The Cabinet: Or, Monthly Report of Polite Literature, المجلد 4 |
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... learned in sciences , and therefore speaks properly on all subjects ; as he knew what to say , so also he knows when to leave off : a continence which is practised by few writers , and scarcely by any of the ancients ...
... learned in sciences , and therefore speaks properly on all subjects ; as he knew what to say , so also he knows when to leave off : a continence which is practised by few writers , and scarcely by any of the ancients ...
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The papers which were so found in the major's pocket - book , were in Arnold's hand - writing , and contained exact returns of the state of the forces , ordnance , and defences , ' at West Point and its dependencies , with the artillery ...
The papers which were so found in the major's pocket - book , were in Arnold's hand - writing , and contained exact returns of the state of the forces , ordnance , and defences , ' at West Point and its dependencies , with the artillery ...
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It is a common fault with writers of Legendary Tales , to mistake feebleness for simplicity , and Mr. Smith is answerable for this error in no trifling degree . If poetry , that is nothing more than bad prose , trite sentiments ...
It is a common fault with writers of Legendary Tales , to mistake feebleness for simplicity , and Mr. Smith is answerable for this error in no trifling degree . If poetry , that is nothing more than bad prose , trite sentiments ...
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... overpowered with the splendor of his milia tary glory , our attention is entirely diverted from his moral depravity : Let us now consider in what way this general failing in human nature , is taken advantage of by Dramatic writers .
... overpowered with the splendor of his milia tary glory , our attention is entirely diverted from his moral depravity : Let us now consider in what way this general failing in human nature , is taken advantage of by Dramatic writers .
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And he further told the writer of this account , that in the second season above - mentioned , his annual charges , op different engagements , exceeded 11,0001 . - With the public , such as we find it , there is no surer hope than the ...
And he further told the writer of this account , that in the second season above - mentioned , his annual charges , op different engagements , exceeded 11,0001 . - With the public , such as we find it , there is no surer hope than the ...
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الصفحة 168 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any. He was (indeed) honest, and of an open and free nature; had an excellent phantasy, brave notions, and gentle expressions...
الصفحة 36 - O, woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow A ministering angel thou...
الصفحة 36 - Let Stanley charge with spur of fire — With Chester charge, and Lancashire, Full upon Scotland's central host, Or victory and England's lost. Must I bid twice ? Hence, varlets ! fly ! Leave Marmion here alone — to die.
الصفحة 168 - Now of time they are much more liberal; for ordinary it is, that two young princes fall in love: after many traverses she is got with child: delivered of a fair boy: he is lost, groweth a man, falleth in love, and is ready to get another child; and all this in two hours...
الصفحة 168 - If there be never a servant monster in the fair, who can help it, he says, nor a nest of antiques ? he is loth to make nature afraid in his plays, like those that beget tales, tempests, and such like drolleries...
الصفحة 35 - For talents mourn, untimely lost, When best employ'd, and wanted most ; Mourn genius high, and lore profound, And wit that loved to play, not wound ; And all the reasoning powers divine, To penetrate, resolve, combine ; And feelings keen, and fancy's glow, — They sleep with him who sleeps below...
الصفحة 35 - Where — taming thought to human pride ! — The mighty chiefs sleep side by side. Drop upon Fox's grave the tear, 'Twill trickle to his rival's bier ; O'er PITT'S the mournful requiem sound, And Fox's shall the notes rebound. The solemn echo seems to cry, — " Here let their discord with them die : Speak not for those a separate doom, Whom Fate made Brothers in the tomb ; But search the land of living men, Where wilt thou find their like agen...
الصفحة 33 - NOVEMBER'S sky is chill and drear, November's leaf is red and sear : Late, gazing down the steepy linn, That hems our little garden in, Low in its dark and narrow glen, You scarce the rivulet might ken, So thick the tangled greenwood grew, So feeble trill'd the streamlet through : Now, murmuring hoarse, and frequent seen, Through bush and brier, no longer green, An angry brook, it sweeps the glade, Brawls over rock and wild cascade, And, foaming brown with doubled speed, * Hurries its waters to the...
الصفحة 6 - Tis not, as heads that never ache suppose, Forgery of fancy and a dream of woes ; Man is a harp whose chords elude the sight, Each yielding harmony, disposed aright, The screws reversed, (a task which if he please God in a moment executes with ease,) Ten thousand thousand strings at once go loose, Lost, till he tune them, all their power and use.
الصفحة 166 - To draw no envy, Shakespeare, on thy name, Am I thus ample to thy book and fame, While I confess thy writings to be such As neither man nor muse can praise too much.