The British Critic, and Quarterly Theological Review, Volume 26F. and C. Rivington, 1805 |
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... thing that can be wished to promife in a young author , a poet of the highest class . From a poet long established we were happy to receive fuch an additional claim upon our admiration as Mr. Bowles's Spirit of Difcovery , with the ...
... thing that can be wished to promife in a young author , a poet of the highest class . From a poet long established we were happy to receive fuch an additional claim upon our admiration as Mr. Bowles's Spirit of Difcovery , with the ...
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... thing in the narrative under review , which is in any degree applicable to private life , is just as much the work of imagination as the memoirs of Cecilia , or of Clarissa Harlow ; and that even the princes of modern Europe are placed ...
... thing in the narrative under review , which is in any degree applicable to private life , is just as much the work of imagination as the memoirs of Cecilia , or of Clarissa Harlow ; and that even the princes of modern Europe are placed ...
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... thing of importance which these volumes contain ; for in perfpicuous and elegant language they exhibit fuch a connected view of the politics and parties of the courts of Auguftus and Tiberius , as will not perhaps elsewhere be rea- dily ...
... thing of importance which these volumes contain ; for in perfpicuous and elegant language they exhibit fuch a connected view of the politics and parties of the courts of Auguftus and Tiberius , as will not perhaps elsewhere be rea- dily ...
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... thing happens as it does , without the poffibility of its being otherwife . This is a doctrine , which we can never allow , because we believe , that the order of events has been at all times dependent on the will of God . We say , that ...
... thing happens as it does , without the poffibility of its being otherwife . This is a doctrine , which we can never allow , because we believe , that the order of events has been at all times dependent on the will of God . We say , that ...
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... thing else than a phyfical caufe ; and fince there is an operating prin- ciple in the caufe , the phyfical caufe is fufficient to produce the phyfical effect . All phyfical effects then must be , and muft have been , produced by ...
... thing else than a phyfical caufe ; and fince there is an operating prin- ciple in the caufe , the phyfical caufe is fufficient to produce the phyfical effect . All phyfical effects then must be , and muft have been , produced by ...
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Page 75 - That yester-morn bloomed waving in the breeze. Sounds the most faint attract the ear, — the hum Of early bee, the trickling of the dew, The distant bleating midway up the hill.
Page 538 - ... willingly subscribed to the Articles established ; which is an argument to us that they all agree in the true, usual, literal meaning of the said Articles ; and that even in those curious points in which the present differences lie, men of all sorts take the Articles of the Church of England to be for them ; which is an argument again that none of them intend any desertion of the Articles established...
Page 155 - In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding chords along: The present scene, the future lot, His toils, his wants, were all forgot: Cold diffidence, and age's frost, In the full tide of song were lost : Each blank, in faithless memory void, The poet's glowing thought supplied ; And, while his harp responsive rung, 'Twas thus the LATEST MINSTREL sung.
Page 156 - Blindfold he knew the paths to cross ; By wily turns, by desperate bounds, Had baffled Percy's best bloodhounds ; In Eske or Liddel fords were none But he would ride them, one by one ; Alike to him was time or tide, December's snow or July's pride ; Alike to him was tide or time, Moonless midnight or matin prime : Steady of heart and stout of hand As ever drove prey from Cumberland ; Five times outlawed had he been By England's king and Scotland's queen.
Page 157 - When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die ; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave» Then go — but go alone the while — Then view St David's ruined pile; And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair I 2.
Page 21 - By pity, well-nigh in amaze my mind Was lost ; and I began : " Bard ! willingly I would address those two together coming, Which seem so light before the wind." He thus : " Note thou, when nearer they to us approach. Then by that love which carries them along, Entreat ; and they will come.
Page 159 - Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child ! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood, Land of my sires ! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand...
Page 616 - ... that a neutral has no right to deliver a belligerent from the pressure of his enemies' hostilities, by trading with his colonies in time of war in a way that was prohibited in time of peace.
Page 553 - I have greater witnefs than that of John : " for the works which the Father hath given me to " finifh, the fame works that I do, bear witnefs of " me, that the Father hath fent me.
Page 538 - That for the present, though some differences have been ill raised, yet we take comfort in this, that all clergymen within our realm have always most willingly subscribed to the Articles established; which is an argument to us that they all agree in the true, usual, literal meaning of the said Articles...