The Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle, Volume 1, Issues 63-92W. Lewer, 1829 |
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... better , the King would send some of his regiments to do it , and in the mean time , that the negligent Militia officer be taken and secured to answer the law .'- Vol . i . pp . 111-112 . The following letter goes greater length than ...
... better , the King would send some of his regiments to do it , and in the mean time , that the negligent Militia officer be taken and secured to answer the law .'- Vol . i . pp . 111-112 . The following letter goes greater length than ...
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... better substitute for the Jack Johnstone of the old cast in 1814 ; we think him one of the richest humorists on the stage . Still more irresistible was Keeley , the successor of Bannister , in Scrub . Whenever this actor adds to his ...
... better substitute for the Jack Johnstone of the old cast in 1814 ; we think him one of the richest humorists on the stage . Still more irresistible was Keeley , the successor of Bannister , in Scrub . Whenever this actor adds to his ...
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... better acquainted with the young gentleman , she must think better of him . Thus it is that foolery is tolerated . Look at a coxcomb at a little distance , and ob- serve his silly airs . The animal is absolutely nauseous , and his whole ...
... better acquainted with the young gentleman , she must think better of him . Thus it is that foolery is tolerated . Look at a coxcomb at a little distance , and ob- serve his silly airs . The animal is absolutely nauseous , and his whole ...
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... better known ; and we take credit to our- selves for bringing forward from the obscurity of the peasant's cottage , this picturesque companion to Burn's Tam O'Shanter . ' Who the author was or is , we are wholly ignorant ' ; most of the ...
... better known ; and we take credit to our- selves for bringing forward from the obscurity of the peasant's cottage , this picturesque companion to Burn's Tam O'Shanter . ' Who the author was or is , we are wholly ignorant ' ; most of the ...
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... better to secure a supply of the raw While this continued , I was , I confess , in so un- and entered into conversation on the common pleasant a state of mind , by reason of my latter topics which he supposed me to be interested in ...
... better to secure a supply of the raw While this continued , I was , I confess , in so un- and entered into conversation on the common pleasant a state of mind , by reason of my latter topics which he supposed me to be interested in ...
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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.