The Downside magazine and monthly miscellany1844 |
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... Correspondents On Dit 87 1 10 100 , 116 , 150 19 , 34 42 54 , 70 128 16 17 107 16 , 32 , 112 , 128 , 160 104 On the Study of Nature 38 Our New Year 97 Our Prospects 113 Practice makes perfect 37 Proportion and its Definition 123 , 157 ...
... Correspondents On Dit 87 1 10 100 , 116 , 150 19 , 34 42 54 , 70 128 16 17 107 16 , 32 , 112 , 128 , 160 104 On the Study of Nature 38 Our New Year 97 Our Prospects 113 Practice makes perfect 37 Proportion and its Definition 123 , 157 ...
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... not agree with our talented correspondent's denunciation of criticism . To judicious and well - meant criticism , as calcu- lated to improve our style , we are by no means averse . Ed . ) B AN ESSAY ON THE LUDICROUS . We are fully aware 9.
... not agree with our talented correspondent's denunciation of criticism . To judicious and well - meant criticism , as calcu- lated to improve our style , we are by no means averse . Ed . ) B AN ESSAY ON THE LUDICROUS . We are fully aware 9.
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... CORRESPONDENTS . We have received some good verses signed " W. Constant- reader , ” and we should have inserted them , had we not con- siderable doubts as to their originality . If this gentleman will satisfy us on that point , we will ...
... CORRESPONDENTS . We have received some good verses signed " W. Constant- reader , ” and we should have inserted them , had we not con- siderable doubts as to their originality . If this gentleman will satisfy us on that point , we will ...
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... Correspondent , COLEMAN PERCY . ( We have received the above letter from the author of the " Moonlight Struggle ... CORRESPONDENTS . We gratefully acknowledge the receipt of the communica- tions of " An Enthusiastic Admirer ; " K ; " " C ...
... Correspondent , COLEMAN PERCY . ( We have received the above letter from the author of the " Moonlight Struggle ... CORRESPONDENTS . We gratefully acknowledge the receipt of the communica- tions of " An Enthusiastic Admirer ; " K ; " " C ...
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... correspondent is one of those mo- dern philosophers , who like Rousseau , are ready enough at their pens , and skilful enough in planning theories , but who would be very unwilling to carry out their principles to their full and ...
... correspondent is one of those mo- dern philosophers , who like Rousseau , are ready enough at their pens , and skilful enough in planning theories , but who would be very unwilling to carry out their principles to their full and ...
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Page 140 - The' awaken'd throb for virtue, and for fame ; The sympathies of love, and friendship dear : With all the social offspring of the heart.
Page 117 - In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Page 139 - He comes ! he comes ! in every breeze the power Of philosophic melancholy comes ! His near approach the sudden-starting tear. The glowing cheek, the mild dejected air, The soften'd feature, and the beating heart, Pierc'd deep with many a virtuous pang, declare.
Page 4 - LITTLE Jack Horner sat in the corner Eating a Christmas pie; He put in his thumb, and pulled out a plum, And said, "What a good boy am I!
Page 63 - ... tale, — * When he saw the morning mists depart From the summits grey and pale : — For he knew that the fan-palm cast the shade Of its ever-glorious green Where the love of his blasted youth was laid, And the light of her steps had been. Ah ! thus, for ever, the heart looks back To its young hope's funeral urn : — To the tender green of that early track, To its light, let us return ! The lines of our life may be smooth and strong, — And our pleasant path may lie Where the stream of affection...
Page 65 - Qui fit, Maecenas, ut nemo, quam sibi sortem seu ratio dederit seu fors obiecerit, illa contentus vivat, laudet diversa sequentes...
Page 113 - A greater magnitude is said to be a multiple of a less, when the greater is measured by the less, that is, 'when the greater contains the less a certain number of times exactly.' III. Ratio is a mutual relation of two magnitudes of the same kind to one another, in respect of quantity.
Page 154 - From wealthy abbots' chests, and churls' abundant store, What oftentimes he took he shared amongst the poor: No lordly bishop came in lusty Robin's way, To him before he went, but for his pass must pay.
Page 38 - Happy the man, who, studying nature's laws, Through known effects can trace the secret cause — His mind possessing in a quiet state, Fearless of Fortune, and resigned to Fate!
Page 139 - O'er all the soul his sacred influence breathes ! Inflames imagination ; through the breast Infuses every tenderness ; and far Beyond dim earth exalts the swelling thought. Ten thousand thousand fleet ideas, such As never mingled with the vulgar dream, Crowd fast into the mind's creative eye. As fast the correspondent passions rise, As varied and as high : Devotion...