The European Magazine, and London Review, Volume 27Philological Society of London, 1795 - English literature |
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... seems to fmile ; Our blifs unbloffom'd , all our glories fled , Our wither'd beauty's languid , pale , and wan ; Ye Gods ! how flender and how weak a thread Suftains our bleffings if they hang on man ! Oft at the fall of Kings , the ...
... seems to fmile ; Our blifs unbloffom'd , all our glories fled , Our wither'd beauty's languid , pale , and wan ; Ye Gods ! how flender and how weak a thread Suftains our bleffings if they hang on man ! Oft at the fall of Kings , the ...
Page 91
... seems to have had no great obligations to fortune ; for we do not find , that his learning and accomplish ments ever procured him any thing better from this period than his labo- rious though honourable employment of teaching the ...
... seems to have had no great obligations to fortune ; for we do not find , that his learning and accomplish ments ever procured him any thing better from this period than his labo- rious though honourable employment of teaching the ...
Page 108
... seems probable , that though Swift was in cone fidence of all that paffed at the weekly Club of Sixteen , where moft matters of State were concocted , and got his hints and materials from that Club , as well as from the private in ...
... seems probable , that though Swift was in cone fidence of all that paffed at the weekly Club of Sixteen , where moft matters of State were concocted , and got his hints and materials from that Club , as well as from the private in ...
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... seems to have been the public hall , where Abelard might have given his lectures ; for in the wall , on each fide , are fmall apertures , fo horizontal that it has strong appearances of bench- es , which never rife theatrically in these ...
... seems to have been the public hall , where Abelard might have given his lectures ; for in the wall , on each fide , are fmall apertures , fo horizontal that it has strong appearances of bench- es , which never rife theatrically in these ...
Page 163
... seems to fay , They are exquifite - they are a treasure for my friends - my friends may be obliged to me for fo fine a relish of literary delicacies . " Who , though he feel the filent emotion of contempt , would , in these ...
... seems to fay , They are exquifite - they are a treasure for my friends - my friends may be obliged to me for fo fine a relish of literary delicacies . " Who , though he feel the filent emotion of contempt , would , in these ...
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Page 313 - I had a letter from him a few days ago, wherein he tells me that my name was much oftener in the manuscript, but that the censor of books at Paris obliged him to strike it out.
Page 85 - I had now gained the point I aimed at : and saw, that his reason taught him (though he could not so express it) that what begins to be must have a cause, and that what is formed with regularity must have an intelligent cause. I therefore told him the name of the Great Being who made him and all the world ; concerning whose adorable nature I gave him such information as I thought he could in some measure comprehend. The lesson affected him greatly, and he never forgot either it, or the circumstance...
Page 113 - If this state of his country had been foretold to him, •would it not require all the sanguine credulity of youth, and all the fervid glow of enthusiasm, to make him believe it ? Fortunate man, he has lived to see it ! Fortunate indeed, if he lives to see nothing that shall vary the prospect, and cloud the setting of his day...
Page 85 - I carelessly, on coming to the place, I see it is so ; but there is nothing in this worth notice ; it is mere chance : and I went away. He followed me, and, taking hold of my coat, said, with some earnestness, It could not be mere chance ; for that somebody must have contrived matters so as to produce it.
Page 305 - I faw them {landing at the entrance of the fquare in front of the palace, each with his cap off, his hands being placed together elevated, and held even with his face. They remained upwards of half an hour in this attitude, their eyes fixed upon the apartment of the LAMA, and anxiety very vifibly depifted in their countenances.
Page 234 - Devonshire, on the Eve of the Epiphany, the farmer attended by his workmen, with a large pitcher of cyder, goes to the orchard, and there, encircling one of the best bearing trees, they drink the following toast three several times :
Page 30 - Her dancing was not hinder'd by the gout. Her poverty was glad; her heart content; Nor knew she what the spleen or vapours meant.
Page 225 - ... in India, confirmed what his fagacity had anticipated, that without principles to refer to, in a language familiar to the judges of the courts, adjudications...
Page 85 - Yes, said he, with firmness, I think so. Look at yourself, I replied, and consider your hands and fingers, your legs and feet, and other limbs; are they not regular in their appearance, and useful to you? He said, they were. Came you then hither, said I, by chance? No, he answered, that cannot be; something must have made me.
Page 377 - Lost, in which there is a nobleness both of contrivance and execution, that, though he affected to write in blank verse, without rhyme, and made many new and rough words...