The British review and London critical journal1818 |
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Pàgina 14
... company for an hour . It is the mere cant and common - place of song and sentiment . The calm languor of " sauntering hours " hath not , as he tells us it hath , its morality : " nothing hath less of " morality , " and nothing less ...
... company for an hour . It is the mere cant and common - place of song and sentiment . The calm languor of " sauntering hours " hath not , as he tells us it hath , its morality : " nothing hath less of " morality , " and nothing less ...
Pàgina 37
which he was certain there to hear : desiring to meet with the best company of Athens , and to enjoy an entertainment in which philosophy and grace had equal shares ; and in which , of course , the externals of decency must have been ...
which he was certain there to hear : desiring to meet with the best company of Athens , and to enjoy an entertainment in which philosophy and grace had equal shares ; and in which , of course , the externals of decency must have been ...
Pàgina 155
... company with many distinguished personages of that time , of whom he affords us sometimes a nearer view than we can obtain from any other existing accounts . We must always remember , however , that we are reading only a cursory ...
... company with many distinguished personages of that time , of whom he affords us sometimes a nearer view than we can obtain from any other existing accounts . We must always remember , however , that we are reading only a cursory ...
Pàgina 158
... company we sayl'd as far as the Cape of Savona , a towne built at the rise of the Apenines ; for all this coast ( except a little at St. Remo ) is an high and steepe mountainous ground consisting all of rock marble , without any grasse ...
... company we sayl'd as far as the Cape of Savona , a towne built at the rise of the Apenines ; for all this coast ( except a little at St. Remo ) is an high and steepe mountainous ground consisting all of rock marble , without any grasse ...
Pàgina 161
... companies , or with a strong escort . Glitter , and pomp , and pageantry , are but a miserable compensation for the want of private com- fort and personal security : they are often , indeed , accepted as the evidences of civilization ...
... companies , or with a strong escort . Glitter , and pomp , and pageantry , are but a miserable compensation for the want of private com- fort and personal security : they are often , indeed , accepted as the evidences of civilization ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 212 - From you have I been absent in the spring, When proud-pied April, dress'd in all his trim, Hath put a spirit of youth in every thing, That heavy Saturn laugh'd and leap'd with him.
Pàgina 382 - Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I show the salvation of God.
Pàgina 309 - Father, who wouldest not the death of a sinner but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live...
Pàgina 428 - Parma, the colony or province of Louisiana, with the same extent that it now has in the hands of Spain, and that it had when France possessed it ; and such as it should be after the treaties subsequently entered into between Spain and other States.
Pàgina 22 - Where the car climb'd the Capitol; far and wide Temple and tower went down, nor left a site: Chaos of ruins! who shall trace the void, O'er the dim fragments cast a lunar light, And say, 'here was, or is,
Pàgina 15 - My hopes of being remembered in my line With my land's language. If too fond and far These aspirations in their scope incline — If my fame should be, as my fortunes are, Of hasty growth and blight, and dull Oblivion bar...
Pàgina 20 - Fill'd with the face of heaven, which, from afar, Comes down upon the waters; all its hues, From the rich sunset to the rising star, Their magical variety diffuse: And now they change; a paler shadow strews Its mantle o'er the mountains; parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new color as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till — 'tis gone — and all is gray.
Pàgina 19 - Aside for ever: it may be a sound — A tone of music — summer's eve — or spring — A flower — the wind — the ocean — which shall wound, Striking the electric chain wherewith we are darkly bound...
Pàgina 30 - Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," as a proof that the Coliseum was entire, when seen by the Anglo-Saxon pilgrims at the end of the seventh, or the beginning of the eighth century. A notice on the Coliseum may be seen in the " Historical Illustrations,
Pàgina 371 - And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life ; and this life is in his Son. He that hath the Son, hath life ; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.