The Critical Review: Or, Annals of LiteratureW. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1812 |
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... character of Socrates and that of Christ . Increasing his usefuluess without diminishing his dignity , SOCRATES associated with the lost sheep of the gentile flock ; even with courtezans , libertines , and sophists , and by expedients ...
... character of Socrates and that of Christ . Increasing his usefuluess without diminishing his dignity , SOCRATES associated with the lost sheep of the gentile flock ; even with courtezans , libertines , and sophists , and by expedients ...
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... character of the Earl Altamont . His lordship had succeeded to the title and estates of his brother in the thirtieth year of his age ; and had he continued a younger brother , the mediocrity of his talents would never have distinguished ...
... character of the Earl Altamont . His lordship had succeeded to the title and estates of his brother in the thirtieth year of his age ; and had he continued a younger brother , the mediocrity of his talents would never have distinguished ...
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... character in St. Stephen's Chaple , wins his heart by so doing , and his daughter at the same time . And so they are married and live a pattern of conjugal feli- city to all the country round about . Amongst the characters which Mr ...
... character in St. Stephen's Chaple , wins his heart by so doing , and his daughter at the same time . And so they are married and live a pattern of conjugal feli- city to all the country round about . Amongst the characters which Mr ...
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... character ; it mars the whole work , let it be ever so good . Mr. Card has made a sensible book , if he has not made an amusing one ; and , with a little more knowledge of character , we have no doubt , that in his next ( for he must ...
... character ; it mars the whole work , let it be ever so good . Mr. Card has made a sensible book , if he has not made an amusing one ; and , with a little more knowledge of character , we have no doubt , that in his next ( for he must ...
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... character . He is patient under the inconveniences of new habits , and extraordinary privations . We hear from him no whinings about scanty food and bad accommodations ; no disgusting egotisms ; no exaggerated representations of ...
... character . He is patient under the inconveniences of new habits , and extraordinary privations . We hear from him no whinings about scanty food and bad accommodations ; no disgusting egotisms ; no exaggerated representations of ...
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Seite 555 - But midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, And roam along, the world's tired denizen, With none who bless us, none whom we can bless ; Minions of splendour shrinking from distress ! None that, with kindred consciousness endued, If we were not, would seem to smile the less, Of all that flatter'd, follow'd, sought, and sued ; This is to be alone ; this, this is solitude ! XXVII.
Seite 200 - I believe them true : They argue no corrupted mind In him : the fault is in mankind. This maxim, more than all the rest, Is thought too base for human breast : " In all distresses of our friends, We first consult our private ends ; While nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please us.
Seite 555 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean; This is not solitude; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd.
Seite 330 - To promote a woman to bear rule, superiority, dominion or empire above any realm, nation, or city is repugnant to nature, contumely to God, a thing most contrarious to His revealed will and approved ordinance, and finally it is the subversion of good order, of all equity and justice.
Seite 272 - Christ did truly rise again from death, and took again his body, with flesh, bones, and all things appertaining to the perfection of Man's nature; wherewith he ascended into Heaven, and there sitteth, until he return to judge all Men at the last day.
Seite 337 - The doctor rose up, and Kinyeancleugh sat down before his bed. About eleven o'clock, he gave a deep sigh, and said, " Now it is come." Bannatyne immediately drew near, and desired him to think upon those comfortable promises of our Saviour Jesus Christ, which he had so often declared to others ; and, perceiving that he was speechless, requested him to give them a sign that he heard them, and died in peace. Upon this he lifted up one of his hands, and, sighing twice, expired without a struggle...
Seite 383 - If I possess any talent, it is that of darkening the gloomy, and of deepening the .sad; of painting life in extremes, and representing those struggles of passion when the soul trembles on the verge of the unlawful and the unhallowed.
Seite 549 - Maidens, like moths, are ever caught by glare, And Mammon wins his way where Seraphs might despair.
Seite 327 - the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishops of Rochester, Ely, St. David's, Lincoln, and Bath, were sincerely bent on advancing the purity of doctrine, agreeing IN ALL THINGS with the Helvetic churches,
Seite 452 - that we were ready to make all that were consistent with honesty and conscience ;' but many things might have been said upon that subject, which I did not then think proper to mention. ' However,' said I,