Museum of Foreign Literature and Science, Volume 14

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Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith
E. Littell, 1829

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Page 261 - effect by their contrast to the ordinary course of business. " Therefore are feasts so solemn and so rare, Since seldom coming, in the long year set, Like stones of worth they thinly placed are, Or captain jewels in the carcanet."* But still the objection of Hume remains unimpeached as to the fact, that eloquence is a
Page 267 - Such are their ideas ; such their religion ; and such their law. But as to our country and our race, as long as the well-compacted structure of our church and state, the sanctuary, the holy of holies of that ancient law, defended by reverence, defended by power, a fortress at once and a temple (Templum
Page 408 - the sea :—' And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, behold there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea like a man's hand.
Page 267 - on the brow of the British Sion ;—as long as the British monarchy, not more limited than fenced by the orders of the state, shall, like the proud keep of Windsor, rising in the majesty of proportion, and girt with the double belt of
Page 195 - we go to work, we must ring for candles." "Yes," said Aunt Margaret, who is a wellread woman, " to those who resemble the translator of Tasso, ' Prevailing poet, whose undoubting mind Believed the magic wonders which he sung.' It is not required for this purpose, that
Page 381 - passage of our magnificent ritual; " О Father, raise us from the death of sin unto the life of righteousness, that when we shall depart this lite we may rest in
Page 269 - place contentedly, where nature bad assigned it, as one of the ornamental performers of the time ! His station was with the lilies of the field, which toil not, neither do they spin. He should have thrown himself upon the admiring sympathies of the world as the most dazzling
Page 272 - (and none that is not,) is always called whether good or bad, a poem, by all who have no favourite hypothesis to maintain." And the inference manifestly is, that it is rightly so called. Now, if a man has taken up any fixed opinion on the subject, no matter whether wrong or right, and
Page 296 - part of the play:— I had a brother once, a gracious boy, Full of all gentleness, of calmest hope,— Of sweet and quiet joy—there was the look Of heaven upon his face which limners give To the beloved disciple. How I loved That gracious boy ! Younger by fifteen year«, Brother at once and son ! He left my side; A summer bloom on his
Page 265 - the reputation of a blockhead with all eminent blockheads, and of a man of talents with those who were themselves truly such. " When I was very young," says Burke, " a general fashion told me I was to admire some of the writings against that minister; a little more maturity taught me as much to despise them.

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