Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, Etc, Teil 1

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William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, Frederick Arnold, John Morley, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin
H. Colburn, 1817

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Seite 86 - I know my course. The spirit that I have seen May be the devil: and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, — As he is very potent with such spirits, — Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds More relative than this.
Seite 295 - But the gladiators' bloody Circus stands, A noble wreck in ruinous perfection ! While Caesar's chambers and the Augustan halls Grovel on earth in indistinct decay. — And thou didst shine, thou rolling moon, upon All this, and cast a wide and tender light, Which...
Seite 295 - Midst the chief relics of almighty Rome; The trees which grew along the broken arches Waved dark in the blue midnight, and the stars Shone through the rents of ruin ; from afar The watch-dog...
Seite 4 - The rapid Progress true Science now makes, occasions my regretting sometimes that I was born so soon. It is impossible to imagine the Height to which may be carried, in a thousand years, the Power of Man over Matter. We may perhaps learn to deprive large Masses of their Gravity, and give them absolute Levity, for the sake of easy Transport.
Seite 5 - There being no wind, we were obliged, when the ebb was spent, to cast anchor, and wait for the next. The heat of the sun on the vessel was excessive, the company strangers to me, and not very agreeable. Near the river side I saw what I took to be...
Seite 193 - Millions of flaming swords, drawn from the thighs Of mighty Cherubim ; the sudden blaze Far round illumined Hell. Highly they raged Against the Highest, and fierce with grasped arms Clashed on their sounding shields the din of war, Hurling defiance toward the vault of Heaven.
Seite 89 - Sketch of the New Anatomy and Physiology of the Brain and Nervous System of Drs Gall and Spurzheim...
Seite 5 - ... getting into some business, that will in time enable you to pay all your debts. In that case, when you meet with another honest man in similar distress, you must pay me by lending this sum to him; enjoining him to discharge the debt by a like operation, when he shall be able, and shall meet with such another opportunity. I hope it may thus go through many hands, before it meets with a knave that will stop its progress.
Seite 254 - Riley, who briefly wrote the circumstances of the loss of the ship, his captivity, &c. adding, " worn down to the bone by the most dreadful of all sufferings, naked, and a slave, I implore your pity, and trust that such distress will not be suffered to plead in vain.
Seite 235 - Turned inward, — to examine of what stuff Time's fetters are composed; and life was put To inquisition, long and profitless ! By pain of heart — now checked — and now impelled The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on, a dim and perilous way!

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