Monthly Review; Or New Literary JournalR. Griffiths., 1830 Editors: May 1749-Sept. 1803, Ralph Griffiths; Oct. 1803-Apr. 1825, G. E. Griffiths. |
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Seite 507 - eagle flew, Then tore, with bloody beak, the fatal plain; Pierced with the shafts of banded nations through, Ambition's life, and labours, all were vain— He wears the shatter'd links of the world's broken chain." Mr. Reinagle sketched with a pencil a spirited chained eagle, grasping
Seite 567 - of such institutions, with all their possible improvements, upon the mind and genius of a people, is sacredly bound to speak with reverential gratitude of the authors of the Great Charter. To have produced it, to have preserved it, to have matured it, constitute the immortal claim of England on the esteem of mankind. Her Bacons and Shakspeares, her
Seite 360 - or than even I, or other partial friends, can fairly allow to your merit. You stand high—do not rashly attempt to climb higher, and incur the risk of a fall; for, depend upon it, a favourite will not be permitted even to stumble with impunity." I replied to this affectionate expostulation in the words of Montrose
Seite 232 - level with the ground— May Jove restore you, when your toils are o'er, Safe to the pleasures of your native shore, But oh! relieve a wretched parent's pain, And give Chryseis to these arms again:
Seite 533 - Such goodness in your face doth shine, With modest look, without design, That I despair, poor pen of mine, Can e'er express it. To give it words I feebly try ; My spirits fail me to supply Befitting language for 't, and I Can only bless
Seite 536 - Or jump, But walk men into virtue ; betwixt crime And slow repentance giving breathing time, And leisure to be good ; Instructing with discretion demi-reps How to direct their steps. VII. ' Thou best Philosopher made out of wood ! Not that which framed the tub, Where sate the Cynic cub, With nothing
Seite 51 - intervals; but as he proceeds they increase in rapidity, until at last, and after perhaps the lapse of a minute or so, he makes a sort of gulp in his throat, and finishes with sucking in, as it were, his breath. ' During the continuance of this latter process, which only lasts a few seconds, the
Seite 334 - errors out of the Pope's Vulgate, and as many out of the Protestant Pope Stephens, I can set out an edition of each in columns, without using any book under 900 years old, that shall so exactly agree word for word, and, what at first amazed me, order for order, that
Seite 425 - and its evident though gradual decay. Yet it was but lately that you saw him with you, sedulous and active as the youngest member—directing your studies with the affection of a parent—addressing you with the courtesy of an equal—and conferring the benefit of his knowledge and his genius as though he himself were receiving obligation.
Seite 359 - The publication of my next poetical attempt was prematurely accelerated, from one of those unpleasant accidents which can neither be foreseen nor avoided. 'I had formed the prudent resolution to endeavour to bestow a little more labour than I had yet done on my productions, and to be in no hurry again to announce myself as a candidate for literary fame.