The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science and Art, Volumen3E. Littell, 1823 |
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... believe , however , that his opinion of Lord Chatham was unjust ; and we shall trouble our readers with some of the reasons which induce us to think so . In order to do this , it will be necessary to advert to some of the leading facts ...
... believe , however , that his opinion of Lord Chatham was unjust ; and we shall trouble our readers with some of the reasons which induce us to think so . In order to do this , it will be necessary to advert to some of the leading facts ...
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... believe , that talents like Mr. Pitt's , if they were ever marketable , would not have been immediately bought up by the minister , who happened , at the very time when they were first developed , to be in peculiar want of efficient ...
... believe , that talents like Mr. Pitt's , if they were ever marketable , would not have been immediately bought up by the minister , who happened , at the very time when they were first developed , to be in peculiar want of efficient ...
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... believe it will , by any one who examines the public life of this great statesman with ordinary at- tention and candour , that he sought , on all occasions , the honour of his country and her true interests ; that with this noble ...
... believe it will , by any one who examines the public life of this great statesman with ordinary at- tention and candour , that he sought , on all occasions , the honour of his country and her true interests ; that with this noble ...
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... believe , that such a witness is not very likely to ex- aggerate them . Moreover , the following extract will show in what manner the opponents of Lord Chatham contrived to qualify their reluctant praises . " Mr. Pitt , on entering into ...
... believe , that such a witness is not very likely to ex- aggerate them . Moreover , the following extract will show in what manner the opponents of Lord Chatham contrived to qualify their reluctant praises . " Mr. Pitt , on entering into ...
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... believe , that the success of the last great battle , in which the troops of this country were engaged , is in no small degree attributable to the descendants of those who , before the time of Lord Chatham , were branded with the stigma ...
... believe , that the success of the last great battle , in which the troops of this country were engaged , is in no small degree attributable to the descendants of those who , before the time of Lord Chatham , were branded with the stigma ...
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Página 549 - THE measure is English heroic verse without rime, as that of Homer in Greek, and of Virgil in Latin, — rime being no necessary adjunct or true ornament of poem or good verse, in longer works especially, but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre...
Página 549 - ... apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another...
Página 250 - His eye-balls farther out than when he lived. Staring full ghastly like a strangled man : His hair uprear'd, his nostrils stretch'd with struggling ; His hands abroad display'd, as one that grasp'd And tugg'd for life, and was by strength subdued.
Página 557 - Of breaking honesty:) horsing foot on foot? Skulking in corners ? wishing clocks more swift ? Hours, minutes ? noon, midnight ? and all eyes blind With the pin and web,' but theirs, theirs only, That would unseen be wicked ? is this nothing ? Why, then the world, and all that's in't, is nothing; The covering sky is nothing ; Bohemia nothing; My wife is nothing; nor nothing have these nothings, If this be nothing.
Página 561 - ... with entire submission of our own faculties, and in the perfect faith that in them there can be no too much or too little, nothing useless or inert — but that, the further we press in our discoveries, the more we shall see proofs of design and self-supporting arrangement where the careless eye had seen nothing but accident ! LEVANA AND OUR LADIES OF SORROW OFTENTIMES at Oxford I saw Levana in my dreams.
Página 561 - In order that a new world may step in, this world must for a time disappear. The murderers and the murder must be insulated — cut off by an immeasurable gulf from the ordinary tide and succession of human affairs — locked up and sequestered in some deep recess; we must be made sensible that the world of ordinary life is suddenly arrested — laid asleep — tranced — racked into a dread armistice...
Página 560 - Duncan,' and adequately to expound 'the deep damnation of his taking off,' this was to be expressed with peculiar energy. We were to be made to feel that the human nature, ie the divine nature of love and mercy, spread through the hearts of all creatures, and seldom utterly withdrawn from man, - was gone, vanished, extinct; and that the fiendish nature had taken its place. And, as this effect is marvellously accomplished in the dialogues and soliloquies themselves, so it is finally consummated by...
Página 560 - But in the murderer, such a murderer as a poet will condescend to, there must be raging some great storm of passion — jealousy, ambition, vengeance, hatred — which will create a hell within him ; and into this hell we are to look.
Página 27 - He is known by his knock. Your heart telleth you, "That is Mr. ." A rap, between familiarity and respect; that demands, and, at the same time, seems to despair of, entertainment. He entereth smiling and — embarrassed. He holdeth out his hand to you to shake, and — draweth it back again. He casually looketh in about dinner-time — when the table is full.
Página 417 - Vice is a monster of such frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; But seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.