The British Critic: A New Review, Volume 1F. and C. Rivington, 1814 - English literature |
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... respect to religion , and give an efficacy to the preaching of the clergy , which at present it were unreasonable to expect . It cannot be dissembled , that persons who are absolutely un- taught , are the fittest objects , and promise ...
... respect to religion , and give an efficacy to the preaching of the clergy , which at present it were unreasonable to expect . It cannot be dissembled , that persons who are absolutely un- taught , are the fittest objects , and promise ...
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... respect both to light and shade is permanent . It may be darkened in one part by the shadow of the willow , and in another part imme- diately succeeding it may be illuminated by the rays of the sun , but the effect in both cases is ...
... respect both to light and shade is permanent . It may be darkened in one part by the shadow of the willow , and in another part imme- diately succeeding it may be illuminated by the rays of the sun , but the effect in both cases is ...
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... respect his acquirements : we admire his industry : we are convinced that he has a just opinion of the value of academical education , and an ardent zeal to promote its success . We tell him that in some parti- culars he has not done ...
... respect his acquirements : we admire his industry : we are convinced that he has a just opinion of the value of academical education , and an ardent zeal to promote its success . We tell him that in some parti- culars he has not done ...
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... respect , p . 1663 " . text , " Fleas , you know , like lions and tygers , and other bloody- minded beasts , are always most active during the night . " Inven- tory , " Facetious account of a murder , p . 246 : " text , " On their way ...
... respect , p . 1663 " . text , " Fleas , you know , like lions and tygers , and other bloody- minded beasts , are always most active during the night . " Inven- tory , " Facetious account of a murder , p . 246 : " text , " On their way ...
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... respect , because his father was a poulterer , and a very little taste would have prevented the wasting of many words in telling the fate of Mr. Horne's other children . The most compressed form of which speech is capable , would have ...
... respect , because his father was a poulterer , and a very little taste would have prevented the wasting of many words in telling the fate of Mr. Horne's other children . The most compressed form of which speech is capable , would have ...
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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...