The Retrospective Review.., Volume 3Henry Southern Charles and Henry Baldwyn, Newgate Street., 1821 |
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Pagina 42
... heart findes lighting place . " The description of Armida in the following stanza , though fantastic , is exceedingly beautiful - the four last lines are quite singular for the minute accuracy , yet happy elegance , of the translation ...
... heart findes lighting place . " The description of Armida in the following stanza , though fantastic , is exceedingly beautiful - the four last lines are quite singular for the minute accuracy , yet happy elegance , of the translation ...
Pagina 47
... heart of Tasso , though unfortunately his hand was incapable of sounding the chords of the poet's lyre . Sometimes indeed , as we think our extracts fully prove , he is singularly successful , but he soon reverts to a harsh and ...
... heart of Tasso , though unfortunately his hand was incapable of sounding the chords of the poet's lyre . Sometimes indeed , as we think our extracts fully prove , he is singularly successful , but he soon reverts to a harsh and ...
Pagina 48
... heart is the name echoed with more fondness than in that of the poet . To him it recalls a thousand lofty names , a thousand fascinating images of beauty and power ; it is linked to his spirit by the tenderest and the finest ...
... heart is the name echoed with more fondness than in that of the poet . To him it recalls a thousand lofty names , a thousand fascinating images of beauty and power ; it is linked to his spirit by the tenderest and the finest ...
Pagina 49
... heart ; to rouse its sympathies and its passions was their great object . But while they thus attempted to excite the interest and the admiration of their votaries , beneath this garb of beauty and ornament was generally concealed some ...
... heart ; to rouse its sympathies and its passions was their great object . But while they thus attempted to excite the interest and the admiration of their votaries , beneath this garb of beauty and ornament was generally concealed some ...
Pagina 50
... heart to that beauty which has only found immortality in his despised affection . 66 " But Thou — when all that birth and beauty throws Of magic round thee is extinct - shalt have One half the laurel that o'ershades my grave . No power ...
... heart to that beauty which has only found immortality in his despised affection . 66 " But Thou — when all that birth and beauty throws Of magic round thee is extinct - shalt have One half the laurel that o'ershades my grave . No power ...
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Pagina 217 - SWEET day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night, For thou must die. Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die. Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, My music shows ye have your closes, And all must die.
Pagina 184 - As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er Heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene ; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head...
Pagina 221 - Let us (said he) pour on him all we can: Let the world's riches, which dispersed lie, Contract into a span. So strength first made a way; Then beauty flowed, then wisdom, honour, pleasure: When almost all was out, God made a stay, Perceiving that alone of all his treasure Rest in the bottom lay. For if I should...
Pagina 142 - Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favour. Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of -Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Pagina 218 - WHO says that fictions only and false hair Become a verse ? Is there in truth no beauty ? Is all good structure in a winding stair...
Pagina 58 - ... but only a rod and a ferula. Secondly, others who are able, use it only as a passage to better preferment, to patch the rents in their present fortune, till they can provide a. new one, and betake themselves to some more gainful calling. Thirdly, they are disheartened from doing their best with the miserable reward which in some places they receive, being masters to their children and slaves to their parents.
Pagina 143 - But it is not good to stay too long in the theatre. Let us now pass on to the judicial place or palace of the mind, which we are to approach and view with more reverence and attention.
Pagina 148 - But as young men, when they knit and shape perfectly, do seldom grow to a further stature ; so knowledge, while it is in aphorisms and observations, it is in growth ; but when it once is comprehended in exact methods, it may perchance be further polished and illustrated, and accommodated for use and practice ; but it increaseth no more in bulk and substance.
Pagina 146 - But the greatest error of all the rest, is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge : for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge...
Pagina 220 - I did ; and going did a rainbow note : Surely, thought I, This is the lace of Peace's coat : I will search out the matter.