The British Critic: A New Review, Volume 1F. and C. Rivington, 1814 - English literature |
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... matter , is weakened by every deflecting force . The caprice and the perverseness of great talents will , indeed , obtain for the possessor a short - lived admiration we are apt to wonder by what process they were carried to a point ...
... matter , is weakened by every deflecting force . The caprice and the perverseness of great talents will , indeed , obtain for the possessor a short - lived admiration we are apt to wonder by what process they were carried to a point ...
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... matter of instruction , more especially in the present circumstances of the established Church , for uneducated con- gregations , such as may be supposed to prevail in remote parts of the kingdom . On this subject , it is well known ...
... matter of instruction , more especially in the present circumstances of the established Church , for uneducated con- gregations , such as may be supposed to prevail in remote parts of the kingdom . On this subject , it is well known ...
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... matter of their instruction to the actual condition of their hearers . We are decidedly of opi- nion , and on this point we reluctantly differ from the Bishop in another part of his writings , that the clergy have usually taken the ...
... matter of their instruction to the actual condition of their hearers . We are decidedly of opi- nion , and on this point we reluctantly differ from the Bishop in another part of his writings , that the clergy have usually taken the ...
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... matter of the instruction which is intended for uneducated congregations ; and on this head , not only in the present , but in all circumstances of the established Church , we entirely coincide with the Bishop . We know not of any ...
... matter of the instruction which is intended for uneducated congregations ; and on this head , not only in the present , but in all circumstances of the established Church , we entirely coincide with the Bishop . We know not of any ...
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... matter for speculation in that nice adjustment of jarring interests , by which , the stupendous fabric of our power is kept together with so little of visible constraint . The languages of the East attract the cholar not merely by their ...
... matter for speculation in that nice adjustment of jarring interests , by which , the stupendous fabric of our power is kept together with so little of visible constraint . The languages of the East attract the cholar not merely by their ...
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Page 287 - Slow sinks, more lovely ere his race be run, Along Morea's hills the setting sun: Not, as in northern climes, obscurely bright, But one unclouded blaze of living light!
Page 45 - KNOW ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime...
Page 42 - When I say, My bed shall comfort me, My couch shall ease my complaint; Then thou scarest me with dreams, And terrifiest me through visions : So that my soul chooseth strangling, And death rather than my life.
Page 292 - Debased by slavery, or corrupt by power, Who knows thee well must quit thee with disgust, Degraded mass of animated dust ! Thy love is lust, thy friendship all a cheat, Thy smiles hypocrisy, thy words deceit ! By nature vile, ennobled but by name, Each kindred brute might bid thee blush for shame. Ye ! who perchance behold this simple urn, Pass on — it honours none you wish to mourn : To mark a friend's remains these stones arise, I never knew but one, and here he lies.
Page 432 - The Germans in Greek Are sadly to seek ; Not five in five score, But ninety-five more ; All, save only Hermann, And Hermann's a German.
Page 291 - WHEN some proud son of man returns to earth, Unknown to glory, but upheld by birth, The sculptor's art exhausts the pomp of woe, And storied urns record who rest below : When all is done, upon the tomb is seen, Not what he was, but what he should have been...
Page 541 - Gibbon's Decline and fall, vol. vi. p. 320. ODE TO NAPOLEON BUONAPARTE. 1. 1 1s done — but yesterday a King ! And arm'd with Kings to strive — And now thou art a nameless thing So abject — yet alive ! Is this the man of thousand thrones, Who strew'd our Earth with hostile bones ? And can he thus survive ? Since he, miscall'd the Morning Star, Nor man nor fiend hath fallen so far.
Page 291 - Unhonour'd falls, unnoticed all his worth, Denied in heaven the soul he held on earth : While man, vain insect ! hopes to be forgiven, And claims himself a sole exclusive heaven.
Page 42 - When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? And I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.
Page 7 - Works done before the grace of Christ, and the Inspiration of his Spirit, are not pleasant to God, forasmuch as they spring not of faith in Jesus Christ...