The Monthly Review

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Hurst, Robinson, 1830
 

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Seite 353 - scraps of poetry, which, like the Torso of antiquity, defy the skill of his poetical brethren to complete them. The charming fragments which the author abandons to their fate, are surely too valuable to be treated like the proofs of careless engravers, the sweepings of whose studies often make the fortune of some pains-taking
Seite 350 - Upon such an office an author might hope to retreat, without any perceptible alteration of circumstances, whenever the time should arrive that the public grew weary of his endeavours to please, or he himself should tire of the occupation of authorship. At this period of my life, I possessed so many friends capable of assisting me
Seite 439 - with each evil that pollutes Mankind, where least above the brutes; Without even savage virtue blest, Without one free or valiant breast." 'And yet, with this knowledge, he lent the sanction of his noble name, exalted talents, and personal endeavour, to
Seite 353 - a hope that I did not write a parody on Mr. Coleridge's productions.* On this subject I have only to say, that I do not even know the parody which is alluded to; and were I ever to take the unbecoming freedom of censuring a man of Mr. Coleridge's extraordinary talents, it would be
Seite 532 - his bosom sympathetic ; But from those groves derived, I deem, Where Plato nursed his dream Of immortality; Seeing that clearly Thy system all is merely Peripatetic. Thou to thy pupils dost such lessons give Of how to live With temperance, sobriety, morality, (A new art,) That from thy school, by force of virtuous deeds, Each
Seite 531 - Incompetent my song to raise To its just height thy praise, Great Mill! That by thy motion proper (No thanks to wind, or sail, or working rill) Grinding that stubborn corn, the Human will, Turn's! out men's consciences, That were begrimed before, as clean and sweet As flour from purest wheat,
Seite 260 - Though Clifford ceased, he did not resume his seat, but stood in the same attitude as that in which he had reversed the order of things, and merged the petitioner in the accuser. And Brandon himself, without speaking or moving, continued still to survey him. So with erect fronts and marble countenances, in which
Seite 222 - I will venture to assert that a just translation of any ancient poet in rhyme, is impossible. No human ingenuity can be equal to the task of closing every couplet with sounds homotonous, expressing, at the same time, the full sense, and only the full sense of the original.
Seite 260 - As these dread words struck upon his ear, slowly the prisoner rose. He directed first towards the jury a brief and keen glance, and his eyes then rested full with a stern significance on the face of his judge. ' The prisoner was then asked, in the usual form, whether he had to say
Seite 532 - 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

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