New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 5Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth Henry Colburn, 1822 |
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... imagination into the feelings which he undertook to delineate , but that gradually the im- pression passed away , and that when he appeared to be rapt in the very ecstasy of passion , he was in reality quite insensible and calm . To ...
... imagination into the feelings which he undertook to delineate , but that gradually the im- pression passed away , and that when he appeared to be rapt in the very ecstasy of passion , he was in reality quite insensible and calm . To ...
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... imagination of his prosecutor . The accused seemed quite regardless of the evidence which was brought forward to substantiate the two first charges ; but he applied himself with great earnestness to the last , vehemently de- nying the ...
... imagination of his prosecutor . The accused seemed quite regardless of the evidence which was brought forward to substantiate the two first charges ; but he applied himself with great earnestness to the last , vehemently de- nying the ...
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... imagination been less depraved and his taste more pure , his genius was certainly far beyond that of any of the Greek anthologists , with perhaps the exception of Meleager . Martial has been placed at the head of this class of writers ...
... imagination been less depraved and his taste more pure , his genius was certainly far beyond that of any of the Greek anthologists , with perhaps the exception of Meleager . Martial has been placed at the head of this class of writers ...
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... imaginations of all classes of readers , learned or un- learned , gentle or simple , young or old , have necessarily formed for themselves such a chain of associations connected with Scripture stories , characters , and events , that to ...
... imaginations of all classes of readers , learned or un- learned , gentle or simple , young or old , have necessarily formed for themselves such a chain of associations connected with Scripture stories , characters , and events , that to ...
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... imagination , to respite itself from the too bitter contemplation of bare realities . As I have set myself the task of looking fearlessly into the past , my thoughts must be permitted to indulge themselves in mingling with it under any ...
... imagination , to respite itself from the too bitter contemplation of bare realities . As I have set myself the task of looking fearlessly into the past , my thoughts must be permitted to indulge themselves in mingling with it under any ...
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Page 137 - Though in their souls, which thus each other thwarted, Love was the very root of the fond rage Which blighted their life's bloom, and then departed: Itself expired, but leaving them an age Of years all winters, — war within themselves to wage.
Page 162 - A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses.
Page 38 - Lie heavy on him, earth, for he Laid many a heavy load on thee.
Page 163 - O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?
Page 434 - A strange fish! Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian. Legg'd like a man! and his fins like arms! Warm, o
Page 540 - She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek. She pined in thought And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat, like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief.
Page 122 - The days are now long enough to walk in the Park after dinner; and so I do whenever it is fair. This walking is a strange remedy; Mr. Prior walks to make himself fat, and I to bring myself down ; he has generally a cough, which he only calls a cold : we often walk round the Park together.
Page 199 - oh ! gallant stranger, For hapless ADELGITHA'S love. " For he is in a foreign far land Whose arm should 'now have set me free ; And I must wear the willow garland For him that's dead, or false to me.
Page 251 - DE toutes les habitations où j'ai demeuré ( et jen ai eu de charmantes), aucune ne m'a rendu si véritablement heureux , et ne m'a laissé de si tendres regrets, que l'île de Saint-Pierre, au milieu du lac de Bienne.
Page 276 - Successive crys the seasons' change declare, And mark the monthly progress of the year. Hark, how the streets with treble voices ring, To sell the bounteous product of the spring!