Analectic Magazine, and Naval Chronicle, Volume 14James Maxwell, 1819 - Books |
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... tion of measured prose , rather than verse ; rhyme is not essential , in the composition of the higher kinds of poetry . Perhaps too , there is not that easiness of repose maintained , which forms so fine a contrast to the more majestic ...
... tion of measured prose , rather than verse ; rhyme is not essential , in the composition of the higher kinds of poetry . Perhaps too , there is not that easiness of repose maintained , which forms so fine a contrast to the more majestic ...
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... tion mademoiselle Charlotte Heidegger , the daughter of M. Hei- degger , a celebrated landscape painter . She was remarkable for her beauty of person and gracefulnesss of manners , to which was united a highly cultivated mind , and a ...
... tion mademoiselle Charlotte Heidegger , the daughter of M. Hei- degger , a celebrated landscape painter . She was remarkable for her beauty of person and gracefulnesss of manners , to which was united a highly cultivated mind , and a ...
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... tion to an undue importance , the taste may lose more in the nicety of its discrimination , than the understanding gains in point of use- ful knowledge ? One thing I can state as a fact , confirmed by my own observation so far as it has ...
... tion to an undue importance , the taste may lose more in the nicety of its discrimination , than the understanding gains in point of use- ful knowledge ? One thing I can state as a fact , confirmed by my own observation so far as it has ...
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... tion , at least as extensively as himself . We leave the proofs to be de- duced from an exhibition of the results obtained . 6 ' But , ' continues our author , sounds which are similar have been re- presented by different signs , and ...
... tion , at least as extensively as himself . We leave the proofs to be de- duced from an exhibition of the results obtained . 6 ' But , ' continues our author , sounds which are similar have been re- presented by different signs , and ...
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... tion to the visual sense would produce the idea of that celebrated edifice , as easily and as promptly as it now produces that of the metaphysical entity which we call thought ; ' had he however contemplated without prepossession ...
... tion to the visual sense would produce the idea of that celebrated edifice , as easily and as promptly as it now produces that of the metaphysical entity which we call thought ; ' had he however contemplated without prepossession ...
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Page 105 - Farewell the tranquil mind ! Farewell content ! Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars, That make ambition virtue ! O, farewell ! Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner ; and all quality. Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war ! And O, you mortal engines, whose rude throats The immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit, Farewell ! Othello's occupation's gone ! lago.
Page 329 - All that he had ever heard - all that he had ever read - when compared with it dwindled into nothing, and vanished like vapour before the sun.
Page 342 - For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.
Page 219 - Plucking ripe clusters from the tender shoots ; Their port was more than human, as they stood : I took it for a faery vision Of some gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play i
Page 481 - History of the House of Austria. From the Foundation of the Monarchy by Rhodolph of Hapsburgh to the Death of Leopold II., 1218-1792.
Page 449 - tis nought to me: Since God is ever present, ever felt, In the void waste as in the city full; And where He vital spreads there must be joy.
Page 431 - Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air...
Page 156 - ... blue sky is o'er thee, Thy bosom Pleasure's shrine ; And thine the sunbeam given To Nature's morning hour, Pure, warm, as when from heaven It burst on Eden's bower. There is a song of sorrow, The death-dirge of the gay, That tells, ere dawn of morrow, These charms may melt away, That sun's bright beam be shaded, That sky be blue no more, The summer flowers be faded, And youth's warm promise o'er. Believe it not — though lonely Thy evening home may be; Though Beauty's bark can only Float on...
Page 191 - Congress, to the maintenance of which independence we solemnly pledge to each other our mutual cooperation, our lives, our fortunes and our most sacred honor. 4. Resolved, that as we now acknowledge the existence and control of no law or legal officer, civil or military, within this county, we do hereby ordain and adopt as a rule of life all, each and every of our former laws — wherein nevertheless the Crown of Great Britain never can be considered as holding rights, privileges, immunities, or...
Page 291 - Prologue will show, was composed under a belief that the Imagination not only does not require for its exercise the intervention of supernatural agency, but that, though such agency be excluded, the faculty may be called forth as imperiously, and for kindred results of pleasure, by incidents, within the compass of poetic probability, in the humblest departments of daily life.