The Monthly Review, Or, Literary JournalR. Griffiths, 1824 |
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... English monarch of an intelligent and a candid mind . I am ready to assert , and stake my life on the truth of the assertion , that no expression is to be found in B 2 the the letters of Cowper that can be proved to be LIST NO .
... English monarch of an intelligent and a candid mind . I am ready to assert , and stake my life on the truth of the assertion , that no expression is to be found in B 2 the the letters of Cowper that can be proved to be LIST NO .
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... English language ; unstudied , and alike redundant of fancy , feeling , and of thought . The curiosity of the public , however , so natural and so laudable , as to the early history of Cowper , the formation of his character , and the ...
... English language ; unstudied , and alike redundant of fancy , feeling , and of thought . The curiosity of the public , however , so natural and so laudable , as to the early history of Cowper , the formation of his character , and the ...
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... English language is not well adapted to the form of the composition , which requires a more copious supply of rhymes than our English terminations afford . In following the Italian model , ( the only legitimate sonnet , ) the poet ...
... English language is not well adapted to the form of the composition , which requires a more copious supply of rhymes than our English terminations afford . In following the Italian model , ( the only legitimate sonnet , ) the poet ...
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and " Stanzas , " in which our English poets utter their senti- ments and their sorrows . When a writer is aware that he must at all hazards express himself within the compass of fourteen lines , all his efforts are directed to the ...
and " Stanzas , " in which our English poets utter their senti- ments and their sorrows . When a writer is aware that he must at all hazards express himself within the compass of fourteen lines , all his efforts are directed to the ...
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... English reader to form a more accurate idea of the character of the Italian sonnet than per- haps we can gather from any other source in our literature . We shall quote , indifferently , a sonnet from Petrarch and another from Monti ...
... English reader to form a more accurate idea of the character of the Italian sonnet than per- haps we can gather from any other source in our literature . We shall quote , indifferently , a sonnet from Petrarch and another from Monti ...
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Seite 288 - O Cromwell, Cromwell, Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.
Seite 57 - Is there under the heavens a more glorious and refreshing object, of the kind, than an impregnable hedge, of about four hundred feet in length, nine feet high, and five in diameter, which I can...
Seite 304 - Words become general, by being made the signs of general ideas ; and ideas become general, by separating from them the circumstances of time, and place, and any other ideas, that may determine them to this or that particular existence.
Seite 266 - I'll example you with thievery: The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction Robs the vast sea: the moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun...
Seite 386 - Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past; which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done...
Seite 173 - At this season of the year, and in this gloomy uncomfortable climate, it is no easy matter for the owner of a mind like mine, to divert it from sad subjects, and fix it upon such as may administer to its amusement.
Seite 438 - The Atrocities of the Pirates; being a Faithful Narrative of the Unparalleled Sufferings endured by the author during his captivity among the Pirates of the Island of Cuba; with an Account of the Excesses and Barbarities of those Inhuman Freebooters.
Seite 171 - No voice divine the storm allayed, No light propitious shone, When, snatched from all effectual aid, We perished, each alone : But I beneath a rougher sea, And whelmed in deeper gulfs than he.
Seite 344 - Italy ; and if they have the same effect on your temper, they will have just the same effects upon your interest ; and be your merit what it will, you will never be employed to paint a picture. It will be the same at London as at Rome ; and the same in Paris as in London : for the world is pretty nearly alike in all its parts...
Seite 169 - THERE is in souls a sympathy with sounds, And as the mind is pitched the ear is pleased With melting airs or martial, brisk or grave ; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touched within us, and the heart replies.