The Retrospective Review, 第 1 巻Charles and Henry Baldwyn, 1820 |
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... whole nation , employing nearly all its leisure hours from the highest to the lowest rank in reading - we have been truly called a READING PUBLIC . The lively Greeks were not a reading nation - they were a hearing and a talking people ...
... whole nation , employing nearly all its leisure hours from the highest to the lowest rank in reading - we have been truly called a READING PUBLIC . The lively Greeks were not a reading nation - they were a hearing and a talking people ...
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... whole extent of modern literature . Criticism , which when able and just , is always pleasing , we shall combine with copious and characteristic extracts , analyses , and biographical ac- counts , so as in some measure to supply the ...
... whole extent of modern literature . Criticism , which when able and just , is always pleasing , we shall combine with copious and characteristic extracts , analyses , and biographical ac- counts , so as in some measure to supply the ...
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... notice . Some whose names have been bruited abroad , but whose qualities have been mistaken or mis- understood — some who though not pleasing in the - whole , and undesirable as inmates and partners of the X INTRODUCTION .
... notice . Some whose names have been bruited abroad , but whose qualities have been mistaken or mis- understood — some who though not pleasing in the - whole , and undesirable as inmates and partners of the X INTRODUCTION .
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whole , and undesirable as inmates and partners of the society of our most retired and sacred hours , yet have their bright passages and inspired moments , the spirit of which may be caught and transferred ; -others again whose merits ...
whole , and undesirable as inmates and partners of the society of our most retired and sacred hours , yet have their bright passages and inspired moments , the spirit of which may be caught and transferred ; -others again whose merits ...
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or valuable properties - many ponderous volumes , how- ever tedious as a whole , frequently contain something useful or beautiful , but the road to which is as arid and fatiguing as journeying through the desert of Arabia , to the green ...
or valuable properties - many ponderous volumes , how- ever tedious as a whole , frequently contain something useful or beautiful , but the road to which is as arid and fatiguing as journeying through the desert of Arabia , to the green ...
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74 ページ - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
90 ページ - ... it cannot be long before we lie down in darkness and have our light in ashes...
312 ページ - tis the soul of peace ; Of all the virtues 'tis nearest kin to heaven ; It makes men look like gods. The best of men That e'er wore earth about him was a sufferer, A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit, The first true gentleman that ever breath'd.
90 ページ - The number of the dead long exceedeth all that shall live. The night of time far surpasseth the day, and who knows when was the equinox?
136 ページ - I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
93 ページ - Darkness and light divide the course of time, and oblivion shares with memory a great part even of our living beings; we slightly remember our felicities, and the smartest strokes of affliction leave but short smart upon us. Sense endureth no extremities, and sorrows destroy us or themselves.
93 ページ - To be ignorant of evils to come, and forgetful of evils past, is a merciful provision in nature, whereby we digest the mixture of our few and evil days ; and our delivered senses not relapsing into cutting remembrances, our sorrows are not kept raw by the edge of repetitions.
18 ページ - That day she was dressed in white silk, bordered with pearls of the size of beans, and over it a mantle of black silk, shot with silver threads ; her train was very long, the end of it borne by a marchioness ; instead of a chain she had an oblong collar of gold and jewels.
90 ページ - Oblivion is not to be hired. The greater part must be content to be as though they had not been, to be found in the register of God, not in the record of man.
91 ページ - And therefore restless inquietude for the diuturnity of our memories unto present considerations, seems a vanity almost out of date, and superannuated piece of folly. We cannot hope to live so long in our names as some have done in their persons ; one face of Janus holds no proportion unto the other. It is too late to be ambitious.