Monthly Review; Or Literary Journal EnlargedRalph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths R. Griffiths., 1822 Editors: May 1749-Sept. 1803, Ralph Griffiths; Oct. 1803-Apr. 1825, G. E. Griffiths. |
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... mind and his style have been so marked and pervading , that , while his readers have been very numerous , he himself has perhaps been well understood by most of them . Not trusting to these sources and this pro- bability , however , we ...
... mind and his style have been so marked and pervading , that , while his readers have been very numerous , he himself has perhaps been well understood by most of them . Not trusting to these sources and this pro- bability , however , we ...
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... mind con- stantly alive to passing occurrences , and a bustling and ardent spirit , he united the frame of a valetudinarian , and a refined and fastidious taste . The restlessness of his temper , however , and those irregular sallies of ...
... mind con- stantly alive to passing occurrences , and a bustling and ardent spirit , he united the frame of a valetudinarian , and a refined and fastidious taste . The restlessness of his temper , however , and those irregular sallies of ...
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... mind as a man whose thirst of glory was inconsistent with humanity ; and being himself strongly tinctured with tenderness , he avoided any fur- ther intercourse with a minister , who was Great with so little reluctance . } - Thus ...
... mind as a man whose thirst of glory was inconsistent with humanity ; and being himself strongly tinctured with tenderness , he avoided any fur- ther intercourse with a minister , who was Great with so little reluctance . } - Thus ...
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... mind , and nothing of a poet but absence of meaning : yet he was far from wanting parts : spoke well when he had studied his speeches ; and loved to reward and promote merit in others . His political apostacy was as flagrant as Pitt's ...
... mind , and nothing of a poet but absence of meaning : yet he was far from wanting parts : spoke well when he had studied his speeches ; and loved to reward and promote merit in others . His political apostacy was as flagrant as Pitt's ...
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... most disagreeable impression on the mind ; and the varying hues of that camelion , Insincerity , distract and weary the attention . The * The lighter anecdotes and jokes interspersed through these Memoirs 10 Lord Orford's Memoirs of the.
... most disagreeable impression on the mind ; and the varying hues of that camelion , Insincerity , distract and weary the attention . The * The lighter anecdotes and jokes interspersed through these Memoirs 10 Lord Orford's Memoirs of the.
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Page 353 - may, perhaps, be thus supplied : ' ACHILLES' WRATH, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumbered, heavenly goddess, sing ! That wrath, which hurl'd to Pluto's gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain, Whose limbs unburied on the naked shore Devouring dogs and hungry vultures tore : YET, wrought TH
Page 467 - The greatest improvement in the productive powers of labor, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment with which it is any where directed or applied, seem to have been the effects of the division of labor.
Page 94 - Now spring returns, but not to me returns The vernal joy my better years have known ; Dim in my breast life's dying taper burns, And all the joys of life with health are flown: ' Starting and shiv'ring in th' inconstant wind, Meagre and pale, the ghost
Page 94 - in their course arrest; Whose flight shall shortly count me with the dead, And lay me down in peace with them that rest. * Oft morning dreams presage approaching fate, And morning dreams, as poets tell, are true: Led by pale ghosts, 1 enter death's dark gate, And bid the realms of light and life adieu
Page 400 - Argues, I think, a sweet and generous nature, to have this strong relish for the beauties of vegetation, and this friendship for the hardy and glorious sons of the forest. There is a grandeur of thought connected with this part of rural economy. It is, if
Page 117 - and from arms to liberty. Spirit of Swift! spirit of Molyneux ! your genius has prevailed ! Ireland is now a nation ! in that new character I hail her! and bowing to her august presence, I say, Esto perpetua
Page 94 - 1 enter death's dark gate, And bid the realms of light and life adieu ! < Farewell, ye blooming fields ! ye cheerful plains ! Enough for me the churchyard's lonely mound, Where melancholy with still silence reigns, And the rank grass waves o'er the cheerless ground; * There let me wander at the
Page 246 - needful; but I think I need not. I was arbitrary in power, having the armies in the three nations under my command; and truly not very ill-beloved by them, nor very ill-beloved then by the people, by the good people ; and I believe I should have been more,
Page 242 - Zounds, T am afraid of this gun-powder Percy, though he be dead; how if he should counterfeit too, and rise ? I am afraid he would prove the better counterfeit."—
Page 94 - Farewell, ye blooming fields ! ye cheerful plains ! Enough for me the churchyard's lonely mound, Where melancholy with still silence reigns, And the rank grass waves o'er the cheerless ground; * There let me wander at the close of eve, When sleep sits dewy on the labourer's eyes, The world and all its busy follies leave, And talk with wisdom where my Daphnis lies.