The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volumen16Leavitt, Trow, & Company, 1849 |
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... to its preservation . " | Can there be anything more trashy than this . It is , however , with the latter of the neg- lected truths in question that the present vol- ume deals . The first not being finished , we have therefore the ...
... to its preservation . " | Can there be anything more trashy than this . It is , however , with the latter of the neg- lected truths in question that the present vol- ume deals . The first not being finished , we have therefore the ...
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... have neither new facts and materials , nor happy illustrations of old ones . The noble writer's works are objectless ; " we rise from their perusal with no fresh information of any kind , and are at a loss to understand why the premier ...
... have neither new facts and materials , nor happy illustrations of old ones . The noble writer's works are objectless ; " we rise from their perusal with no fresh information of any kind , and are at a loss to understand why the premier ...
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... but had afterwards neglected the author , endeavored , by a flattering ... not to pass unrewarded : in 1762 he was honorably presented by the king , on ... should , in the close of life , be- tray dreadful apprehensions of death . By ...
... but had afterwards neglected the author , endeavored , by a flattering ... not to pass unrewarded : in 1762 he was honorably presented by the king , on ... should , in the close of life , be- tray dreadful apprehensions of death . By ...
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... was de- fined ,. Apparently the highly - gifted and cultivated amateur , on the other hand , is one of the most enviable creatures in the world . Beauty must always dazzle , and wealth buy ; but no disparity in the respective powers of ...
... was de- fined ,. Apparently the highly - gifted and cultivated amateur , on the other hand , is one of the most enviable creatures in the world . Beauty must always dazzle , and wealth buy ; but no disparity in the respective powers of ...
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... to the various moods of humani- ty . A composer is now helped so far for ... feel whether he wants the earnest , honest , grand matter of fact of the natural ... not only in the full common chord of the natural key , but modulates through ...
... to the various moods of humani- ty . A composer is now helped so far for ... feel whether he wants the earnest , honest , grand matter of fact of the natural ... not only in the full common chord of the natural key , but modulates through ...
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Página 202 - But in these cases We still have judgment here; that we but teach Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return To plague the inventor: This even-handed justice Commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice To our own lips.
Página 210 - Hell is murky. Fie, my lord, fie ! a soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account? Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? Doct. Do you mark that? Lady M. The thane of Fife had a wife; where is she now? What, will these hands ne'er be clean? No more o' that, my lord, no more o' that: you mar all with this starting.
Página 508 - And she may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's.
Página 208 - Who was it that thus cried ? Why, worthy thane, You do unbend your noble strength, to think So brainsickly of things. Go, get some water, And wash this filthy witness from your hand.
Página 145 - A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence, because he has no identity ; he is continually in for, and filling, some other body. The sun, the moon, the sea, and men and women, who are creatures of impulse, are poetical, and have about them an unchangeable attribute ; the poet has none, no identity. He is certainly the most unpoetical of all God's creatures.
Página 15 - Goldsmith's plain narrative will please again and again. I would say to Robertson what an old tutor of a college said to one of his pupils : ' Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Página 145 - I am a member ; that sort distinguished from the Wordsworthian, or egotistical Sublime ; which is a thing per se, and stands alone), it is not itself — it has no self- -It is every thing and nothing — It has no character...
Página 205 - Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition : By that sin fell the angels; how can man, then, The image of his Maker, hope to win by it ? Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee ; Corruption wins not more than honesty.
Página 150 - That it is so is no fault of mine. No ! — though it may sound a little paradoxical. It is as good as I had power to make it — by myself — Had I been nervous...
Página 211 - She should have died hereafter; There would have been a time for such a word. Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death.