New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 1Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth Henry Colburn, 1821 |
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... less intellectual that it shews itself in no formal process of reasoning , but operates like a spirit rather felt than seen , in giving congruity to the shapes of his fancy . Owing to the subtle manner in which Poetry teaches us truth ...
... less intellectual that it shews itself in no formal process of reasoning , but operates like a spirit rather felt than seen , in giving congruity to the shapes of his fancy . Owing to the subtle manner in which Poetry teaches us truth ...
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... less interesting than those of the Muse . And if verse can strengthen our retention of a dry and dreary muster - roll of words , how much more delightfully im- portant must it be in fixing the fleetest and sweetest traits of imagination ...
... less interesting than those of the Muse . And if verse can strengthen our retention of a dry and dreary muster - roll of words , how much more delightfully im- portant must it be in fixing the fleetest and sweetest traits of imagination ...
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... less sustained elevation of the fancy , and stoops designedly from pathos and sublimity to views of life , which may refresh and amuse us , but are not poetry . Again , if prose has ever rivalled verse in ideal fiction , it is in the ...
... less sustained elevation of the fancy , and stoops designedly from pathos and sublimity to views of life , which may refresh and amuse us , but are not poetry . Again , if prose has ever rivalled verse in ideal fiction , it is in the ...
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... less scorching , of more or less duration ; each of them , however , even the shortest , exceeds the time that a man can hold his breath . This wind consists in a succession of burning and cool gusts . In the first , there is frequently ...
... less scorching , of more or less duration ; each of them , however , even the shortest , exceeds the time that a man can hold his breath . This wind consists in a succession of burning and cool gusts . In the first , there is frequently ...
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... less than his income , he accumulates capital , and interest falls . With the fall of interest , a fall in the price of goods takes place , and consumption is promoted . If he spends his full income , in the course of nature he will ...
... less than his income , he accumulates capital , and interest falls . With the fall of interest , a fall in the price of goods takes place , and consumption is promoted . If he spends his full income , in the course of nature he will ...
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Page 583 - Morning Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip, and the pale primrose. Hail bounteous May that dost inspire Mirth and youth, and warm desire; Woods and groves are of thy dressing, Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing. Thus we salute thee with our early song, And welcome thee, and wish thee long.
Page 160 - T^EAR no more the heat o' the sun -*- Nor the furious winter's rages; Thou thy worldly task hast done, Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages : Golden lads and girls all must, As chimney-sweepers, come to dust. Fear no more the frown o...
Page 264 - Will I upon thy party wear this rose: And here I prophesy, — This brawl to-day, Grown to this faction, in the Temple garden, Shall send, between the red rose and the white, A thousand souls to death and deadly night.
Page 643 - at the Mount of St Mary's, in the stony stage where I now stand, I have brought you some fine biscuits, baked in the oven of charity, carefully conserved for the chickens of the church, the sparrows of the spirit, and the sweet swallows of salvation.
Page 466 - Merciful heaven! What, man! ne'er pull your hat upon your brows; Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break.
Page 16 - And yet, fair bow, no fabling dreams, But words of the Most High, Have told why first thy robe of beams Was woven in the sky.
Page 629 - Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being. Such are those thick and gloomy shadows damp, Oft seen in charnel vaults and sepulchres, Lingering and sitting by a new-made grave, As loth to leave the body that it loved, And linked itself by carnal sensuality To a degenerate and degraded state.
Page 518 - With mazy error under pendent shades Ran nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice Art In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon Poured forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain...
Page 614 - Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her Works gave signs of woe, That all was lost.
Page 330 - ... earth which will be allotted to each of these classes, under the names of rent, profit, and wages...