The Eclectic Review, Volume 5; Volume 23Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood 1816 - English literature |
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... respect to the last changes of republican Rome . The compa- rison must therefore be made with considerable latitude , and with many grains of allowance . Among the Essays arranged under the head of Classical and Critical , we cannot ...
... respect to the last changes of republican Rome . The compa- rison must therefore be made with considerable latitude , and with many grains of allowance . Among the Essays arranged under the head of Classical and Critical , we cannot ...
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... respect to the Subject of his history , Mr. Gibbon will readily be allowed to have an advantage over both his competi- tors , in the two important points of unity and grandeur . His subject possesses in a high degree that merit which ...
... respect to the Subject of his history , Mr. Gibbon will readily be allowed to have an advantage over both his competi- tors , in the two important points of unity and grandeur . His subject possesses in a high degree that merit which ...
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... respect a manifest superiority , yet , even the latter does not in its enunci- ation imply much magnificence of promise . And yet , as either subject is made to open upon us by the poet , and by the historian , respectively , what vast ...
... respect a manifest superiority , yet , even the latter does not in its enunci- ation imply much magnificence of promise . And yet , as either subject is made to open upon us by the poet , and by the historian , respectively , what vast ...
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... respect he might possibly have been originally inferior ; he could not well have been superior to the two Scotch historians . For , of these , the one assures us himself , that he ever found an unsur- mountable aversion to every thing ...
... respect he might possibly have been originally inferior ; he could not well have been superior to the two Scotch historians . For , of these , the one assures us himself , that he ever found an unsur- mountable aversion to every thing ...
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... respect is the situation of the historian ! To him truth is quite essential ; and frequently his most troublesome and tedious labour is bestowed upon sift- ing out the truth , amid the obscurity or contradictions of con- temporary ...
... respect is the situation of the historian ! To him truth is quite essential ; and frequently his most troublesome and tedious labour is bestowed upon sift- ing out the truth , amid the obscurity or contradictions of con- temporary ...
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Page 432 - My Godfathers and Godmothers in my Baptism ; wherein I was made a member of Christ, the child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven.
Page 562 - Jesu, Maria, shield her well! She folded her arms beneath her cloak, And stole to the other side of the oak.
Page 349 - Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow ; which came up in a night, and perished in a night. And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than six score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand, and also much cattle ?
Page 564 - A snake's small eye blinks dull and shy, And the lady's eyes they shrunk in her head, Each shrunk up to a serpent's eye, And with somewhat of malice, and more of dread, At Christabel she looked askance!
Page 561 - Is the night chilly and dark ? The night is chilly, but not dark. The thin gray cloud is spread on high, It covers but not hides the sky. The moon is behind, and at the full; And yet she looks both small and dull. The night ,is chill, the cloud is gray : "Tis a month before the month of May, And the Spring comes slowly up this way.
Page 565 - So deeply had she drunken in That look, those shrunken serpent eyes, That all her features were resigned To this sole image in her mind: And passively did imitate That look of dull and treacherous hate!
Page 386 - But if any provide not for his own, and especially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
Page 267 - Out upon Time! it will leave no more Of the things to come than the things before ! Out upon Time! who for ever will leave But enough of the past for the future to grieve...
Page 426 - they are made members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the Kingdom of Heaven...
Page 561 - The thin gray cloud is spread on high, It covers but not hides the sky. The moon is behind, and at the full; And yet she looks both small and dull. The night is chill, the cloud is gray: 'Tis a month before the month of May, And the Spring comes slowly up this way. The lovely lady, Christabel...