The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 23A. Constable, 1814 |
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... Poems on Several Occasions . Moonlight , a Poem , with several Copies of Verses . The Doge's Daughter , a Poem ; with several Transla- tions from Anacreon and Horace . Ariadne A Poem , in Three Parts . All by Edward , Lord Thurlow 340 ...
... Poems on Several Occasions . Moonlight , a Poem , with several Copies of Verses . The Doge's Daughter , a Poem ; with several Transla- tions from Anacreon and Horace . Ariadne A Poem , in Three Parts . All by Edward , Lord Thurlow 340 ...
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... poem , but so entirely the same with the Malay , is now in the possession of the writer of this article . The style of these romances , for such they are , and their merit as literary performances , are as equal as the subjects are ...
... poem , but so entirely the same with the Malay , is now in the possession of the writer of this article . The style of these romances , for such they are , and their merit as literary performances , are as equal as the subjects are ...
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... poets delight by their vivacity , or enchant by their sweet- ness , he alone has been able to command the sympathy , even of reluctant readers , by the natural magic of his moral sublimity , and the terrors and attractions of those ...
... poets delight by their vivacity , or enchant by their sweet- ness , he alone has been able to command the sympathy , even of reluctant readers , by the natural magic of his moral sublimity , and the terrors and attractions of those ...
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... poets of the last twenty years have dealt much more in powerful sensations , than those of the century that went before ; but that , in order to attain this object , they have employed themselves upon subjects which would have been ...
... poets of the last twenty years have dealt much more in powerful sensations , than those of the century that went before ; but that , in order to attain this object , they have employed themselves upon subjects which would have been ...
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... poets , in short , have borrowed little more than the situations and unre- strained passions of the state of society from which they have taken their characters - and have added all the sensibility and delicacy from the stores of their ...
... poets , in short , have borrowed little more than the situations and unre- strained passions of the state of society from which they have taken their characters - and have added all the sensibility and delicacy from the stores of their ...
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Pagina 426 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me; because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me : and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Pagina 203 - Sun-burnt his cheek, his forehead high and pale The sable curls in wild profusion veil; And oft perforce his rising lip reveals The haughtier thought it curbs, but scarce conceals Though smooth his voice, and calm his general mien Still seems there something he would not have seen His features...
Pagina 426 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me : and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me : because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me ; and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Pagina 425 - Yet a few years, we think, and all that now bless, or all that now convulse humanity, will also have perished. The mightiest pageantry of life will pass, the loudest notes of triumph or of conquest will be silent in the grave; — the wicked, wherever active, " will cease from troubling," and the weary, wherever suffering,
Pagina 204 - There was a laughing Devil in his sneer, That raised emotions both of rage and fear; And where his frown of hatred darkly fell, Hope withering fled, and Mercy sigh'd farewell!
Pagina 211 - Slow sinks, more lovely ere his race be run, Along Morea's hills the setting sun: Not, as in northern climes, obscurely bright, But one unclouded blaze of living light! O'er the hush'd deep the yellow beam he throws Gilds the green wave, that trembles as it glows.
Pagina 211 - Salamis ! Their azure arches through the long expanse More deeply purpled meet his mellowing glance, And tenderest tints, along their summits driven, Mark his gay course and own the hues of heaven; Till, darkly shaded from the land and deep, Behind his Delphian cliff he sinks to sleep.
Pagina 257 - ASIA, being the first portion of a General Collection of Voyages and Travels; forming a complete History of the origin and progress of discovery, by Sea and Land, from the earliest ages to the present time.
Pagina 500 - Literary History of the Middle Ages ; comprehending an Account of the State of Learning from the Close of the Reign of Augustus to its Revival in the Fifteenth Century.
Pagina 268 - In a short time a new taste and new perceptions began to dawn upon me, and I was convinced that I had originally formed a false opinion of the perfection of art, and that this great painter was well entitled to the high rank which he holds in the estimation of the world.