The London Quarterly Review, Volume 4Theodore Foster, 1811 |
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... readers was in consequence so small , that literature never be- came a trade . There was therefore no occupation for that execra- ble race who , either in their own naked character as libellers , or under the assumed title of satirists ...
... readers was in consequence so small , that literature never be- came a trade . There was therefore no occupation for that execra- ble race who , either in their own naked character as libellers , or under the assumed title of satirists ...
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... readers as recollect the controversy which agitated the minds , and wrecked the patience , of the Edinburgh literati in 1805 , will not greatly wonder at this deviation from the usual courtesy of authors . Those who may not have heard ...
... readers as recollect the controversy which agitated the minds , and wrecked the patience , of the Edinburgh literati in 1805 , will not greatly wonder at this deviation from the usual courtesy of authors . Those who may not have heard ...
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... readers to wonder at the hardihood of the man who , after this ridiculous display , could complain of Euclid's de- finition of an angle as obscure and altogether defective , ' and add it is curious to observe the shifts to which the ...
... readers to wonder at the hardihood of the man who , after this ridiculous display , could complain of Euclid's de- finition of an angle as obscure and altogether defective , ' and add it is curious to observe the shifts to which the ...
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... readers , with respect to prop . 18 , ' In any triangle , the rhomboids described on two sides are together equivalent to a rhomboid described on the base , and limited by these and by parallels to the line which joins the vertex with ...
... readers , with respect to prop . 18 , ' In any triangle , the rhomboids described on two sides are together equivalent to a rhomboid described on the base , and limited by these and by parallels to the line which joins the vertex with ...
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... reader guess is the commanding emi- nence ' from which the fading limit of an unlimited horizon may be descried , and the contours of the distant amphitheatre surveyed ? What is this geometrical Pisgah from which the ma- thematician is ...
... reader guess is the commanding emi- nence ' from which the fading limit of an unlimited horizon may be descried , and the contours of the distant amphitheatre surveyed ? What is this geometrical Pisgah from which the ma- thematician is ...
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Página 162 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening
Página 168 - IN the hour of my distress, When temptations me oppress, And when I my sins confess, Sweet Spirit, comfort me ! When I lie within my bed, Sick in heart, and sick in head, And with doubts discomforted, Sweet Spirit, comfort me...
Página 283 - Enow of such, as for their bellies' sake Creep and intrude and climb into the fold ! Of other care they little reckoning make Than how to scramble at the shearers' feast, And shove away the worthy bidden guest. Blind mouths ! that scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook, or have...
Página 290 - Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilarate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid Nature. Mighty winds That sweep the skirt of some far-spreading wood Of ancient growth, make music not unlike The dash of ocean on his winding shore...
Página 290 - I care not, fortune, what you me deny ; You cannot rob me of free nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face, You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve : Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, And I their toys to the great children leave : Of fancy, reason, virtue, nought can me bereave.
Página 282 - On Mincio's banks, in Caesar's bounteous reign, If Tityrus found the golden age again, Must sleepy bards the flattering dream prolong, Mechanic echoes of the Mantuan song ? From Truth and Nature shall we widely stray, Where Virgil, not where fancy, leads the way ? Yes, thus the muses sing of happy swains, Because the muses never knew their pains : They boast their peasants...
Página 282 - THE Village Life, and every care that reigns O'er youthful peasants and declining swains ; What labour yields, and what, that labour past, Age, in its hour of languor, finds at last ; What form the real picture of the poor, Demand a song — the Muse can give no more. Fled are those times, when, in harmonious strains, The rustic poet praised his native plains : No shepherds now, in smooth alternate verse, Their country's beauty or .their nymphs...
Página 290 - Nor less composure waits upon the roar Of distant floods, or on the softer voice Of neighbouring fountain, or of rills that slip Through the cleft rock, and, chiming as they fall Upon loose pebbles, lose themselves at length In matted grass, that with a livelier green Betrays the secret of their silent course.
Página 308 - The lovers' meeting : she beheld him faint. With tender fears, she took a nearer view, Her terrors doubling as her hopes withdrew ; He tried to smile, and, half succeeding, said, " Yes! I must die ;
Página 491 - Lord's vineyard, it is needful you should do that part of the work which we advise, at those times and places which we judge most for His glory.