The Analectic Magazine...: Comprising Original Reviews, Biography, Analytical Abstracts of New Publications, Volume 8Published and sold by Moses Thomas, 1816 |
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... natural world , the little inequalities and deformities of the object , are lost in the beauty of the general outline . It ... nature bestows on her children in every age and every clime . We question much , therefore , whether it is not ...
... natural world , the little inequalities and deformities of the object , are lost in the beauty of the general outline . It ... nature bestows on her children in every age and every clime . We question much , therefore , whether it is not ...
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... nature intended they should figure . The former seldom better their situation , because the same want of pru- dence generally produces the same effects in every situation ; but the latter , relying on their own vigour of mind , often ...
... nature intended they should figure . The former seldom better their situation , because the same want of pru- dence generally produces the same effects in every situation ; but the latter , relying on their own vigour of mind , often ...
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... nature of which is not ex- actly settled in the code of morality . If , in its original and pure simplicity , authority was instituted solely for the happi- ness of mankind , it would seem to follow , that when it fails in securing that ...
... nature of which is not ex- actly settled in the code of morality . If , in its original and pure simplicity , authority was instituted solely for the happi- ness of mankind , it would seem to follow , that when it fails in securing that ...
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... nature or education ; or founded on the immutable . basis of right , we confess it is a great favourite with us . Like the attachment we bear to our parents , our brothers , or our friends , it may be undeserved , or it may be the mere ...
... nature or education ; or founded on the immutable . basis of right , we confess it is a great favourite with us . Like the attachment we bear to our parents , our brothers , or our friends , it may be undeserved , or it may be the mere ...
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... nature in its utmost pu- rity or exaltation . While his example tended to reform the licentious abuses of his art , it also contributed powerfully to overcome the absurd and humiliating prejudice which had so long pre- vailed , that ...
... nature in its utmost pu- rity or exaltation . While his example tended to reform the licentious abuses of his art , it also contributed powerfully to overcome the absurd and humiliating prejudice which had so long pre- vailed , that ...
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Page 82 - Warwick; his father was a butcher, and I have been told heretofore by some of the neighbours that, when he was a boy, he exercised his father's trade; but when he killed a calf, he would do it in a high style and make a speech.
Page 42 - Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb? When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a...
Page 524 - While Powers of mind almost of boundless range, Complete in kind — as various in their change, While Eloquence — Wit — Poesy— and Mirth, That humbler Harmonist of care on Earth, Survive within our souls — while lives our sense Of pride in Merit's proud pre-eminence, Long shall we seek his likeness— long in vain, And turn to all of him which may remain, Sighing that Nature form'd but one such man, And broke the die — in moulding Sheridan ! NOTES MONODY ON THE DEATH OF SHERIDAN.
Page 268 - TRANSACTIONS of the Society instituted at London for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, with the Premiums offered in the year 1783.
Page 42 - When he prepared the heavens, I was there; when he set a compass upon the face of the depth...
Page 246 - This world is all a fleeting show For man's illusion given ; The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, Deceitful shine, deceitful flow, — There's nothing true but Heaven...
Page 55 - ... tis a morn of May Round old Ravenna's clear-shown towers and bay. A morn, the loveliest which the year has seen, Last of the spring, yet fresh with all its green; For a warm eve, and gentle rains at night Have left a sparkling welcome for the light, And there's a crystal clearness all about; The leaves are sharp, the distant hills look out; A balmy briskness comes upon the breeze; The smoke goes dancing from the cottage trees; And when you listen, you may hear a coil Of bubbling springs about...
Page 104 - With head up-raised, and look intent, And eye and ear attentive bent, And locks flung back, and lips apart, Like monument of Grecian art, In listening mood, she seemed to stand The guardian Naiad of the strand.
Page 41 - Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?