The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal, Volume 1Oliver Everett., 1833 - Literature |
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... truth , it is impossible to disguise from ourselves the fact , that when ministers have spoken of the Ballot , it has not been as a boon to the people , but as a punishment to the Tories . A man of ordinary discernment may perceive ...
... truth , it is impossible to disguise from ourselves the fact , that when ministers have spoken of the Ballot , it has not been as a boon to the people , but as a punishment to the Tories . A man of ordinary discernment may perceive ...
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... truths honour ! " If Count Pecchio is not enam- which , as the reviewer in the Quarterly ex - oured of the young ... truth for the Count to swallow ; for , according to him , - " long lamentations and fits of crying " - 66 are never ...
... truths honour ! " If Count Pecchio is not enam- which , as the reviewer in the Quarterly ex - oured of the young ... truth for the Count to swallow ; for , according to him , - " long lamentations and fits of crying " - 66 are never ...
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... truths . perhaps , rather the useful than the new . Half the affectations that disfigure , and are rapidly destroying , the literature of the day , have sprang from the desire to say something new without a regard to its truth . Genius ...
... truths . perhaps , rather the useful than the new . Half the affectations that disfigure , and are rapidly destroying , the literature of the day , have sprang from the desire to say something new without a regard to its truth . Genius ...
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... truth we are not without the support of ment , which we are proud of our privilege high examples . Who can read that great to command . The passions of the soul are poet whom I have just cited , and forget often winged by our capacities ...
... truth we are not without the support of ment , which we are proud of our privilege high examples . Who can read that great to command . The passions of the soul are poet whom I have just cited , and forget often winged by our capacities ...
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... truth ! Unsatisfied thy soul shall rove , And warm with fancy's fickle glow ; Now soar ambitiously above- Now , passion - fettered , sink below . And thou shalt waste thy life in sighs , Unfit to serve or to command , With hopes that ...
... truth ! Unsatisfied thy soul shall rove , And warm with fancy's fickle glow ; Now soar ambitiously above- Now , passion - fettered , sink below . And thou shalt waste thy life in sighs , Unfit to serve or to command , With hopes that ...
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Page 244 - For dignity composed and high exploit: But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels...
Page 43 - ... Tis nearly twelve o'clock. Shake hands, before you die. Old year, we'll dearly rue for you : What is it we can do for you ? Speak out before you die. His face is growing sharp and thin. Alack! our friend is gone. Close up his eyes: tie up his chin: Step from the corpse, and let him in. That standeth there alone, And waiteth at the door. There's a new foot on the floor, my friend, And a new face at the door, my friend, A new face at the door.
Page 407 - Swinging slow with sullen roar; Or if the air will not permit, Some still removed place will fit, Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom...
Page 31 - But al be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre...
Page 43 - em away. Old year, you must not go ; So long as you have been with us, Such joy as you have seen with us, Old year, you shall not go.
Page 398 - Tis left to fly or fall alone. With wounded wing, or bleeding breast, Ah ! where shall either victim rest ? Can this with faded pinion soar From rose to tulip as before? Or Beauty, blighted in an hour, Find joy within her broken bower...
Page 190 - Seggendo in piuma, In fama non si vien, ne sotto coltre, Senza la qual chi sua vita consuma, Cotal vestigio in terra di se lascia \. Qual fummo in aere, ed in acqua la schiuma.
Page 17 - Whilst I study to find how I am a microcosm, or little world, I find myself something more than the great. There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun. Nature tells me I am the image of God, as well as Scripture. He that understands not thus much hath not his introduction, or first lesson, and is yet to begin the alphabet of man.
Page 17 - The earth is a point not only in respect of the heavens above us, but of that heavenly and celestial part within us. That mass of flesh that circumscribes me, limits not my mind. That surface that tells the heavens it hath an end, cannot persuade me I have any.
Page 381 - 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, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishea of the sea ; into your hand are they delivered.