The New Monthly Magazine and Literary JournalHenry Colburn and Company, 1832 |
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... classes of society . The little great world is sick of the eternal Reform , blasé with the cholera , and tired of the more novel horrors of the dissecting - room and the Italian Boy . But slowly , darkly , fearfully rolls the great ...
... classes of society . The little great world is sick of the eternal Reform , blasé with the cholera , and tired of the more novel horrors of the dissecting - room and the Italian Boy . But slowly , darkly , fearfully rolls the great ...
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... classes with whom the higher rarely come into contact , but which are gradu- ally generating that atmosphere of disease which shall ultimately equally endanger all , whether the inmates of the palace or the hovel . We look into those ...
... classes with whom the higher rarely come into contact , but which are gradu- ally generating that atmosphere of disease which shall ultimately equally endanger all , whether the inmates of the palace or the hovel . We look into those ...
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... classes , it does not answer to their conductors to write in a style , and upon subjects immediately interesting and attrac- tive to the poorer and the worse instructed . Now , in England , the poor will read - will be politicians ...
... classes , it does not answer to their conductors to write in a style , and upon subjects immediately interesting and attrac- tive to the poorer and the worse instructed . Now , in England , the poor will read - will be politicians ...
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... now , having doubled the last islands of Scot- land , to the north , we are steering for Spain , with a west - north - west wind . ITALIAN HUMOROUS POETRY . THE Italians have a class of Spanish Account of the Armada . 57.
... now , having doubled the last islands of Scot- land , to the north , we are steering for Spain , with a west - north - west wind . ITALIAN HUMOROUS POETRY . THE Italians have a class of Spanish Account of the Armada . 57.
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... class ; but they both , especially the latter , rather belong to the mock - heroic , of which we have not a few other examples , though none perhaps quite so good . It is evident that at the time Lord Ro- chester wrote his poem " Upon ...
... class ; but they both , especially the latter , rather belong to the mock - heroic , of which we have not a few other examples , though none perhaps quite so good . It is evident that at the time Lord Ro- chester wrote his poem " Upon ...
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Página 15 - Main reason to persuade immediate war Did not dissuade me most, and seem to cast Ominous conjecture on the whole success,* When he who most excels in fact of arms, In what he counsels and in what excels Mistrustful, grounds his courage on despair And utter dissolution, as the scope Of all his aim, after some dire revenge.
Página 127 - Thence what the lofty grave tragedians taught In chorus or iambic, teachers best Of moral prudence, with delight received In brief sententious precepts, while they treat Of fate, and chance, and change in human life, High actions, and high passions best describing : Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratic, Shook the arsenal, and fulmined over Greece To Macedon and Artaxerxes...
Página 67 - Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours. Where are they ? with the years beyond the flood. It is the signal that demands despatch. How much is to be done! My hopes and fears Start up alarmed, and o'er life's narrow verge Look down — on what ? a fathomless abyss !
Página 230 - Precipitously steep; and drawing near, There breathes a living fragrance from the shore, Of flowers yet fresh with childhood; on the ear Drops the light drip of the suspended oar, Or chirps the grasshopper one good-night carol more. ' He is an evening reveller, who makes His life an infancy, and sings his fill; At intervals, some bird from out the brakes, Starts into voice a moment, then is still.
Página 74 - I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in — glittering like the morning-star, full of life, and splendour, and joy.
Página 86 - ... through his locks unconsciously, so that it was singularly wild and rough. . . . His features were not symmetrical (the mouth, perhaps, excepted), yet was the effect of the whole extremely powerful. They breathed an animation, a fire, an enthusiasm, a vivid and preternatural intelligence that I never met with in any other countenance.
Página 118 - Afterwards, he retired to a more reserved and melancholy society, yet preserving his own natural cheerfulness and vivacity, and, above all, a flowing courtesy to all men...
Página 506 - What, then, is man ! What, then, is man ! He endures but for an hour, and is crushed before the moth. Yet in the being and in the working of a faithful man is there already (as all faith, from the beginning, gives assurance) a something that pertains not to this wild death-element of Time; that triumphs over Time, and is, and will be, when Time shall be no more.
Página 67 - Led softly, by the stillness of the night, Led like a murderer, (and such it proves !) Strays (wretched rover !) o'er the pleasing past ; In quest of wretchedness perversely strays ; And finds all desert now; and meets the ghosts Of my departed joys...
Página 490 - Both must be blamed, both pardon'd ; — 'twas just so " With Fox and Pitt full forty years ago ; " So Walpole, Pulteney ;— factions in all times, " Have had their follies, ministers their crimes." Give me the avow'd, the erect, the manly foe, Bold I can meet — perhaps may turn his blow ; But of all plagues, good heaven, thy wrath can send, Save, save, oh ! save me from the Candid Friend...