The Foreign Quarterly Review, Volume 27Treuttel and Würtz, Treuttel, Jun, and Richter, 1841 - English literature |
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... idea of a work of imagination , than the cast of an ancient statue can stand as a fair representation of its inimitable prototype . To attempt to render the spontaneous inspirations of a poet into another language , is to betray an ...
... idea of a work of imagination , than the cast of an ancient statue can stand as a fair representation of its inimitable prototype . To attempt to render the spontaneous inspirations of a poet into another language , is to betray an ...
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... idea of an absolute standard of beauty . Down to the period of the French revolution the chaste and symmetrical type of Greco - Latin classicism had established its absolute sway over Europe . It was in the days when Racine and Voltaire ...
... idea of an absolute standard of beauty . Down to the period of the French revolution the chaste and symmetrical type of Greco - Latin classicism had established its absolute sway over Europe . It was in the days when Racine and Voltaire ...
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... ideas , are disposed to look upon this superstitious enthusiasm of their southern neighbours as a fresh instance of degeneracy of taste , not unlike the ephemeral hallucination which dazzled the * One of the most successful performances ...
... ideas , are disposed to look upon this superstitious enthusiasm of their southern neighbours as a fresh instance of degeneracy of taste , not unlike the ephemeral hallucination which dazzled the * One of the most successful performances ...
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... ideas of the duties and the influence of poetry , he had exalted notions of the dignity of man , an ardent though a vague and exaggerated love of liberty and of the manly virtues which it is wont to foster . No sooner did the wild ...
... ideas of the duties and the influence of poetry , he had exalted notions of the dignity of man , an ardent though a vague and exaggerated love of liberty and of the manly virtues which it is wont to foster . No sooner did the wild ...
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... ideas that had recently sprung up abroad , Manzoni imitated only as genius can imitate . His faults are peculiar to him , as his beauties are indisputably his own . Between the " Promessi Sposi " and any of the Waverley Novels there is ...
... ideas that had recently sprung up abroad , Manzoni imitated only as genius can imitate . His faults are peculiar to him , as his beauties are indisputably his own . Between the " Promessi Sposi " and any of the Waverley Novels there is ...
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Page 342 - Faith, etc., having undertaken, for the glory of God and advancement of the Christian faith, and honor of our King and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia...
Page 342 - Virginia, do by these presents solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God, and one of another, Covenant and combine ourselves together into a Civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation, and furtherance of the ends aforesaid ; and by virtue hereof, to enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony, unto which we promise all due...
Page 401 - Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes...
Page 242 - And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the Lord shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind...
Page 195 - And he said, BLESSED be the Lord God of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant. God shall enlarge Japheth, And he shall dwell in the tents of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant.
Page 262 - Happy art thou, O Israel : who is like unto thee, O people saved by the Lord, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy excellency ! and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee ; and thou shalt tread upon their high places.
Page 341 - Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river of Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance.
Page 341 - ... I charge you, before God and his blessed angels, that you follow me no farther than you have seen me follow the Lord Jesus Christ. If God reveal anything to you, by any other instrument of his, be as ready to receive it as ever you were to receive any truth by my ministry; for I am verily persuaded the Lord has more truth yet to break forth out of his holy word.
Page 411 - I beheld till the thrones were cast down and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire.
Page 341 - I beseech you remember, it is an article 'of your church covenant, that you be ready to receive whatever truth shall be made known to you from the written word of God.