Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Band 1John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell Leavitt, Throw and Company, 1844 |
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... nature , the king these two dead kings , we turn to the present , rarely present , but spending this time in the named Charles IX . Child as he is , yet scarce study of letters , knowing that these bring with eleven years old , our ju ...
... nature , the king these two dead kings , we turn to the present , rarely present , but spending this time in the named Charles IX . Child as he is , yet scarce study of letters , knowing that these bring with eleven years old , our ju ...
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... nature , they re- main unchanged . He daily obtains more influ- ence , wherefore it is believed that he is reconcil- ed to the queen , who hated him till now - not only because during King Henry's life he had been on friendly terms with ...
... nature , they re- main unchanged . He daily obtains more influ- ence , wherefore it is believed that he is reconcil- ed to the queen , who hated him till now - not only because during King Henry's life he had been on friendly terms with ...
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... nature inclined to quiet and repose , his forehead broad , his carriage graceful ; and he truly far removed from the liveliness of spirit delights in being superbly dressed , and loaded with common at his years , which are twenty - four ...
... nature inclined to quiet and repose , his forehead broad , his carriage graceful ; and he truly far removed from the liveliness of spirit delights in being superbly dressed , and loaded with common at his years , which are twenty - four ...
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... nature , but has some fine qualities : being liberal , considering his means , a man of his word and gentle with every one , and as yet un- corrupted in his religion . But he never was on terms with his brothers ; least of all with this ...
... nature , but has some fine qualities : being liberal , considering his means , a man of his word and gentle with every one , and as yet un- corrupted in his religion . But he never was on terms with his brothers ; least of all with this ...
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... nature , willing to promise largely when anxious to obtain any thing , but having obtained , at once repenting . And thus he either will refuse payment or defer it as much as pos- sible . The ceremonies of the holy week re- semble ours ...
... nature , willing to promise largely when anxious to obtain any thing , but having obtained , at once repenting . And thus he either will refuse payment or defer it as much as pos- sible . The ceremonies of the holy week re- semble ours ...
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Seite 460 - In the discussions to which this interest has given rise, and in the arrangements by which they may terminate, the occasion has been judged proper for asserting as a principle in which the rights, and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers.
Seite 443 - They are powerful, not only to delight, but to elevate and purify. Nor do we envy the man who can study either the life or the writings of the great poet and patriot, without aspiring to emulate, not indeed the sublime works with which his genius has enriched our literature, but the zeal with which he...
Seite 395 - I beseech you, Wrest once the law to your authority: To do a great right, do a little wrong, And curb this cruel devil of his will.
Seite 430 - ... moral and intellectual qualities. Nor, we are convinced, will the severest of our readers blame us if, on an occasion like the present, we turn for a short time from the topics of the day, to commemorate, in all love and reverence, the genius and virtues of John Milton, the poet, the statesman, the philosopher, the glory of English literature, the champion and the martyr of English liberty.
Seite 297 - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold ; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones...
Seite 433 - Comus, grotesque monsters, half bestial, half human, dropping with wine, bloated with gluttony, and reeling in obscene dances. Amidst these...
Seite 174 - Si, comme je me plais à le croire, l'intérêt de la science est compté au nombre des grands intérêts nationaux , j'ai donné à mon pays tout ce que lui donne le soldat mutilé sur le champ de bataille.
Seite 432 - A philosopher might admire so noble a conception ; but the crowd turned away in disgust from words which presented no image to their minds. It was before Deity embodied in a human form, walking among men, partaking of their infirmities, leaning on their bosoms, weeping over their graves, slumbering in the manger, bleeding on the cross, that the prejudices of the Synagogue, and the doubts of the Academy, and the pride of the Portico, and the fasces of the Lictor, and the swords of thirty Legions,...
Seite 399 - A man may see how this world goes with no eyes. Look with thine ears : see how yond justice rails upon yond simple thief. Hark, in thine ear : change places; and, handy-dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief?
Seite 431 - fine frenzy ' which he ascribes to the poet, — a fine frenzy doubtless, but still a frenzy. Truth, indeed, is essential to poetry ; but it is the truth of madness. The reasonings are just ; but the premises are false. After the first suppositions have been made, everything ought to be consistent ; but those first suppositions require a degree of credulity which almost amounts to a partial and temporary derangement of the intellect.