New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, 40. köideThomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth Henry Colburn, 1834 |
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... thought and expression by which this piece is so eminently dis- tinguished . << The visionary rapture which takes possession of Tasso upon being crowned with laurel by the Princess Leonora d'Este , the object of an affection which the ...
... thought and expression by which this piece is so eminently dis- tinguished . << The visionary rapture which takes possession of Tasso upon being crowned with laurel by the Princess Leonora d'Este , the object of an affection which the ...
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... thought With him to share each golden evening's peace ! How grew the longing , hour by hour , to read His spirit yet ... thoughts are all for his welfare . The following passages affectingly mark the pro- gress of the dark despondency ...
... thought With him to share each golden evening's peace ! How grew the longing , hour by hour , to read His spirit yet ... thoughts are all for his welfare . The following passages affectingly mark the pro- gress of the dark despondency ...
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... thought and song My life is life no more ! Wilt thou forbid the silkworm to spin on , When hourly , with the labour'd line , he draws Nearer to death ? -in vain ! -the costly web Must from his inmost being still be wrought , Till he ...
... thought and song My life is life no more ! Wilt thou forbid the silkworm to spin on , When hourly , with the labour'd line , he draws Nearer to death ? -in vain ! -the costly web Must from his inmost being still be wrought , Till he ...
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... thought ) on this occasion . The handsome church , just then finished on the hill - side , faced the village , contrary to the position of the old edifice ; and , on the morning after the battle , it was said that the blood which poured ...
... thought ) on this occasion . The handsome church , just then finished on the hill - side , faced the village , contrary to the position of the old edifice ; and , on the morning after the battle , it was said that the blood which poured ...
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... thought to thought , without stop or intermission ; -if they do not equal in strength or intensity the fixity of the passions , give birth to feelings at once novel , diversified , and exultant . " One of the most striking changes in ...
... thought to thought , without stop or intermission ; -if they do not equal in strength or intensity the fixity of the passions , give birth to feelings at once novel , diversified , and exultant . " One of the most striking changes in ...
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Page 142 - Grace was in all her steps, Heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love.
Page 101 - How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here will we sit and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears; soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony.
Page 43 - The light which we have gained, was given us, not to be ever staring on, but by it to discover onward things more remote from our knowledge.
Page 43 - ... a wicked race of deceivers, who as that story goes of the Egyptian Typhon 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.
Page 41 - Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope, but still bear up and steer Right onward.
Page 43 - We have not yet found them all, lords and commons, nor ever shall do, till her master's second coming ; he shall bring together every joint and member, and shall mould them into an immortal feature of loveliness and perfection.
Page 43 - Truth indeed came once into the world with her divine Master, and was a perfect shape most glorious to look on; but when he ascended, and his apostles after him were laid asleep, then straight arose a wicked race of deceivers, who, as that story goes of the Egyptian Typhon 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.
Page 46 - ... where they undoubtedly, that by their labours, counsels, and prayers, have been earnest for the common good of religion and their country, shall receive above the inferior orders of the blessed, the regal addition of principalities, legions, and thrones into their glorious titles, and in supereminence of beatific vision, progressing the dateless and irrevoluble circle of eternity, shall clasp inseparable hands with joy and blifls. in overmeasure for ever.
Page 46 - ... in this land throughout all ages ; whereby this great and warlike nation, instructed and inured to the fervent and continual practice of truth and righteousness, and casting far from her the rags of her old vices, may press on hard to that high and happy emulation to be found the soberest, wisest, and most Christian people...
Page 8 - All this hath somewhat worn me, and may wear, But must be borne. I stoop not to despair; For I have battled with mine agony, And made me wings wherewith to overfly The narrow circus of my dungeon wall...