The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Volume 87Archibald Constable and Company, 1821 - English literature |
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... human creatures , ( as we have no pretensions to infallibility , ) bears the marks of imperfection . All that we can do in these circumstances is to acknowledge our faults , throw ourselves on thy indulgence , and endeavour to amend ...
... human creatures , ( as we have no pretensions to infallibility , ) bears the marks of imperfection . All that we can do in these circumstances is to acknowledge our faults , throw ourselves on thy indulgence , and endeavour to amend ...
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... human existence with- out a solemn thrill , produced alike by painful recollection and fearful an- ticipation ? We except the very young , who are led on by a sanguine expec- tation of something better in prospect , to a speedy oblivion ...
... human existence with- out a solemn thrill , produced alike by painful recollection and fearful an- ticipation ? We except the very young , who are led on by a sanguine expec- tation of something better in prospect , to a speedy oblivion ...
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... human nature which is al- ways disclosed under the circum- stances in which he was placed : Where profligacy in some instances , and treachery in others , of those with whom he lived , and on whom he de- pended , were the result of ...
... human nature which is al- ways disclosed under the circum- stances in which he was placed : Where profligacy in some instances , and treachery in others , of those with whom he lived , and on whom he de- pended , were the result of ...
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... human form . The rea- son of this distinction , which is pre- served both by the poets and artists of antiquity , may have been from that river taking its rise from Veso , the highest mountain in that range of the Alps , which were ...
... human form . The rea- son of this distinction , which is pre- served both by the poets and artists of antiquity , may have been from that river taking its rise from Veso , the highest mountain in that range of the Alps , which were ...
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... human nature which makes it spare the arrows of reproach , when they cannot be aimed against a living antagonist . The first , and the greatest of the young men , whose loss the muse deplores , is Theo- dore Körner , who fell in a ...
... human nature which makes it spare the arrows of reproach , when they cannot be aimed against a living antagonist . The first , and the greatest of the young men , whose loss the muse deplores , is Theo- dore Körner , who fell in a ...
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Page 547 - Who fill'st existence with Thyself alone : Embracing all, — supporting, — ruling o'er,— Being whom we call GOD — and know no more...
Page 195 - This to hear Would Desdemona seriously incline; But still the house affairs would draw her thence; Which ever as she could with haste dispatch, She'd come again, and with a greedy ear Devour up my discourse. Which I observing, Took once a pliant hour, and found good means To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart That I would all my pilgrimage dilate, Whereof by parcels she had something heard, But not intentively.
Page 548 - But the effluence of Thy light divine, Pervading worlds, hath reached my bosom too ; Yes! in my spirit doth Thy spirit shine, As shines the sunbeam in a drop of dew.
Page 549 - The chain of being is complete in me ; In me is matter's last gradation lost, And the next step is spirit, — Deity ! I can command the lightning and am dust ! A monarch and a slave...
Page 148 - The troublesome Raigne and lamentable Death of Edward the Second, King of England: with the tragicall fall of proud Mortimer.
Page 50 - To carry on the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood ; to combine the child's sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances, which every day for perhaps forty years had rendered familiar ; " With sun and moon and stars throughout the year, And man and woman ;" this is the character and privilege of genius, and one of the marks which distinguish genius from talents.
Page 258 - Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife ! To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name.
Page 548 - All gay with life, all eloquent with bliss, What shall we call them ? Piles of crystal light, A glorious company of golden streams, Lamps of celestial ether burning bright, Suns lighting systems with their joyous beams ? But thou to these art as the noon to night.
Page 429 - Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord God; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live. So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.
Page 148 - And, seeing there was no place to mount up higher, Why should I grieve at my declining fall? Farewell, fair queen; weep not for Mortimer, That scorns the world, and, as a traveller, Goes to discover countries yet unknown.