The British Critic: A New Review, Volum 1F. and C. Rivington, 1814 |
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Pàgina 4
... give an efficacy to the preaching of the clergy , which at present it were unreasonable to expect . It cannot be dissembled , that persons who are absolutely un- taught , are the fittest objects , and promise to become the most hopeful ...
... give an efficacy to the preaching of the clergy , which at present it were unreasonable to expect . It cannot be dissembled , that persons who are absolutely un- taught , are the fittest objects , and promise to become the most hopeful ...
Pàgina 18
... give place to the reasonable worship and the happier hopes of a pure religion . It is in India , that monuments are still preserved , the origin of which baffles the boldness even of antiquarian conjecture ; while the admirer of nature ...
... give place to the reasonable worship and the happier hopes of a pure religion . It is in India , that monuments are still preserved , the origin of which baffles the boldness even of antiquarian conjecture ; while the admirer of nature ...
Pàgina 42
... give an air of littleness and trifling , and considerably diminish any ideas of grandeur that might be at- tached to the whole . The transition is happily introduced in the the second canto , where Selim , having closed his 42 Lord ...
... give an air of littleness and trifling , and considerably diminish any ideas of grandeur that might be at- tached to the whole . The transition is happily introduced in the the second canto , where Selim , having closed his 42 Lord ...
Pàgina 46
... give the whole an air of harsh and rugged obscurity . The writer , con- scious of these defects , is not unfrequently forced into the opposite extreme , and by way of balancing accounts with the understanding , is seduced into a flat ...
... give the whole an air of harsh and rugged obscurity . The writer , con- scious of these defects , is not unfrequently forced into the opposite extreme , and by way of balancing accounts with the understanding , is seduced into a flat ...
Pàgina 47
... give a judicious relief to the same- ness of the four - foot measure ; but where either by careless- ness or design it perpetually recurs , the ear is disappointed , the verse seems to have lost its dignity and stability , and what ...
... give a judicious relief to the same- ness of the four - foot measure ; but where either by careless- ness or design it perpetually recurs , the ear is disappointed , the verse seems to have lost its dignity and stability , and what ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 287 - Slow sinks, more lovely ere his race be run, Along Morea's hills the setting sun: Not, as in northern climes, obscurely bright, But one unclouded blaze of living light!
Pàgina 45 - KNOW ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime...
Pàgina 42 - When I say, My bed shall comfort me, My couch shall ease my complaint; Then thou scarest me with dreams, And terrifiest me through visions : So that my soul chooseth strangling, And death rather than my life.
Pàgina 292 - Debased by slavery, or corrupt by power, Who knows thee well must quit thee with disgust, Degraded mass of animated dust ! Thy love is lust, thy friendship all a cheat, Thy smiles hypocrisy, thy words deceit ! By nature vile, ennobled but by name, Each kindred brute might bid thee blush for shame. Ye ! who perchance behold this simple urn, Pass on — it honours none you wish to mourn : To mark a friend's remains these stones arise, I never knew but one, and here he lies.
Pàgina 432 - The Germans in Greek Are sadly to seek ; Not five in five score, But ninety-five more ; All, save only Hermann, And Hermann's a German.
Pàgina 291 - WHEN some proud son of man returns to earth, Unknown to glory, but upheld by birth, The sculptor's art exhausts the pomp of woe, And storied urns record who rest below : When all is done, upon the tomb is seen, Not what he was, but what he should have been...
Pàgina 541 - Gibbon's Decline and fall, vol. vi. p. 320. ODE TO NAPOLEON BUONAPARTE. 1. 1 1s done — but yesterday a King ! And arm'd with Kings to strive — And now thou art a nameless thing So abject — yet alive ! Is this the man of thousand thrones, Who strew'd our Earth with hostile bones ? And can he thus survive ? Since he, miscall'd the Morning Star, Nor man nor fiend hath fallen so far.
Pàgina 291 - Unhonour'd falls, unnoticed all his worth, Denied in heaven the soul he held on earth : While man, vain insect ! hopes to be forgiven, And claims himself a sole exclusive heaven.
Pàgina 42 - When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? And I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.
Pàgina 7 - Works done before the grace of Christ, and the Inspiration of his Spirit, are not pleasant to God, forasmuch as they spring not of faith in Jesus Christ...