The Analectic Magazine...: Comprising Original Reviews, Biography, Analytical Abstracts of New Publications, Volume 14Published and sold by Moses Thomas, 1819 |
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Page 112
... volumes is , indeed , that one into which we expected the essayist to fall ; it is too poetical . In the very first paragraph we are astounded by a simile , and obliged to look about us before we could determine whether it was to the ...
... volumes is , indeed , that one into which we expected the essayist to fall ; it is too poetical . In the very first paragraph we are astounded by a simile , and obliged to look about us before we could determine whether it was to the ...
Page 117
... volumes of this work are occupied by critical notices and specimens ; -we shall endeavour to glean a few par- ticulars from the former , but to extract from extracts would be only to pour water on a dilution . James I. of Scotland , was ...
... volumes of this work are occupied by critical notices and specimens ; -we shall endeavour to glean a few par- ticulars from the former , but to extract from extracts would be only to pour water on a dilution . James I. of Scotland , was ...
Page 119
... volumes , Moore , who superintended the publication , realized this jocular fiction by his own death , while the last num- ber was in the press . Much as we have protested against poetical extracts , on the pre- sent occasion we cannot ...
... volumes , Moore , who superintended the publication , realized this jocular fiction by his own death , while the last num- ber was in the press . Much as we have protested against poetical extracts , on the pre- sent occasion we cannot ...
Page 123
... volumes concerning whom we only wonder how the d - 1 they got there . ' Amhurst Selden to wit : from whose dull verses it is inconceivable how Mr. Campbell could have the patience to quote nearly forty pages . Some few ( but in justice ...
... volumes concerning whom we only wonder how the d - 1 they got there . ' Amhurst Selden to wit : from whose dull verses it is inconceivable how Mr. Campbell could have the patience to quote nearly forty pages . Some few ( but in justice ...
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... volume , with a motto - let us alone - would exhibit as great a blunder as to prefix a motto from the Bible to Hoyle on Whist , or one from Barclay's Apology to a military dictionary . I shall not enter into the detail of these acts ...
... volume , with a motto - let us alone - would exhibit as great a blunder as to prefix a motto from the Bible to Hoyle on Whist , or one from Barclay's Apology to a military dictionary . I shall not enter into the detail of these acts ...
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Page 117 - Farewell the tranquil mind ! Farewell content ! Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars, That make ambition virtue ! O, farewell ! Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner ; and all quality. Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war ! And O, you mortal engines, whose rude throats The immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit, Farewell ! Othello's occupation's gone ! lago.
Page 203 - That we do hereby declare ourselves a free and independent people, are and of right ought to be a sovereign and selfgoverning association under the control of no power other than that of our God and the General Government of the Congress to the maintenance of which independence we solemnly pledge to each other our mutual co-operation our lives our fortunes and our most sacred honor.
Page 343 - All that he had ever heard - all that he had ever read - when compared with it dwindled into nothing, and vanished like vapour before the sun.
Page 160 - The roar of the sea had long announced their approach to the cliffs, on the summit of which, like the nest of some seaeagle, the founder of the fortalice had perched his eyry. The pale moon, which had hitherto been contending with flitting clouds, now shone out, and gave them a view of the solitary and naked tower, situated on a projecting cliff that beetled on the German Ocean. On three sides the rock was precipitous ; on the fourth, which was that...
Page 447 - Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air...
Page 241 - Oh Venice! Venice! when thy marble walls Are level with the waters, there shall be A cry of nations o'er thy sunken halls, A loud lament along the sweeping sea!
Page 303 - Prologue will show, was composed under a belief that the Imagination not only does not require for its exercise the intervention of supernatural agency, but that, though such agency be excluded, the faculty may be called forth as imperiously, and for kindred results of pleasure, by incidents, within the compass of poetic probability, in the humblest departments of daily life.
Page 307 - Is it a party in a parlour, Crammed just as they on earth were crammed, Some sipping punch — some sipping tea, But, as you by their faces see, All silent, and all damned ! Peter Bell, by W.
Page 478 - I thank God, there are no free schools, nor printing, and I hope we shall not have, these hundred years ; for learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best of government. God keep us from both...
Page 180 - At this moment I also saw a continuity of ice at the distance of seven miles, extending from one- side of the bay to the other, between the nearest cape to the north, which I named after Sir George Warrender, and that to the south, which was named after Viscount Castlereagh.