The Edinburgh Review, Volume 19A. and C. Black, 1811 - English literature |
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... Spain , is abundantly clear ; but that a voluntary se- paration from the mother country is best for America may not be equally certain . If a settlement could be made , which should relieve the colonies from oppression , redress their ...
... Spain , is abundantly clear ; but that a voluntary se- paration from the mother country is best for America may not be equally certain . If a settlement could be made , which should relieve the colonies from oppression , redress their ...
Page 166
... Spain sent out to them shoals of Eu- ropeans , ruined in their fortunes , and balked in their prospects , by the convulsions of the mother country , to find a recompense for their losses at home in places and emoluments in America ...
... Spain sent out to them shoals of Eu- ropeans , ruined in their fortunes , and balked in their prospects , by the convulsions of the mother country , to find a recompense for their losses at home in places and emoluments in America ...
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... Spain from foreign usurpation . * Such was the state of the public mind at Caracas , when news arrived of the loss of Seville , and dissolution of the central go- vernment . Those who were afraid of French domination , were seized with ...
... Spain from foreign usurpation . * Such was the state of the public mind at Caracas , when news arrived of the loss of Seville , and dissolution of the central go- vernment . Those who were afraid of French domination , were seized with ...
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... Spain , with such powers and instructions as the old government had been accustomed to trans- mit to its servants . Many of the persons entrusted with these commissions were of doubtful fidelity , and some of them had voluntarily taken ...
... Spain , with such powers and instructions as the old government had been accustomed to trans- mit to its servants . Many of the persons entrusted with these commissions were of doubtful fidelity , and some of them had voluntarily taken ...
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... Spain , had been permitted , by the English government , to return to Caracas , and had there contrived to get himself elect- ed member of congress by one of the most inconsiderable towns of the province . A patriotic club was got ...
... Spain , had been permitted , by the English government , to return to Caracas , and had there contrived to get himself elect- ed member of congress by one of the most inconsiderable towns of the province . A patriotic club was got ...
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Page 427 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd.
Page 428 - tis haunted, holy ground, No earth of thine is lost in vulgar mould, But one vast realm of wonder spreads around, And all the Muse's tales seem truly told, Till the sense aches with gazing to behold The scenes our earliest dreams have dwelt upon: Each hill and dale, each deepening glen and wold Defies the power which crush'd thy temples gone: Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon.
Page 428 - Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild; Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled, And still his...
Page 426 - Ancient of days ! august Athena ! where, Where are thy men of might ? thy grand in soul ? Gone — glimmering through the dream of things that were...
Page 316 - Evil into the mind of God or man May come and go, so unapproved, and leave No spot or blame behind...
Page 438 - Look on its broken arch, its ruin'd wall, Its chambers desolate, and portals foul : Yes, this was once Ambition's airy hall, The dome of Thought, the palace of the Soul...
Page 423 - Restless it rolls, now fix'd, and now anon Flashing afar, — and at his iron feet Destruction cowers to mark what deeds are done; For on this morn three potent nations meet, To shed before his shrine the blood he deems most sweet.
Page 112 - The spirit it is impossible not to admire; but the old Parisian ferocity has broken out in a shocking manner. It is true that this may be no more than a sudden explosion ; if so, no indication can be taken from it ; but if it should be character, rather than accident, then that people are not fit for liberty, and must have a strong hand, like that of their former masters, to coerce them.
Page 427 - But midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, And roam along, the world's tired denizen...
Page 432 - The whisper'd thought of hearts allied, The pressure of the thrilling hand ; The kiss, so guiltless and refined, That Love each warmer wish forbore ; Those eyes proclaim'd so pure a mind, Even passion blush'd to plead for more.