Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 30John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele Leavitt, Throw and Company, 1853 - American periodicals |
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... replied with another . " The great idol " of Edinburgh , St. Giles , vanished off his perch in the rood - loft of the High Church , and , after a plunge in the North Loch , the next day was a heap of ashes . The offenders were not ...
... replied with another . " The great idol " of Edinburgh , St. Giles , vanished off his perch in the rood - loft of the High Church , and , after a plunge in the North Loch , the next day was a heap of ashes . The offenders were not ...
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... replied only to the com- plaints of the people , that she was sorry it was the child and not the father , " and she left the offending soldiers as the garrison of the town . Her falsehood was as imprudent as it was abominable . The two ...
... replied only to the com- plaints of the people , that she was sorry it was the child and not the father , " and she left the offending soldiers as the garrison of the town . Her falsehood was as imprudent as it was abominable . The two ...
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... replied , had not given them the means . ' " Then , you think subjects having power may resist their princes , ' she said . " If the princes exceed their bounds , madam , ' was his answer , and do against that wherefore they should be ...
... replied , had not given them the means . ' " Then , you think subjects having power may resist their princes , ' she said . " If the princes exceed their bounds , madam , ' was his answer , and do against that wherefore they should be ...
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... replied , that the arrange- which he has most carefully drawn : Felix ment or disarrangement of the furniture of a and Monsieur and Madame de Mortsauf , in room sometimes expresses the character of the " Lys dans la Vallée ; " the ...
... replied , that the arrange- which he has most carefully drawn : Felix ment or disarrangement of the furniture of a and Monsieur and Madame de Mortsauf , in room sometimes expresses the character of the " Lys dans la Vallée ; " the ...
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... replied that he wrote it in letters , has been accounted for in an introduction of perhaps because he had previously written a such length , that those who are not aware of novel in letters , which had proved a success ; the utility of ...
... replied that he wrote it in letters , has been accounted for in an introduction of perhaps because he had previously written a such length , that those who are not aware of novel in letters , which had proved a success ; the utility of ...
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Page 36 - I was born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreigner of Bremen who settled first at Hull.
Page 50 - The White Whale swam before him as the monomaniac incarnation of all those malicious agencies which some deep men feel eating in them, till they are left living on with half a heart and half a lung.
Page 364 - I trust hereby to make it manifest with what small willingness I endure to interrupt the pursuit of no less hopes than these, and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness fed with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, put from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies...
Page 525 - But where a book is at once both good and rare — where the individual is almost the species, and when that perishes, We know not where is that Promethean torch That can its light relumine, — such a book, for instance, as the Life of the Duke of Newcastle, by his Duchess — no casket is rich enough, no casing sufficiently durable, to honour and keep safe such a jewel.
Page 310 - Has taken for a swan rogue Southey's gander. John Keats, who was kill'd off by one critique, Just as he really promised something great, If not intelligible, without Greek Contrived to talk about the gods of late Much as they might have been supposed to speak. Poor fellow ! His was an untoward fate ; 'Tis strange the mind, that very fiery particle, Should let itself be snuff'd out by an article.
Page 310 - From its mysterious urn a sacred stream, In whose calm depth the beautiful and pure Alone are mirror'd ; which, though shapes of ill May hover round its surface, glides in light, And takes no shadow from them.
Page 151 - You think I love flattery (says Dr. Johnson), and so I do; but a little too much always disgusts me: that fellow Richardson, on the contrary, could not be contented to sail quietly down the stream of reputation, without longing to taste the froth from every stroke of the oar.
Page 11 - I neither fear nor eshame to say, is the most perfect school of Christ that ever was in the earth, since the days of the apostles. In other places I confess Christ to be truly preached ; but manners and religion so sincerely reformed, I have not yet seen in any other place beside...
Page 205 - Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining...
Page 87 - I hope the people of England will be satisfied ! I hope my country will do me justice!