Monthly Review; Or Literary Journal Enlarged, Volume 107R. Griffiths., 1825 Editors: May 1749-Sept. 1803, Ralph Griffiths; Oct. 1803-Apr. 1825, G. E. Griffiths. |
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... friendship and connection : but the inverse , that a difference of political thinking is to call down the bitterest invectives upon the head of either of the parties , who may think differently upon subjects that have always divided ...
... friendship and connection : but the inverse , that a difference of political thinking is to call down the bitterest invectives upon the head of either of the parties , who may think differently upon subjects that have always divided ...
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... friend to legiti- macy , unless legitimacy be , as Mr. Hazlitt , with Hibernian precision , defines it , lawless power and savage bigotry . " Who , let us ask , would ever dream of making political pro- selytes by means of such fictions ...
... friend to legiti- macy , unless legitimacy be , as Mr. Hazlitt , with Hibernian precision , defines it , lawless power and savage bigotry . " Who , let us ask , would ever dream of making political pro- selytes by means of such fictions ...
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... friends , the finished gentleman of the last age . His manners were as fascinating as his conversation was spirited and delightful . He put one in mind of the burden of the song of " The King's Old Courtier , and an Old Courtier of the ...
... friends , the finished gentleman of the last age . His manners were as fascinating as his conversation was spirited and delightful . He put one in mind of the burden of the song of " The King's Old Courtier , and an Old Courtier of the ...
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... friend and veteran poli tician seated at his elbow ; to hear him recal the time of Wilkes and Liberty , the conversation mellowing like the wine with the smack of age ; assenting to all the old man said , bringing out his pleasant ...
... friend and veteran poli tician seated at his elbow ; to hear him recal the time of Wilkes and Liberty , the conversation mellowing like the wine with the smack of age ; assenting to all the old man said , bringing out his pleasant ...
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... friends ! Certainly some of his portraits are fix- tures , and will do to hang up as lasting and lively emblems of human infirmity . Then there is no one who has so sure an ear for " the chimes at midnight , " not even excepting Mr ...
... friends ! Certainly some of his portraits are fix- tures , and will do to hang up as lasting and lively emblems of human infirmity . Then there is no one who has so sure an ear for " the chimes at midnight , " not even excepting Mr ...
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Page 7 - some, and trampling on the early grave of others — ' " Who would not grieve if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?" But we believe there is no other age or country of the world (but ours) in which such genius could have been so degraded!
Page 457 - breakers — they to me Were a delight; and if the freshening sea Made them a terror — 'twas a pleasing fear; For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near,
Page 385 - Singing he was or floyting all the day, He was as fresh as is the month of May. He could songs make, and well endite, Just and eke dance, and well pourtraie and write; So hole he loved, that by nighterdale (night-time) He slept no more than doth the nightingale." ' Martial exercises were blended with his anxieties of
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Page 456 - Yet, Italy ! through every other land Thy wrongs should ring, and shall from side to side ; Mother of arts ! as once of arms ; thy hand Was then our guardian, and is still our guide ; Parent of our religion ! whom the wide Nations have knelt to for the keys of heaven
Page 227 - into the pit, and there saw the play, which is pretty good.'— ' May 1st, 1667. To Westminster; in the way meeting many milk-maids with their garlands upon their pails, dancing with a fiddler before them ; and saw pretty Nelly standing at her lodgings' door in Drury-Lane in her smock sleeves and
Page 28 - a fund appropriated for the education of the Indian youth; and that if the red chiefs would send some of their children to that place, they should be well provided for, and. instructed in all the learning of the whites. One of the Indian orators answered by expressing the deep sense entertained of the kindness of this
Page 6 - Narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind —" who, -from the height of his genius looking abroad into nature, and
Page 63 - Man, considered in himself, is a very helpless, and a very wretched being. He is subject every moment to the greatest calamities and misfortunes. He is beset with dangers on all sides, and may become unhappy by numberless casualties which he could not foresee, nor have prevented, had he foreseen them.
Page 287 - utter darkness, and their portion set As far removed from God and light of heaven, , , . As from the center thrice to th' utmost pole. Paradise Lost, i. 70. Again :