The London Quarterly Review, Volume 11Theodore Foster, 1814 |
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Pagina 8
... seems to have deserved more honour as a grammarian and logician than as a poet , while Guido merits the higher praise of having brought to perfection that species of po- etry which is termed the Canzone , and of having at the same time ...
... seems to have deserved more honour as a grammarian and logician than as a poet , while Guido merits the higher praise of having brought to perfection that species of po- etry which is termed the Canzone , and of having at the same time ...
Pagina 12
... seems to exclude ornaments of this description , and , from expecting only the supernaturally terrible and sublime , we are , perhaps , too hastily led to conclude , that nothing else can , by any possibility , have found admission into ...
... seems to exclude ornaments of this description , and , from expecting only the supernaturally terrible and sublime , we are , perhaps , too hastily led to conclude , that nothing else can , by any possibility , have found admission into ...
Pagina 25
... seems we may ascribe the high honour of giving birth to that peculiar species of national pleasantry which , in a later age , Berni brought to perfection . ' The century which , after the death of Petrarch , was consecrated by the ...
... seems we may ascribe the high honour of giving birth to that peculiar species of national pleasantry which , in a later age , Berni brought to perfection . ' The century which , after the death of Petrarch , was consecrated by the ...
Pagina 26
... seems to be the true account of the state of letters in Italy during the fifteenth century , and it affords the most satisfactory solution of the doubts which , in a former work of M. Sismondi * are insisted upon with more eloquence and ...
... seems to be the true account of the state of letters in Italy during the fifteenth century , and it affords the most satisfactory solution of the doubts which , in a former work of M. Sismondi * are insisted upon with more eloquence and ...
Pagina 30
... seems to ac- company all his descriptions of battles , Ariosto always knows how to excite a sort of indescribable enthusiasm of bravery , of intoxication of heroism , which makes every reader burn to arm himself a knight . One of man's ...
... seems to ac- company all his descriptions of battles , Ariosto always knows how to excite a sort of indescribable enthusiasm of bravery , of intoxication of heroism , which makes every reader burn to arm himself a knight . One of man's ...
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Pagina 429 - How gloriously her gallant course she goes ! Her white wings flying — never from her foes — She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife.
Pagina 314 - For wheresoe'er I turn my ravish'd eyes, gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise, poetic fields encompass me around, and still I seem to tread on classic ground...
Pagina 192 - he did not beg a long life of God for any other reason, " but to live to finish his three remaining books of Polity ; " and then, Lord, let thy servant depart in peace;" which was his usual expression.
Pagina 493 - A man — the monarch of his mind. Now taste and try this temper, Sirs, Mood it, and brood it in your breast ; Or if ye ween, for worldly stirs That man does right to mar his rest, Let me be *deft and debonair, I am content, I do not care.
Pagina 136 - He called forth the latent virtues of the human heart, and taught men to discover in themselves a mine of charity, of which the proprietors had been unconscious. In feeding the lamp of charity, he has almost exhausted the lamp of life.
Pagina 497 - Tell them, I AM, JEHOVAH said To MOSES; while earth heard in dread, And, smitten to the heart, At once above, beneath, around, All Nature, without voice or sound, Replied, "O LORD, THOU ART.
Pagina 222 - The Report of the Select Committee of the House of Commons, appointed to inquire into the state of the...
Pagina 371 - Awake on your hills, on your islands awake, Brave sons of the mountain, the frith, and the lake ! 'Tis the bugle — but not for the chase is the call ; 'Tis the pibroch's shrill summons — but not to the hall. 'Tis the summons of heroes for conquest or death. When the banners are blazing on mountain and heath ; They call to the dirk, the claymore, and the targe, To the march and the muster, the line and the charge.
Pagina 314 - Now my weary lips I close: Leave me, leave me to repose.
Pagina 513 - THE BORDER ANTIQUITIES OF ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND, comprising Specimens of Architecture and Sculpture, and other Vestiges of Former Ages, accompanied by Descriptions. Together with Illustrations of remarkable Incidents in Border History and Tradition, and Original Poetry.