The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review, Volume 3David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher Munroe & Francis, 1806 vol. 3-4 include appendix: "The Political cabinet." |
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... correct ; of Menander ; all that is wanting of Eschylus ; of Euripi- des ; the poems of Empidocles , and of Stersichorus ; a variety of philosophical writings of Theo- phrastus , Epicurus , and many others ; and a multitude of histor ...
... correct ; of Menander ; all that is wanting of Eschylus ; of Euripi- des ; the poems of Empidocles , and of Stersichorus ; a variety of philosophical writings of Theo- phrastus , Epicurus , and many others ; and a multitude of histor ...
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... correct ly and more certainly . Now there our errors , we must trace them to is some truth in this charge , and their source . This consideration I will join them in the opinion , has induced me , to present the prethat my brethren are ...
... correct ly and more certainly . Now there our errors , we must trace them to is some truth in this charge , and their source . This consideration I will join them in the opinion , has induced me , to present the prethat my brethren are ...
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... correct supported . On the one hand , a ness , the same majesty of num- man of learning and knowledge , bers , allowing for the inferiority who had read all that can be read , of a modern language . There is and remembered all that can ...
... correct supported . On the one hand , a ness , the same majesty of num- man of learning and knowledge , bers , allowing for the inferiority who had read all that can be read , of a modern language . There is and remembered all that can ...
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... correctly . Now reduce this to painting , and what kind of pic- ture does it present ? Spring , an allegorical personage , is described as descending from the bosom of a dropping cloud ( quere , what does the cloud drop ? ) while musick ...
... correctly . Now reduce this to painting , and what kind of pic- ture does it present ? Spring , an allegorical personage , is described as descending from the bosom of a dropping cloud ( quere , what does the cloud drop ? ) while musick ...
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... correct 95 vols . 12mo . the Bibliothèque Choisie from blunders , to check the contagion 1703 to 1718 , 28 vols . 12mo , and the of false taste , to rescue the pub . .Bibliothèque Ancienne Moderne from 1714 to 1727 , 29 vols . 12mo . S ...
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Page 464 - After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer the question that has once been asked, Whether Pope was a poet, otherwise than by asking in return, If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found?
Page 286 - And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people : and he shall be, even he shall be to thee instead of a mouth, and thou shalt be to him instead of God.
Page 545 - In peace, Love tunes the shepherd's reed; In war, he mounts the warrior's steed; In halls, in gay attire is seen; In hamlets, dances on the green. Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above ; For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
Page 546 - BREATHES there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land? Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned From wandering on a foreign strand?
Page 523 - Look then abroad through Nature, to the range Of planets, suns, and adamantine spheres, Wheeling unshaken through the void immense ; And speak, O man ! does this capacious scene With half that kindling majesty dilate Thy strong conception, as when Brutus rose Refulgent from the stroke of Caesar's fate, Amid the crowd of patriots ; and his arm Aloft extending, like eternal Jove When guilt brings down the thunder, call'd aloud On Tully's name, and shook his crimson steel, And bade the father of his...
Page 582 - It implied an inconceivable severity of conviction, that he had one thing to do, and that he who would do some great thing in this short life must apply himself to the work with such a concentration of his forces, as to idle spectators, who live only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity.
Page 641 - wildered he drops from some cliff huge in stature, And draws his last sob by the side of his dam.
Page 546 - That day of wrath, that dreadful day, When heaven and earth shall pass away, What power shall be the sinner's stay ? How shall he meet that dreadful day...
Page 464 - To circumscribe poetry by a definition will only show the narrowness of the definer, though a definition which shall exclude Pope will not easily be made. Let us look round upon the present time and back upon the past; let us...
Page 532 - The purple heath and golden broom, On moory mountains catch the gale, O'er lawns the lily sheds perfume, The violet in the vale; But this bold floweret climbs the hill, Hides in the forest, haunts the glen, Plays on the margin of the rill, Peeps round the fox's den. Within the garden's cultured round It shares the sweet carnation's bed; And blooms on consecrated ground In honour of the dead.