The Edinburgh Literary Journal: Or, Weekly Register of Criticism and Belles Lettres, Volume 3Ballantyne, 1830 - Great Britain Vol. 2 includes "The poet Shelley--his unpublished work, T̀he wandering Jew'" (p. 43-45, [57]-60) |
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... meet it calmly and sagaciously when it came . The quiet His next march was upon Cholula , a populous and decision with which Cortes persisted to advance towards wealthy town , subject to Montezuma . He was accom- the capital , joined to ...
... meet it calmly and sagaciously when it came . The quiet His next march was upon Cholula , a populous and decision with which Cortes persisted to advance towards wealthy town , subject to Montezuma . He was accom- the capital , joined to ...
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... meet with none of those ingenious speculations which so peculiarly characterise the writings of Kames . But in the digest of its practical rules , and in prescribing the standard of taste by which these are to be influenced , we are ...
... meet with none of those ingenious speculations which so peculiarly characterise the writings of Kames . But in the digest of its practical rules , and in prescribing the standard of taste by which these are to be influenced , we are ...
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... meets as usual , to ballot for new members , and pass the proper , have come back again , and Mr Pindar , after lean- accompts . The Dublin Society is in full correspondenceing over his music - stand to say something exceedingly with ...
... meets as usual , to ballot for new members , and pass the proper , have come back again , and Mr Pindar , after lean- accompts . The Dublin Society is in full correspondenceing over his music - stand to say something exceedingly with ...
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... meets in good society , we hold equally preposterous . Were her cheek to his lips , and retired to demand his redeemed the following advice , for example , to be adopted , a stiff pledge in evident confusion . His mistress gaily smiled ...
... meets in good society , we hold equally preposterous . Were her cheek to his lips , and retired to demand his redeemed the following advice , for example , to be adopted , a stiff pledge in evident confusion . His mistress gaily smiled ...
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... meet on earth no more— The tide that bears thee from the shore Is ebbing , dark and fast ; - Our efforts and thy struggles fail , For nought can human aid avail . Though Death's cold chill is on thy brow , And pain oppresseth thee , The ...
... meet on earth no more— The tide that bears thee from the shore Is ebbing , dark and fast ; - Our efforts and thy struggles fail , For nought can human aid avail . Though Death's cold chill is on thy brow , And pain oppresseth thee , The ...
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Page 42 - My passion had its usual effects upon me — I could not sleep — I could not eat — I could not rest : and although I had reason to know that she loved me, it was the texture of my life to think of the time which must elapse before we could meet again, being usually about twelve hours of separation ! But I was a fool then, and am not much wiser now.
Page 264 - He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, Who dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.
Page 262 - I, therefore, came to stand nearly upon the footing which honest Slender consoled himself on having established with Mistress Anne Page ; " There was no great love between us at the beginning, and it pleased Heaven to decrease it on farther acquaintance." I became sensible that the time was come when I must either buckle myself resolutely to the " toil by day, the lamp by night...
Page 42 - As a scholar he was greatly my superior ; as a declaimer and actor I was reckoned at least his equal ; as a school-boy out of School, I was always in scrapes, and he never ; and in School, he always knew his lesson, and I rarely — but when I knew it, I knew it nearly as well. In general information, history, &c. &c. I think I was his superior, as well as of most boys of my standing.
Page 46 - John Adams lies here, of the parish of Southwell, A Carrier, who carried his can to his mouth well ; He carried so much, and he carried so fast, He could carry no more — so was...
Page 43 - He ordered me to be presented to him at a ball ; and after some sayings peculiarly pleasing from royal lips, as to my own attempts, he talked to me of you and your immortalities : he preferred you to every bard past and present, and asked which of your works pleased me most. It was a difficult question. I answered, I thought the
Page 43 - To be thus praised by your Sovereign must be gratifying to you ; and if that gratification is not alloyed by the communication being made through me, the bearer of it will consider himself very fortunately and sincerely, " Your obliged and obedient servant, " BYRON. " P. S — Excuse this scrawl, scratched in a great hurry, and just after a journey.
Page 253 - ... devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Page 187 - My name from the palms of His hands Eternity will not erase ; Impressed on His heart it remains In marks of indelible grace : Yes ! I to the end shall endure As sure as the earnest is given : More happy, but not more secure, The glorified spirits in heaven.
Page 264 - The attempt to return to a more simple and natural style of poetry was likely to be welcomed at a time when the public had become tired of heroic hexameters, with all the buckram and binding which belong to them of later days. But whatever might have been his expectations, whether moderate or unreasonable, tinresult left them far behind...