The Quarterly Review, Band 13John Murray, 1815 |
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Seite 153 - It is not his business alone to translate language into language, but poesie into poesie ; and poesie is of so subtile a spirit, that in pouring out of one language into another, it will all evaporate; and if a new spirit be not added
Seite 105 - it as it came, And deem'd the deep opaque would blot her beams ; But, melting like a wreath of snow, it hangs In folds of wavy silver round, and clothes The orb with richer beauties than her own, Then passing, leaves her in her light serene. ' Thus having said, the pious sufferer sate Beholding with
Seite 297 - But here—above, around, below, On mountain or in glen, Nor tree, nor shrub, nor plant, nor flower, Nor aught of vegetative power The weary eye may ken. For all is rocks at random thrown, Black waves, bare crags, and banks of stone, As if were here denied The summer sun, the spring'* sweet dew, That clothe with many a varied hue The bleakest
Seite 492 - disorder he has deprived himself of the protection of the law, and has manifested to the universe that there can be neither peace nor truce with him. The powers consequently declare that Napoleon Buonaparte has placed himself without the pale of civil and social relations, and that as an enemy and disturber of the tranquillity of the world he has rendered
Seite 305 - on— Eternal shame, if at the brunt Lord Ronald grace not battle's front!— " See yonder oak, within whose trunk Decay a darken'd cell hath sunk ; Enter and rest thee there a space, Wrap in my plaid thy limbs, thy face. I will not be, believe me, far, But must not quit the ranks of
Seite 2 - Gull and Spurzheim, founded on an Anatomical and Physiological Examination of the Nervous System in general, and of the Brain in particular, and indicating the Dispositions and Manifestations of the Mind. By JG Spurzheim, MD
Seite 101 - Before Rusilla's feet, eyeing him long And wistfully, had recognised at length, Changed as he was, and in those sordid weeds, His royal master. And he rose and lick'd His wither'd hand, and earnestly look'd up With eyes whose human meaning did not need The aid of speech; and moan'd, as
Seite 304 - Now up the rocky pass they drew, And Ronald, to his promise true, Still made his arm the stripling's stay, To aid him on the rugged way. " Now cheer thee, simple Amadine ! That name the pirates to their slave Why throbs that silly heart of thine?
Seite 130 - have still a sufficient force to protect me from any insult in sailing down the river to the sea. ' We have already embarked all our things, and shall sail the moment I have finished this letter. I do not intend to stop or land any where till we reach the coast, which
Seite 304 - not part."— Finds mark the archer little meant ! And many a word at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken 1 Half