The Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle, Volume 1, Issues 63-92W. Lewer, 1829 |
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... Lord Pembroke will succeed in one or both the commands , as I guess . Sir Edward Hales made Governor of Barbadoes . Me- rideth , a sort of Privy Councillor to Lord Sunderland , has put Clarke in dead Fr. Benson's room . Duchess of ...
... Lord Pembroke will succeed in one or both the commands , as I guess . Sir Edward Hales made Governor of Barbadoes . Me- rideth , a sort of Privy Councillor to Lord Sunderland , has put Clarke in dead Fr. Benson's room . Duchess of ...
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... Lord Preston , he denies all with impreca- tions ; and Mr. Musgrave pretends to answer for my Lord Dartmouth , that he never either said or thought such a thing . I could well enough sit down with this dirt thrown at me , knowing that ...
... Lord Preston , he denies all with impreca- tions ; and Mr. Musgrave pretends to answer for my Lord Dartmouth , that he never either said or thought such a thing . I could well enough sit down with this dirt thrown at me , knowing that ...
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... Lord Byron , and composed expressly for Miss Paton . By John Barnett . May hew and Co. 2s . This is by far the best specimen we have yet seen of Barnett's writing : it abounds with excellent modula- tion , appropriate expression , and ...
... Lord Byron , and composed expressly for Miss Paton . By John Barnett . May hew and Co. 2s . This is by far the best specimen we have yet seen of Barnett's writing : it abounds with excellent modula- tion , appropriate expression , and ...
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... Lord Monboddo , Origin and Progress of Language , vol . iii . Oriental Metaphor . - He feared not the number of tents where death , the mother of vultures , had fixed her mansion . - Zohair , Transl . by Sir Wm . Jones . 6. CHIVALRIC ...
... Lord Monboddo , Origin and Progress of Language , vol . iii . Oriental Metaphor . - He feared not the number of tents where death , the mother of vultures , had fixed her mansion . - Zohair , Transl . by Sir Wm . Jones . 6. CHIVALRIC ...
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... Lord J. Russell , vol . 2 , 4to . , 2. 10s . Venn's Duty of Man , new edition , 8vo . , 8s . Cruden . The learned Cruden , author of the Con- cordance to the Bible , professed his determination not to marry , because , by obeying the ...
... Lord J. Russell , vol . 2 , 4to . , 2. 10s . Venn's Duty of Man , new edition , 8vo . , 8s . Cruden . The learned Cruden , author of the Con- cordance to the Bible , professed his determination not to marry , because , by obeying the ...
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Page 25 - Dost in these lines their artless tale relate; If chance, by lonely contemplation led, Some kindred spirit shall inquire thy fate, Haply some hoary-headed swain may say, "Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn Brushing with hasty steps the dews away To meet the sun upon the upland lawn.
Page 29 - Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me ! You would play upon me ; you would seem to know my stops ; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery ; you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass : and there is much music, excellent voice, in this little organ ; yet cannot you make it speak. 'Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe ? Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.
Page 159 - But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover! A savage place! as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover!
Page 145 - O mistress mine, where are you roaming ? O, stay and hear ; your true love's coming, That can sing both high and low : Trip no further, pretty sweeting ; Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know.
Page 143 - I do not know what I may appear to the world ; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Page 179 - ... the part of the reader; from the rapid flow, the quick change, and the playful nature of the thoughts and images; and, above all, from the alienation, and, if I may hazard such an expression, the utter aloofness of the poet's own feelings from those of which he is at once the painter and the analyst; that, though the very subject cannot but detract from the pleasure of a delicate mind, yet never was poem less dangerous on a moral account.
Page 159 - Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail, Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail: And mid these dancing rocks at once and ever It flung up momently the sacred river. Five miles meandering with a mazy motion. Through wood and dale the sacred river ran, Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean: And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far Ancestral voices prophesying war...
Page 159 - Columbia, laborer, not having the fear of God before his eyes, but being moved and seduced by the instigation of the devil...
Page 145 - tis not hereafter; Present mirth hath present laughter; What's to come is still unsure: In delay there lies no plenty; Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty, Youth's a stuff will not endure. 202 Sir And. A mellifluous voice, as I am true knight. Sir To. A contagious breath. Sir And. Very sweet and contagious, i
Page 87 - For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.