The New Monthly Magazine and HumoristHenry Colburn, 1846 - English literature |
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Page 358 - Worth makes the man, the want of it the fellow ; The rest is all but leather and prunella.
Page 120 - God disapproved of their project ; and Rookwood and others, " perceiving God to be against them, prayed before the picture of our Lady, and confessed that the act was so bloody as they desired God to forgive them.
Page 95 - It was known that some few still lingered, but they were almost forgotten. " The winter of 1830 was unusually severe in this country, and prolonged beyond those of former years. Towards its close, a settler was hewing down trees at some distance from one of the remote villages, when two gaunt figures crept out from the neighbouring 'bush;' with sad cries and imploring gestures, they tried to express their prayer for help.
Page 82 - Oh, leave this barren spot to me ! Spare, woodman, spare the beechen tree ! Though...
Page 219 - Philoctetes' care He leaves his deathful instruments of war ; To him commits those arrows, which again Shall see the bulwarks of the Trojan reign. The son of...
Page 95 - We do not hesitate to say that this is one of the most interesting and instructive books that have been published for many years upon Ireland.
Page 442 - Lassen supplying an identification of at least twelve characters, which had been mistaken by all his predecessors, may entitle him almost to contest with Professor Grotefend the palm of alphabetical discovery.
Page 316 - ... lake poets" appeared, because they had faith in the " invariable principles" of Bowles, under whose principle the Venus de Medicis could not be natural, because that statue is composed of perfect portions of the female form, too perfect for existing nature, therefore, too, it could not be poetical. Such seems to have been the sense of the question in the plainest form in which I can put it from recollection, at the time Campbell entered upon the discussion. - Long years have passed since, and...
Page 202 - Byron's description of Campbell in 1813, taken generally, is correct regarding the poet down as late as 1835 or 1836, hardly later than the last year. " Campbell looks well— seems pleased, and dressed sprucely. A blue coat becomes him — so does his new wig. He really looked as if Apollo had sent him a birthday suit or a wedding garment, and was witty and lively.
Page 438 - EDUCATION. The striving of modern fashionable education is to make the character impressive ; while the result of good education, though not the aim, would be to make it expressive. There is a tendency in modern education to cover the fingers with rings, and, at the same time, to cut the sinews at the wrist. The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches every thing else, and not that.