Selections Fron the Edinburgh Review, Comprising the Best Articles in that Journal, from Its Commencement to the Present Time, Volúmenes1-2Baudry's European Library, 1835 |
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... passion for more substantial and exciting information than they supplied . The periodical literature , brought to perfection by Steele and his contemporaries , was precisely adopted to the character of their age . The form of their ...
... passion for more substantial and exciting information than they supplied . The periodical literature , brought to perfection by Steele and his contemporaries , was precisely adopted to the character of their age . The form of their ...
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... passions were deeply roused ; and a spirit was kindled , in every part of the community , which continued to blaze out in fits of passionate excitement , until the French Revolution burst forth to dazzle and terrify the world . From ...
... passions were deeply roused ; and a spirit was kindled , in every part of the community , which continued to blaze out in fits of passionate excitement , until the French Revolution burst forth to dazzle and terrify the world . From ...
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... passion - cannot enjoy a permanent degree of popularity . " ( The powerful impulse given to public opinion and intellectual improve- ment by the Revolution in France , was very sensibly felt in Scotland . Until the close of the American ...
... passion - cannot enjoy a permanent degree of popularity . " ( The powerful impulse given to public opinion and intellectual improve- ment by the Revolution in France , was very sensibly felt in Scotland . Until the close of the American ...
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... passion ; although passion approaches nearest to it , when it spreads that haze before our eyes , which changes and magni- fies objects from their actual and prosaic size . Passion , in truth , often stimulates the imagination , and the ...
... passion ; although passion approaches nearest to it , when it spreads that haze before our eyes , which changes and magni- fies objects from their actual and prosaic size . Passion , in truth , often stimulates the imagination , and the ...
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... passion ; sporting with sights which catch the eye only , and sounds which play but on the ear . It proceeds upon a principle of assimilation , and irradiates an idea . with similes ; but it leaves the original thought untouched , and ...
... passion ; sporting with sights which catch the eye only , and sounds which play but on the ear . It proceeds upon a principle of assimilation , and irradiates an idea . with similes ; but it leaves the original thought untouched , and ...
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Página 231 - MILTON ! thou shouldst be living at this hour : England hath need of thee : she is a fen Of stagnant waters : altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men ; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power.
Página 341 - It was the lark, the herald of the morn, No nightingale ; look, love, what envious streaks Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east. Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops; I must be gone and live, or stay and die.
Página 197 - He who ascends to mountain-tops, shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow ; He who surpasses or subdues mankind, Must look down on the hate of those below. Though high above the sun of glory glow, And far beneath the earth and ocean spread, Round him are icy rocks, and loudly blow Contending tempests on his naked head, And thus reward the toils which to those summits led.
Página 266 - They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.
Página 317 - The stars are forth, the moon above the tops Of the snow-shining mountains. — Beautiful ! I linger yet with nature, for the night Hath been to me a more familiar face Than that of man ; and in her starry shade Of dim and solitary loveliness, I learned the language of another world.
Página 61 - Their palaces were houses not made with hands; their diadems, crowns of glory which should never fade away! On the rich and the eloquent, on nobles and priests they looked down with contempt; for they esteemed themselves rich in more precious treasure and eloquent in a more sublime language; nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand.
Página 231 - Once did She hold the gorgeous east in fee ; And was the safeguard of the west : the worth Of Venice did not fall below her birth, Venice, the eldest Child of Liberty. She was a maiden City, bright and free; No guile seduced, no force could violate ; And, when she took unto herself a Mate, She must espouse the everlasting Sea. And what if she had seen those glories fade, Those titles vanish, and that strength decay; Yet shall some tribute of regret be paid When her long life hath reached its final...
Página 43 - And drenches with Elysian dew (List, mortals, if your ears be true) Beds of hyacinth and roses, Where young Adonis oft reposes, Waxing well of his deep wound, In slumber soft, and on the ground Sadly sits the Assyrian queen.
Página 56 - Such a spirit is Liberty. At times she takes the form of a hateful reptile. She grovels, she hisses, she stings. But woe to those who in disgust shall venture 'to crush her ! And happy are those who, having dared to receive her in her degraded and frightful shape, shall at length be rewarded by her in the time of her beauty and her glory ! There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces ; and that cure is freedom.
Página 412 - Enow of such, as for their bellies' sake Creep and intrude and climb into the fold! Of other care they little reckoning make Than how to scramble at the shearers' feast, And shove away the worthy bidden guest; Blind mouths!