The genius of England has never yet flowed out so freely in sculpture as it has
done in poetry . There is , indeed , less room for its ardour , less fame when
perfection is attained , and less 13 chance , chance , when all is done that art can
do ...
Page 237
In an immense house where the business of the play can only occupy that part of
the company who are near the stage , its proprietors are tempted to admit , nay
encourage , the attendance of those who come thither for amusement of a less ...
In an immense house where the business of the play can only occupy that part of
the company who are near the stage , its proprietors are tempted to admit , nay
encourage , the attendance of those who come thither for amusement of a less ...
Page 306
... beauties of England , it is no wonder if there were little feeling for the
sublimities of art , and less for those of nature . ... and other less - mentionable
parts , hung up beside them in honour , ex voto , of their wonder - working virtue ;
but they ...
... beauties of England , it is no wonder if there were little feeling for the
sublimities of art , and less for those of nature . ... and other less - mentionable
parts , hung up beside them in honour , ex voto , of their wonder - working virtue ;
but they ...
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volume 34 |
| Contributors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1826 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 13 Jun 2005 |
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