Retrospective Review, Volume 9Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas C. and H. Baldwyn, 1824 |
Vanuit het boek
Resultaten 1-5 van 67
Pagina 8
... spirit of paganism , like that of most other systems , was produced and regulated by motives of policy and calculation . It requires but a moment's consideration to perceive that the interests of the Romish Church were in every respect ...
... spirit of paganism , like that of most other systems , was produced and regulated by motives of policy and calculation . It requires but a moment's consideration to perceive that the interests of the Romish Church were in every respect ...
Pagina 16
... spirit of popular enquiry , were an error no less fatal than absurd . Any such attempt would but give new stimulus to the people , and recoil upon the heads of its contrivers . Restrictions upon printing are too late ; prosecution when ...
... spirit of popular enquiry , were an error no less fatal than absurd . Any such attempt would but give new stimulus to the people , and recoil upon the heads of its contrivers . Restrictions upon printing are too late ; prosecution when ...
Pagina 18
... spirit , acute to invent , subtle and sinewy to discourse , not beneath the reach of any point , the highest that human capacity can soar to . " We are not sufficiently dogmatical to believe that our peculiar notions should regulate all ...
... spirit , acute to invent , subtle and sinewy to discourse , not beneath the reach of any point , the highest that human capacity can soar to . " We are not sufficiently dogmatical to believe that our peculiar notions should regulate all ...
Pagina 19
... spirits among us , as his was , who when Rome was nigh besieged by Hannibal , being in the city , bought that piece of ground at no cheap rate , whereon Hannibal himself encamped his own regi- ment . Next it is a lively and cheerful ...
... spirits among us , as his was , who when Rome was nigh besieged by Hannibal , being in the city , bought that piece of ground at no cheap rate , whereon Hannibal himself encamped his own regi- ment . Next it is a lively and cheerful ...
Pagina 23
... spirits are also present in much of Suckling's poetry , and they cause an almost total absence of anything like the ... spirit , and gaieté de cœur , which they almost every where exhibit , they are not without evidences of the writer ...
... spirits are also present in much of Suckling's poetry , and they cause an almost total absence of anything like the ... spirit , and gaieté de cœur , which they almost every where exhibit , they are not without evidences of the writer ...
Overige edities - Alles bekijken
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
admiration ancient appear Ariosto Berkshire Buccaneers Cabala called Canterbury Tales Captain cause character Charles Brockden Brown Chaucer church considerable course Dampier death delight delinquents doth Elwes Emblems England English estates eyes favour feelings frequently genius George Wither give hands hath heart Henry Peacham holy honour Ignatius island Jamaica Jesuits king labours land language learning living Lords and Commons manner Marcham means ment Milton mind miser Montserrat moral nature never night observe opinion ordinance papists parliament passage passion perhaps persons pirates poet poetry Pope possession present reader reason religion sailed seems sequestration shew ship Sir Harvey society Society of Jesus soul sound Spaniards spirit sweet thee thing thou thought tion took truth unto verses vowel voyage William Cartwright William Dampier words writings
Populaire passages
Pagina 314 - Lone wandering, but not lost. All day thy wings have fanned At that far height, the cold thin atmosphere; Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome land, Though the dark night is near.
Pagina 31 - WHY so pale and wan, fond lover? Prithee, why so pale? Will, when looking well can't move her, Looking ill prevail? Prithee, why so pale?
Pagina 12 - Osiris, took the virgin truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds. From that time ever since, the sad friends of truth, such as durst appear, imitating the careful search that Isis made for the mangled body of Osiris, went up and down gathering up limb by limb still as they could find them.
Pagina 314 - midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.
Pagina 361 - I know that all the muse's heavenly lays, With toil of sprite which are so dearly bought, As idle sounds, of few or none are sought, That there is nothing lighter than mere praise.
Pagina 314 - Seek'st thou the plashy brink Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide, Or where the rocking billows rise and sink On the chafed ocean side? • There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast.— The desert and illimitable air,— Lone wandering, but not lost.
Pagina 19 - ... is so sprightly up, as that it has not only wherewith to guard well its own freedom and safety, but to spare, and to bestow upon the solidest and sublimest points of controversy and new invention, it betokens us not degenerated, nor drooping to a fatal decay...
Pagina 12 - Him were laid asleep, then straight arose a wicked race of deceivers, who, as that story goes of the Egyptian Typhon, i with his conspirators, how they dealt with the good Osiris, took the virgin Truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds. From that time ever since, the sad friends of...
Pagina 13 - To be still searching what we know not, by what we know, still closing up truth to truth as we find it (for all her body is homogeneal, and proportional) this is the golden rule in Theology as well as in Arithmetic, and makes up the best harmony in a church; not the forced and outward union of cold, and neutral, and inwardly divided minds.
Pagina 364 - Since that dear voice which did thy sounds approve, Which wont in such harmonious strains to flow, Is reft from earth to tune those spheres above, What art thou but a harbinger of woe? Thy pleasing notes be pleasing notes no more, But orphans...