The MiniaturePrinted and sold for the author by C. Knight, 1805 - 368 pages |
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Page 66
... sonnets , long ago condemned and forgotten , so that no theft , from however obsolete and latent a quarter , shall escape the terror of their long- sighted glasses . For the assistance of whom , a certain set of cavillers shall be kept ...
... sonnets , long ago condemned and forgotten , so that no theft , from however obsolete and latent a quarter , shall escape the terror of their long- sighted glasses . For the assistance of whom , a certain set of cavillers shall be kept ...
Page 68
... tenced to the usual death , Critics were ordered to attend the execution . Various others being tried , some , for encroach- ing on a numerous assortment of sonnets to the Sun , Moon , and Stars , claimed common right 68 THE MINIATURE .
... tenced to the usual death , Critics were ordered to attend the execution . Various others being tried , some , for encroach- ing on a numerous assortment of sonnets to the Sun , Moon , and Stars , claimed common right 68 THE MINIATURE .
Page 84
... sonnet , her power is felt , her supremacy acknowledged . It is not however of late years only that fashion has been thus omnipotent ; were we to take a chronological inspection of poetry in general to the most remote ages , we should ...
... sonnet , her power is felt , her supremacy acknowledged . It is not however of late years only that fashion has been thus omnipotent ; were we to take a chronological inspection of poetry in general to the most remote ages , we should ...
Page 85
... sonnet to appear in ; and a triangle the established form of a sacred hymn . At another moment the whim of men led them to exclude particular letters from their poems , and one soaring beyond the rest ; actually wrote , or intended to ...
... sonnet to appear in ; and a triangle the established form of a sacred hymn . At another moment the whim of men led them to exclude particular letters from their poems , and one soaring beyond the rest ; actually wrote , or intended to ...
Page 87
... sonnet , perfectly associate with the reverence due to the christian Jehovah , who is brought to be present at the conclusion . Poetry of a more modern date , assumed a form totally different from any of the preceding vagaries , and ...
... sonnet , perfectly associate with the reverence due to the christian Jehovah , who is brought to be present at the conclusion . Poetry of a more modern date , assumed a form totally different from any of the preceding vagaries , and ...
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Page 360 - And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. 'And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it; for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.
Page 43 - Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
Page 358 - Hast thou given the horse strength? Hast thou clothed his neck with thunder? Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? The glory of his nostrils is terrible. He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength : He goeth on to meet the armed men. He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted, Neither turneth he back from the sword.
Page 305 - Then gay ideas crowd the vacant brain, While peers and dukes, and all their sweeping train, And garters, stars, and coronets appear, And in soft sounds "Your grace
Page 221 - ... a mind full of ideas, will be apt in speaking to hesitate upon the choice of both ; whereas common speakers have only one set of ideas, and one set of words to clothe them in; and these are always ready at the mouth : so people come faster out of a church when it is almost empty, than when a crowd is at the door.
Page 225 - Wouldst thou to honours and preferments climb? Be bold in mischief, dare some mighty crime, Which dungeons, death, or banishment deserves; For virtue is but dryly praised, and starves.
Page 258 - ... it susceptible of lies. He supposes the soul to be of the nature of a piano-cylindrical speculum, or lookingglass ; that the plain side was made by God Almighty, but that the devil afterwards wrought the other side into a cylindrical figure. The plain side represents objects just as they are; and the cylindrical side, by the rules of catoptrics, must needs represent true objects false, and false objects true ; but the cylindrical side being much the larger surface, takes in a greater compass...
Page 73 - I AM the modest young man whom you favoured with your advice, in a late paper ; and, as I am very far from suspecting that you foresaw the numberless...
Page 347 - Ever with some new fancy struck, Tries twenty charms to mend her luck. "This morning, when the parson came, I said I should not win a game. This odious chair, how came I stuck in't?
Page 290 - Ne'er to have peace with wit, nor truce with sense. The king himself the sacred unction made, As king by office, and as priest by trade. In his sinister hand, instead of ball, He placed a mighty mug of potent ale;