The Monthly Visitor, and Entertaining Pocket Companion, Volume 2H.D. Symonds, 1797 |
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Página 39
... feveral poems , which powerfully fpeak the inspiration of the mufe . UPON MR . GARRICK : BY THE LATE MR . MICKLE . Fair was the graceful form Prometheus made , Its front , the image of the God difplay'd : All heaven approv'd it , ere ...
... feveral poems , which powerfully fpeak the inspiration of the mufe . UPON MR . GARRICK : BY THE LATE MR . MICKLE . Fair was the graceful form Prometheus made , Its front , the image of the God difplay'd : All heaven approv'd it , ere ...
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... feveral of his fucceffors did in the reign of James I. Charles I. and James II .; at leaft , Richard piqued himfelf on his worthy ancestry in the north of Devon * while the correctness of this deduction is by no means quite obvious ...
... feveral of his fucceffors did in the reign of James I. Charles I. and James II .; at leaft , Richard piqued himfelf on his worthy ancestry in the north of Devon * while the correctness of this deduction is by no means quite obvious ...
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... feveral parts of his enquiry appear inconfiftent and fallacious . He has , in one place , introduced Cleopatra as a woman poffeffed of no great perfonal charms , and immediately after he introduces Des Cartes ' Admiration of Newton ...
... feveral parts of his enquiry appear inconfiftent and fallacious . He has , in one place , introduced Cleopatra as a woman poffeffed of no great perfonal charms , and immediately after he introduces Des Cartes ' Admiration of Newton ...
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... feveral beauties we have felected - their properties , and ef- fects ? By thofe effects will he diftinguish their pro- perties . On the calamities of Mrs. Smith , we wish not to intrude our remarks- " Time , fince we saw her laft , And ...
... feveral beauties we have felected - their properties , and ef- fects ? By thofe effects will he diftinguish their pro- perties . On the calamities of Mrs. Smith , we wish not to intrude our remarks- " Time , fince we saw her laft , And ...
Página 108
... feveral years , with the powers of eloquence , and the fervour of piety , to an audience always crowded , often overflowing . It would be unneceffary to enumerate , and in me prefumptuous to criticife the writings of this excellent and ...
... feveral years , with the powers of eloquence , and the fervour of piety , to an audience always crowded , often overflowing . It would be unneceffary to enumerate , and in me prefumptuous to criticife the writings of this excellent and ...
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Página 418 - Our political system is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world, and with the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory parts ; wherein, by the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race...
Página 418 - The institutions of policy, the goods of fortune, the gifts of Providence, are handed down to us, and from us in the same course and order. Our political system is placed in a just correspondence and symmetry with the order of the world, and with the mode of existence decreed to a permanent body composed of transitory, parts...
Página 421 - ... it is with infinite caution that any man ought to venture upon pulling down an edifice which has answered in any tolerable degree for ages the common purposes of society, or on building it up again, without having models and patterns of approved utility before his eyes.
Página 461 - If a great change is to be made in human affairs, the minds of men will be fitted to it ; the general opinions and feelings will draw that way. Every fear, every hope will forward it ; and then they who persist in opposing this mighty current in human affairs, will appear rather to resist the decrees of Providence itself, than the mere designs of men. They will not be resolute and firm, but perverse and obstinate...
Página 421 - The science of government being therefore so practical in itself, and intended for such practical purposes, a matter which requires experience, and even more experience than any person can gain in his whole life, however sagacious and...
Página 423 - Never, never more shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone...
Página 417 - You will observe, that from Magna Charta to the Declaration of Right, it has been the uniform policy of our constitution to claim and assert our liberties, as an entailed inheritance derived to us from our forefathers, and to be transmitted to our posterity ; as an estate specially belonging to the people of this kingdom, without any reference whatever to any other more general or prior right.
Página 39 - To paint fair Nature, by divine command, • Her magic pencil in his glowing hand, A Shakspeare rose: then, to expand his fame Wide o'er this breathing world, a Garrick came. Though sunk in death the forms the Poet drew, The Actor's genius bade them breathe anew; Though, like the bard himself, in night they lay, Immortal Garrick call'd them...
Página 88 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, When deep sleep falleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, Which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face ; The hair of my flesh stood up : It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: An image was before mine eyes, There was silence, and I heard a voice...
Página 461 - It has given me many anxious moments for the last two years. If a great change is to be made in human affairs, the minds of men will be fitted to it ; the general opinions and feelings will draw that way. Every fear, every hope will forward it ; and then they who persist...