The Literary Examiner: Consisting of the Indicator, a Review of Books, and Miscellaneous Pieces in Prose and VerseLeigh Hunt Contains all parts of the 'Literary Examiner'. Originally published as No. 1, Saturday July 5, 1823 - No. 26, Saturday Dec. 27, 1823. |
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... speak of being in contact with my books , I mean it literally . I like to be able to lean my head against them . Living in a southern climate , 1 VOL . I. though in a part sufficiently northern to feel the winter THE ...
... speak of being in contact with my books , I mean it literally . I like to be able to lean my head against them . Living in a southern climate , 1 VOL . I. though in a part sufficiently northern to feel the winter THE ...
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... speaking , the fierce and wrathful Achilles , to the Dux Trojanus , the pious Æneas ? The lofty department of tragedy , what is its essence ? -Masterless passion ; the absence of which , and the poor substitution of mere poetry , make ...
... speaking , the fierce and wrathful Achilles , to the Dux Trojanus , the pious Æneas ? The lofty department of tragedy , what is its essence ? -Masterless passion ; the absence of which , and the poor substitution of mere poetry , make ...
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... of the importance of a man to himself as we ever beheld . Hayley was a gen- tleman and a scholar , but nothing less than a successful author , even at a period when Poetry , generally speaking , with THE LITERARY EXAMINER . 13.
... of the importance of a man to himself as we ever beheld . Hayley was a gen- tleman and a scholar , but nothing less than a successful author , even at a period when Poetry , generally speaking , with THE LITERARY EXAMINER . 13.
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... speaking , with a few honourable ex- ceptions , aimed at little beyond trim classicality ; Humour , to a varia- tion of the sketches of the Spectator and its progeny , ( Fielding and Smollet were past ) with the occasional sauce ...
... speaking , with a few honourable ex- ceptions , aimed at little beyond trim classicality ; Humour , to a varia- tion of the sketches of the Spectator and its progeny , ( Fielding and Smollet were past ) with the occasional sauce ...
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... speaking , the dissimilarity to the model consists in its greater air of candour and bonhommie ; and in the intrusion of inferences , which are less the result of general observation than of personal experience . The first of these ...
... speaking , the dissimilarity to the model consists in its greater air of candour and bonhommie ; and in the intrusion of inferences , which are less the result of general observation than of personal experience . The first of these ...
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Page 307 - Around : the wild fowl nestled in the brake And sedges, brooding in their liquid bed ; The woods sloped downwards to its brink, and stood With their green faces fix'd upon the flood.
Page 27 - He wrote this Polar melody, and set it, Duly accompanied by shrieks and groans, "Which few will sing, I trust, but none forget it — For I will teach, if possible, the stones To rise against Earth's tyrants.
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Page 106 - there was no matter," And proved it — 'twas no matter what he said: They say his system 'tis in vain to batter, Too subtle for the airiest human head; And yet who can believe it? I would shatter Gladly all matters, down to stone or lead, Or adamant, to find the world a spirit, And wear my head, denying that I wear it.
Page 132 - I take my subjects' money, when I want it, without all this formality of parliament?" The bishop of Durham readily answered, "God forbid, Sir, but you should: you are the breath of our nostrils." Whereupon the King turned and said to the bishop of Winchester, "Well, my Lord, what say you?" "Sir," replied the bishop, "I have no skill to judge of parliamentary cases." The King answered, "No put-offs, my Lord; answer me presently.
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