Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volumen1John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell Leavitt, Throw and Company, 1844 |
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... interest in themselves , and imbodying much curious portraiture of per- sons and of manners . The reader not gene- rally acquainted with the times , will find a sufficient guide to them in any common French history at hand : the reader ...
... interest in themselves , and imbodying much curious portraiture of per- sons and of manners . The reader not gene- rally acquainted with the times , will find a sufficient guide to them in any common French history at hand : the reader ...
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... interest him , he hears their details patiently sometimes during three or four hours in the council . In all decisions he rests on his mother , whom he honors with a respect most admirable . There are few sons so obedient ; few mothers ...
... interest him , he hears their details patiently sometimes during three or four hours in the council . In all decisions he rests on his mother , whom he honors with a respect most admirable . There are few sons so obedient ; few mothers ...
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... interest cast over the person of the beautiful young queen , Louisa of Lorraine : perfectly without influ- ence , ( since Catherine would have borne with no power in a daughter - in - law ; ) adoring her unworthy and effeminate husband ...
... interest cast over the person of the beautiful young queen , Louisa of Lorraine : perfectly without influ- ence , ( since Catherine would have borne with no power in a daughter - in - law ; ) adoring her unworthy and effeminate husband ...
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... interest , and good faith in the government , are the best means of disarming parties , and of restoring to the public mind that confidence , and to the institutions that stability , which are the only sure pledges of the happiness of ...
... interest , and good faith in the government , are the best means of disarming parties , and of restoring to the public mind that confidence , and to the institutions that stability , which are the only sure pledges of the happiness of ...
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... interest in the fate of Warsaw . He had ardently desired that the Poles should be able to hold out long enough for negotia- tions to be set on foot , and for , at least , a diplomatic intervention to take place . But he was disappointed ...
... interest in the fate of Warsaw . He had ardently desired that the Poles should be able to hold out long enough for negotia- tions to be set on foot , and for , at least , a diplomatic intervention to take place . But he was disappointed ...
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Página 460 - In the discussions to which this interest has given rise, and in the arrangements by which they may terminate, the occasion has been judged proper for asserting as a principle in which the rights, and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers.
Página 443 - They are powerful, not only to delight, but to elevate and purify. Nor do we envy the man who can study either the life or the writings of the great poet and patriot, without aspiring to emulate, not indeed the sublime works with which his genius has enriched our literature, but the zeal with which he...
Página 395 - I beseech you, Wrest once the law to your authority: To do a great right, do a little wrong, And curb this cruel devil of his will.
Página 430 - ... moral and intellectual qualities. Nor, we are convinced, will the severest of our readers blame us if, on an occasion like the present, we turn for a short time from the topics of the day, to commemorate, in all love and reverence, the genius and virtues of John Milton, the poet, the statesman, the philosopher, the glory of English literature, the champion and the martyr of English liberty.
Página 297 - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold ; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones...
Página 433 - Comus, grotesque monsters, half bestial, half human, dropping with wine, bloated with gluttony, and reeling in obscene dances. Amidst these...
Página 174 - Si, comme je me plais à le croire, l'intérêt de la science est compté au nombre des grands intérêts nationaux , j'ai donné à mon pays tout ce que lui donne le soldat mutilé sur le champ de bataille.
Página 432 - A philosopher might admire so noble a conception ; but the crowd turned away in disgust from words which presented no image to their minds. It was before Deity embodied in a human form, walking among men, partaking of their infirmities, leaning on their bosoms, weeping over their graves, slumbering in the manger, bleeding on the cross, that the prejudices of the Synagogue, and the doubts of the Academy, and the pride of the Portico, and the fasces of the Lictor, and the swords of thirty Legions,...
Página 399 - A man may see how this world goes with no eyes. Look with thine ears : see how yond justice rails upon yond simple thief. Hark, in thine ear : change places; and, handy-dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief?
Página 431 - fine frenzy ' which he ascribes to the poet, — a fine frenzy doubtless, but still a frenzy. Truth, indeed, is essential to poetry ; but it is the truth of madness. The reasonings are just ; but the premises are false. After the first suppositions have been made, everything ought to be consistent ; but those first suppositions require a degree of credulity which almost amounts to a partial and temporary derangement of the intellect.