The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 33Leavitt, Trow, & Company, 1854 |
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... admiration ; and a certain uniformity of failure , like that which marks the career of Mary Queen of Scots , alone commands a general interest . It is not enough to have died tragically ; the wise and the unwise came too often to a ...
... admiration ; and a certain uniformity of failure , like that which marks the career of Mary Queen of Scots , alone commands a general interest . It is not enough to have died tragically ; the wise and the unwise came too often to a ...
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... admiration . But the prudent vigor of a powerful statesman was not a virtue which would recommend itself to an age which was agitated by the collision of two parties equally unreasoning : like only recognizes like , and for the years ...
... admiration . But the prudent vigor of a powerful statesman was not a virtue which would recommend itself to an age which was agitated by the collision of two parties equally unreasoning : like only recognizes like , and for the years ...
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... admirable government of Henry and his own noble qualities had been re- warded by the attached loyalty of the people . The Duke of Buckingham had conspired against him at home , and Richard de la Pole had for twenty years intrigued ...
... admirable government of Henry and his own noble qualities had been re- warded by the attached loyalty of the people . The Duke of Buckingham had conspired against him at home , and Richard de la Pole had for twenty years intrigued ...
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... admiration and the gratitude of the Catholic world . Yet we can neither be surprised at her refusal , nor can we blame her for it . She was a right noble woman ; but her nobleness was of the Spanish , not the English kind . Proud ...
... admiration and the gratitude of the Catholic world . Yet we can neither be surprised at her refusal , nor can we blame her for it . She was a right noble woman ; but her nobleness was of the Spanish , not the English kind . Proud ...
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... persons showed to- wards him at this trying time , called out the involuntary admiration of all parties ; and six weeks after , the Duke of Norfolk was sent ! Norris , he found no one to defend him 22 [ Sept. , CARDINAL WOLSEY .
... persons showed to- wards him at this trying time , called out the involuntary admiration of all parties ; and six weeks after , the Duke of Norfolk was sent ! Norris , he found no one to defend him 22 [ Sept. , CARDINAL WOLSEY .
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Página 76 - True wit is nature to advantage dress'd ; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd ; Something, whose truth convinc'd at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind.
Página 480 - We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow ! Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But little hell reck if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him...
Página 477 - You have just met the most unhappy man on earth; but on the subject of his wretchedness you must never ask a question.
Página 471 - Oh ! that you may have but so much regard for me left that this complaint may touch your soul with pity. I say as little as ever I can ; did you but know what I thought, I am sure it would move you to forgive me ; and believe I cannot help telling you. this and live.
Página 224 - At supper this night he talked of good eating with uncommon satisfaction. " Some people," said he, " have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind my belly very studiously, and very carefully ; for I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else.
Página 468 - Then he instructed a young nobleman, that the best poet in England was Mr. Pope (a Papist), who had begun a translation of Homer into English verse, for which he must have them all subscribe; 'for' says he, ' the author shall not begin to print till I have a thousand guineas for him.
Página 468 - Lord Treasurer, after leaving the Queen, came through the room, •beckoning Dr. Swift to follow him : both went off just before prayei's.
Página 376 - Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD.
Página 473 - Nor was a burden to mankind With half her course of years behind. You taught how I might youth prolong, By knowing what was right and wrong; How from my heart to bring supplies Of lustre to my fading eyes; How soon a beauteous mind repairs The loss of changed or falling hairs; How wit and virtue from within Send out a smoothness o'er the skin: Your lectures could my fancy fix, And I can please at thirty-six.
Página 382 - If I were a woman I would kiss as many of you as had beards that pleased me, complexions that liked me, and breaths that I defied not.