The Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle, Volume 1, Issues 63-92W. Lewer, 1829 |
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... perhaps , in the majority of cases , is ill enough discharged . But all the temptations into which the editor of an ordinary journal is liable to fall , -such as the temptation of allowing a clever contributor to work some unprofitable ...
... perhaps , in the majority of cases , is ill enough discharged . But all the temptations into which the editor of an ordinary journal is liable to fall , -such as the temptation of allowing a clever contributor to work some unprofitable ...
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... perhaps two hundred members . Tables with candles stand in the centre , and the orators are generally congregated near them . After some minutes spent in private business , the President announces , that the question for this evening's ...
... perhaps two hundred members . Tables with candles stand in the centre , and the orators are generally congregated near them . After some minutes spent in private business , the President announces , that the question for this evening's ...
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... perhaps , had refused to emigrate , from an obstinate attachment to the soil of their birth , while others had lingered in hope till they had not strength to move , might be seen hovering round their dismantled dwellings in different ...
... perhaps , had refused to emigrate , from an obstinate attachment to the soil of their birth , while others had lingered in hope till they had not strength to move , might be seen hovering round their dismantled dwellings in different ...
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... perhaps it may be for the last time . We are separated by distance of place , and still more so by the cessation of a correspondence which gave me at least infinite pleasure and inestima- ble benefit . As I can no longer hope to receive ...
... perhaps it may be for the last time . We are separated by distance of place , and still more so by the cessation of a correspondence which gave me at least infinite pleasure and inestima- ble benefit . As I can no longer hope to receive ...
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... perhaps , rather to say disciple and phi- these stood in the relation of pupil and preceptor ensued between these gentlemen , as far as I can recollect it , I here transmit to you . Philosopher I - Well , child , what do the public say ...
... perhaps , rather to say disciple and phi- these stood in the relation of pupil and preceptor ensued between these gentlemen , as far as I can recollect it , I here transmit to you . Philosopher I - Well , child , what do the public say ...
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Page 25 - Dost in these lines their artless tale relate; If chance, by lonely contemplation led, Some kindred spirit shall inquire thy fate, Haply some hoary-headed swain may say, "Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn Brushing with hasty steps the dews away To meet the sun upon the upland lawn.
Page 29 - Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me ! You would play upon me ; you would seem to know my stops ; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery ; you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass : and there is much music, excellent voice, in this little organ ; yet cannot you make it speak. 'Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe ? Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.
Page 159 - But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover! A savage place! as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover!
Page 145 - O mistress mine, where are you roaming ? O, stay and hear ; your true love's coming, That can sing both high and low : Trip no further, pretty sweeting ; Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know.
Page 143 - I do not know what I may appear to the world ; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Page 179 - ... the part of the reader; from the rapid flow, the quick change, and the playful nature of the thoughts and images; and, above all, from the alienation, and, if I may hazard such an expression, the utter aloofness of the poet's own feelings from those of which he is at once the painter and the analyst; that, though the very subject cannot but detract from the pleasure of a delicate mind, yet never was poem less dangerous on a moral account.
Page 159 - Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail, Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail: And mid these dancing rocks at once and ever It flung up momently the sacred river. Five miles meandering with a mazy motion. Through wood and dale the sacred river ran, Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean: And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far Ancestral voices prophesying war...
Page 159 - Columbia, laborer, not having the fear of God before his eyes, but being moved and seduced by the instigation of the devil...
Page 145 - tis not hereafter; Present mirth hath present laughter; What's to come is still unsure: In delay there lies no plenty; Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty, Youth's a stuff will not endure. 202 Sir And. A mellifluous voice, as I am true knight. Sir To. A contagious breath. Sir And. Very sweet and contagious, i
Page 87 - For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.