The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volumen102A. Constable, 1855 |
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... party characteristics . The political consistency of Dryden has been vehemently impugned , but it was exposed to severe trials from the political changes and the social condition of the age he lived in . He was one of the last writers ...
... party characteristics . The political consistency of Dryden has been vehemently impugned , but it was exposed to severe trials from the political changes and the social condition of the age he lived in . He was one of the last writers ...
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... party - had passed away . A new Parliament , and a new form of Administration , were called into existence in 1679. Shaftesbury became Presi- dent of the Privy Council of Thirty , and virtually directed the House of Commons . The ...
... party - had passed away . A new Parliament , and a new form of Administration , were called into existence in 1679. Shaftesbury became Presi- dent of the Privy Council of Thirty , and virtually directed the House of Commons . The ...
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... party ; he had professed almost every conceivable principle . He was versed in every variety of political demonstration . He might have set the capital on fire at Constantinople ; he might have raised barricades in the streets of Paris ...
... party ; he had professed almost every conceivable principle . He was versed in every variety of political demonstration . He might have set the capital on fire at Constantinople ; he might have raised barricades in the streets of Paris ...
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... party , against whom the satire was chiefly directed . The application of those names would , therefore , be readily discerned by that class . Allegory , on the other hand , imparts a further interest to satire through the thin veil of ...
... party , against whom the satire was chiefly directed . The application of those names would , therefore , be readily discerned by that class . Allegory , on the other hand , imparts a further interest to satire through the thin veil of ...
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... party zeal were then violently raging . The mutual hostility of the Romanists and the Dissenters had not then been characterised by the modera- tion which it afterwards assumed under the ecclesiastical policy of James II . The ...
... party zeal were then violently raging . The mutual hostility of the Romanists and the Dissenters had not then been characterised by the modera- tion which it afterwards assumed under the ecclesiastical policy of James II . The ...
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Página 504 - The Danube to the Severn gave The darken'd heart that beat no more; They laid him by the pleasant shore, And in the hearing of the wave. There twice a day the Severn fills; The salt sea-water passes by, And hushes half the babbling Wye, And makes a silence in the hills.
Página 422 - And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand: and Joshua went unto him, and said unto him, "Art thou for us, or for our adversaries?" And he said, " Nay ; but as captain of the host of the Lord am I now come.
Página 545 - A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses.
Página 510 - I have led her home, my love, my only friend. There is none like her, none. And never yet so warmly ran my blood And sweetly, on and on Calming itself to the long-wish'd-for end, Full to the banks, close on the promised good. None like her, none. Just now the dry-tongued laurels...
Página 423 - The Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
Página 249 - Better a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
Página 255 - O'er-run and trampled on: then what they do in present, Though less than yours in past, must o'ertop yours...
Página 423 - For the leaders of this people cause them to err ; and they that are led of them are destroyed.
Página 252 - ... and we are not to expect that the majority will be disposed to look to much more than the outward sign. I believe the fact to be, that wit is very seldom the only eminent quality which resides in the mind of any man ; it is commonly accompanied by many other talents of every description, and ought to be considered as a strong evidence of a fertile and superior understanding. Almost all the great poets, orators, and statesmen of all times, have been witty.
Página 424 - To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!