The Quarterly Review, Volume 5William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1811 - English literature |
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... conducted , differ as widely as possible ; and if they had not both been called epic poets , scarcely another point of resem- blance would be found between them . Virgil , it is true , has followed Homer more closely , reducing however ...
... conducted , differ as widely as possible ; and if they had not both been called epic poets , scarcely another point of resem- blance would be found between them . Virgil , it is true , has followed Homer more closely , reducing however ...
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... conduct of the story , instead of requiring him to emulate their spirit upon a theme adapted to his own times , studies , and peculiar bent of genius . We have been unavoidably led into this general line of reflec- tion , by the volume ...
... conduct of the story , instead of requiring him to emulate their spirit upon a theme adapted to his own times , studies , and peculiar bent of genius . We have been unavoidably led into this general line of reflec- tion , by the volume ...
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... conduct of the work will naturally be expected from us . In this Mr. Southey had to struggle with two great difficulties . The poem being entirely mythological , and the agents , generally speaking , having little in common with ...
... conduct of the work will naturally be expected from us . In this Mr. Southey had to struggle with two great difficulties . The poem being entirely mythological , and the agents , generally speaking , having little in common with ...
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... conducting a war purely and systematically defensive . In the ope- rations of an individual campaign , such a mode of warfare may be prudent and advantageous ; but it appears to us that the adoption of it , as a fixed principle , would ...
... conducting a war purely and systematically defensive . In the ope- rations of an individual campaign , such a mode of warfare may be prudent and advantageous ; but it appears to us that the adoption of it , as a fixed principle , would ...
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... conduct of Russia in the war of 1809 ; but she will recollect that the hostilities of that power were languid and evidently reluctant ; and although at the peace of Vienna she was compelled to aban- don don a portion of her Polish ...
... conduct of Russia in the war of 1809 ; but she will recollect that the hostilities of that power were languid and evidently reluctant ; and although at the peace of Vienna she was compelled to aban- don don a portion of her Polish ...
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Page 118 - And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people.
Page 469 - Upon the top of all his loftie crest, A bunch of haires discolourd diversly, With sprincled pearle, and gold full richly drest, Did shake, and seemd to daunce for jollity; Like to an almond tree ymounted hye On top of greene Selinis all alone, With blossoms brave bedecked daintily; Whose tender locks do tremble every one At every little breath, that under heaven is blowne.
Page 398 - ... of life; either without books, or, like some of the Mahometan countries, with very few: men thus busied and unlearned, having only such words as common use requires, would perhaps long continue to express the same notions by the same signs.
Page 433 - We shall exult, if they who rule the land Be men who hold its many blessings dear, "Wise, upright, valiant; not a servile band, Who are to judge of danger which they fear, And honour which they do not understand.
Page 46 - ... thee, But Earth which is mine, Its fruits shall deny thee ; And Water shall hear me, And know thee and fly thee ; And the Winds shall not touch thee When they pass by thee, And the Dews shall not wet thee, When they fall nigh thee : And thou shalt seek Death To release thee, in vain ; Thou shalt live in thy pain, While Kehama shall reign, With a fire in thy heart, And a fire in thy brain ; And sleep shall obey me, And visit thee never, And the curse shall be on thee For ever and ever.
Page 45 - Quench'd in the unnatural light which might out-stare Even the broad eye of day ; And thou from thy celestial way Pourest, O Moon, an ineffectual ray ! For lo ! ten thousand torches flame and flare Upon the midnight air, Blotting the lights of heaven With one portentous glare. Behold the fragrant smoke in many a fold Ascending, floats along the fiery sky, And hangeth visible on high, A dark and waving canopy.
Page 470 - SIR, knowing how doubtfully all allegories may be construed, and this booke of mine, which I have entituled the Faery Queene, being a continued allegory, or darke conceit...
Page 476 - While gay saloons appeared on either side In splendid vista opening to her sight; And all with precious gems so beautified, And furnished with such exquisite delight, That scarce the beams of heaven emit such lustre bright. The amethyst was there of violet hue, And there the topaz shed its golden ray, The chrysoberyl, and the sapphire blue As the clear azure of a sunny day, Or the mild eyes where amorous glances play; The...
Page 480 - O'er which were shadowy cast Elysian gleams, That played in waving lights from place to place, And shed a roseate smile on nature's face.
Page 54 - He loved fairies, genii, giants, and monsters; he delighted to rove through the meanders of enchantment, to gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces, to repose by the waterfalls of Elysian gardens.