Curiosities of Literature, Volume 3E. Moxon, 1834 - English literature |
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... considered as a favour to be permitted to stand in their presence . This custom prevails in despotic countries : a despot cannot suffer without dis- gust the elevated figure of his subjects ; he is pleased to bend their bodies with ...
... considered as a favour to be permitted to stand in their presence . This custom prevails in despotic countries : a despot cannot suffer without dis- gust the elevated figure of his subjects ; he is pleased to bend their bodies with ...
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... considered as holy and eternal , and were carried at the head of their armies on little altars of silver , in the midst of the magi who accompanied them and sang their hymns . Fire was also a symbol of majesty amongst the Romans ; and ...
... considered as holy and eternal , and were carried at the head of their armies on little altars of silver , in the midst of the magi who accompanied them and sang their hymns . Fire was also a symbol of majesty amongst the Romans ; and ...
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... considered as the best adapted to its purpose . ANECDOTES OF EUROPEAN MANNERS . THE following circumstances probably gave rise to the tyranny of the feudal power , and are the facts on which the fictions of romance are raised . Castles ...
... considered as the best adapted to its purpose . ANECDOTES OF EUROPEAN MANNERS . THE following circumstances probably gave rise to the tyranny of the feudal power , and are the facts on which the fictions of romance are raised . Castles ...
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... considered as the great instru- ments of a sublime pathos ; and the " Die all " and " Die nobly " of the exquisite and affecting tragedy of Fielding were frequently realised in our popular dramas . Thomas Goff , of the university of ...
... considered as the great instru- ments of a sublime pathos ; and the " Die all " and " Die nobly " of the exquisite and affecting tragedy of Fielding were frequently realised in our popular dramas . Thomas Goff , of the university of ...
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... considered as no contemptible tragic poet he concludes the first part of his courageous Turk , by promising a second , thus : If this first part , gentles ! do like you well , The second part shall greater murthers tell . Specimens of ...
... considered as no contemptible tragic poet he concludes the first part of his courageous Turk , by promising a second , thus : If this first part , gentles ! do like you well , The second part shall greater murthers tell . Specimens of ...
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Page 148 - Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear : Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village- Hampden, that, with dauntless breast, The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Th...
Page 164 - Under an oak, whose antique root peeps out Upon the brook that brawls along this wood : To the which place a poor ^sequester'd stag, That from the hunter's aim had ta'en a hurt...
Page 144 - Far, far aloof th' affrighted ravens sail ; The famish'd eagle screams, and passes by. Dear lost companions of my tuneful art, Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes, Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart, Ye died amidst your dying country's cries — No more I weep.
Page 262 - My prime of youth is but a frost of cares; My feast of joy is but a dish of pain; My crop of corn is but a field of tares; And all my good is but vain hope of gain; The day is fled, and yet I saw no sun; And now I live, and now my life is done!
Page 155 - The birds their quire apply ; airs, vernal airs, Breathing the smell of field and grove, attune The trembling leaves, while universal Pan, Knit with the Graces and the Hours in dance, Led on the eternal Spring.
Page 154 - Though poverty's cold wind, and crushing rain, Beat keen, and heavy on thy tender years.' Oh, let me now, into a richer soil, Transplant thee safe ! where vernal suns and showers, Diffuse their warmest, largest influence : And of my garden be the pride, and joy...
Page 150 - Oh ! had he been content to serve the crown With virtues only proper to the gown, Or had the rankness of the soil been freed From cockle that oppressed the noble seed, David for him his tuneful harp had strung And Heaven had wanted one immortal song.
Page 159 - ... human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from Infinite to thee, From thee to nothing. On superior...
Page 147 - There has of late arisen a practice of giving to adjectives, derived from substantives, the termination of participles ; such as the cultured plain, the daisied bank ; but I was sorry to see, in the lines of a scholar like Gray, the honied spring.
Page 164 - With his loll'd tongue he faintly licks his prey ; His warm breath blows her flix up as she lies ; She, trembling, creeps upon the ground away, And looks back to him with beseeching eyes.