The Retrospective Review, Volume 10Charles and Henry Baldwyn, 1824 - Books |
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... look at Salis- bury , or any other Gothic cathedral , and tell us if a spire be not essential to the perfect character of the building . We know that a thousand circumstances may prevent the comple- tion of works of such magnitude and ...
... look at Salis- bury , or any other Gothic cathedral , and tell us if a spire be not essential to the perfect character of the building . We know that a thousand circumstances may prevent the comple- tion of works of such magnitude and ...
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... look for this source but to the East , which , during the Crusades , attracted a portion of the population , and , in a great degree , occupied the attention of the different states of Europe . " The line his Lordship has here traced ...
... look for this source but to the East , which , during the Crusades , attracted a portion of the population , and , in a great degree , occupied the attention of the different states of Europe . " The line his Lordship has here traced ...
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... look into " the dark backward and abysm of time , " see much more of adaptation and taste , than of actual creation . " The body or trunk of the vast massive pillars of the Normans , " says Bentham , " were usually plain cylinders , or ...
... look into " the dark backward and abysm of time , " see much more of adaptation and taste , than of actual creation . " The body or trunk of the vast massive pillars of the Normans , " says Bentham , " were usually plain cylinders , or ...
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... look upon the stars , and by that he seeth set down what order nature hath taken therein . So doth the geometrician and arithmetician , in their divers sorts of quantities . So doth the musician , in tunes tell you which by nature agree ...
... look upon the stars , and by that he seeth set down what order nature hath taken therein . So doth the geometrician and arithmetician , in their divers sorts of quantities . So doth the musician , in tunes tell you which by nature agree ...
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... dull - making cataract of Nilus that you cannot hear the planet - like music of poetry ; if you have so earth - creeping a mind that it cannot lift itself up to look to the sky of poetry , or 54 Sir P. Sidney's Defence of Poesy .
... dull - making cataract of Nilus that you cannot hear the planet - like music of poetry ; if you have so earth - creeping a mind that it cannot lift itself up to look to the sky of poetry , or 54 Sir P. Sidney's Defence of Poesy .
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Page 340 - Ambergris on shore. He cast (of which we rather boast) The Gospel's Pearl upon our Coast. And in these Rocks for us did frame A Temple, where to sound his Name. Oh let our Voice his Praise exalt, Till it arrive at Heaven's Vault : Which thence (perhaps) rebounding may Echo beyond the Mexique Bay.
Page 340 - And sends the fowls to us in care, On daily visits through the air ; He hangs in shades the orange bright, Like golden lamps in a green night...
Page 49 - Now, therein, of all sciences (I speak still of human, and according to the human conceit) is our poet the monarch. For he doth not only show the way, but giveth so sweet a prospect into the way, as will entice any man to enter into it : nay he doth, as if your journey should lie through a fair vineyard, at the very first give you a .cluster of grapes, that full of that taste you may long to pass further.
Page 55 - I will not wish unto you the ass's ears of Midas, nor to be driven by a poet's verses (as Bubonax was) to hang himself, nor to be rhymed to death, as is said to be done in Ireland; yet thus much curse I must send you, in the behalf of all poets, that while you live, you live in love, and never get favour for lacking skill of a Sonnet, and, when you die, your memory die from the earth for want of an Epitaph.
Page 47 - ... the heavenly Maker of that maker, who having made man to His own likeness, set him beyond and over all the works of that second nature ; which in nothing he showeth so much as in poetry ; when, with the force of a divine breath, he bringeth things forth surpassing her doings...
Page 342 - That majesty, which through thy work doth reign, Draws the devout, deterring the profane. And things divine thou treat'st of in such state As them preserves, and thee inviolate. At once delight and horror on us seize, Thou sing'st with so much gravity and ease ; And above human flight dost soar aloft With plume so strong, so equal, and so soft.
Page 56 - I sought fit words to paint the blackest face of woe; Studying inventions fine, her wits to entertain, Oft turning others' leaves to see if thence would flow Some fresh and fruitful showers upon my sun-burned brain.
Page 336 - Unkind to a beast that loveth me! Had it lived long, I do not know Whether it, too, might have done so As Sylvio did; his gifts might be Perhaps as false, or more, than he. But I am sure, for aught that I Could in so short a time espy, Thy love was far more better than The love of false and cruel man.
Page 51 - ... since the Holy Scripture (wherein there is no uncleanness) hath whole parts in it poetical, and that even our Saviour Christ vouchsafed to use the flowers of it ; since all his kinds are not only in their united forms, but in their severed dissections fully commendable ; I think, and think I think rightly, the laurel crown appointed for triumphant captains, doth worthily, of all other learnings, honor the poet's triumph.
Page 335 - But Sylvio soon had me beguiled: This waxed tame, while he grew wild, And quite regardless of my smart, Left me his Fawn, but took his Heart. Thenceforth I set myself to play My solitary time away With this, and very well content Could so mine idle life have spent.