The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 122A. Constable, 1865 |
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... better suited to Mr. Watson's powers than the Life of Porson was ; for the great Greek scholar demanded more animation than his biographer possesses : whereas the great Ishmaelite of the eighteenth century , whose hand was against all ...
... better suited to Mr. Watson's powers than the Life of Porson was ; for the great Greek scholar demanded more animation than his biographer possesses : whereas the great Ishmaelite of the eighteenth century , whose hand was against all ...
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... better than a curacy — a patron able and willing to advance him . Sir Richard Sutton , a Lincolnshire baronet , had wit or luck 6 enough to be employed as a diplomatist , and 1865 . 5 Watson's Life of Bishop Warburton .
... better than a curacy — a patron able and willing to advance him . Sir Richard Sutton , a Lincolnshire baronet , had wit or luck 6 enough to be employed as a diplomatist , and 1865 . 5 Watson's Life of Bishop Warburton .
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... better than those in verse because those in verse were as bad as they could be . He should be a book - hunter luckier and more keen - scenting than Monkbarn's hero , snuffy Davie ' himself , who could now find this volume on a stall ...
... better than those in verse because those in verse were as bad as they could be . He should be a book - hunter luckier and more keen - scenting than Monkbarn's hero , snuffy Davie ' himself , who could now find this volume on a stall ...
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... better than leading them to the tavern . It is not certain whether he ever resided at Greasely , which , indeed , he held little more than a year . In June , 1728 , Sir Robert Sutton presented Warburton with the living of Brant ...
... better than leading them to the tavern . It is not certain whether he ever resided at Greasely , which , indeed , he held little more than a year . In June , 1728 , Sir Robert Sutton presented Warburton with the living of Brant ...
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... better of an oppo- nent or appease his own hunger for praise . In private with his friends he was natural , easy , unpretending , as ready to listen as to talk , as willing to receive as to impart knowledge . In the family circle he was ...
... better of an oppo- nent or appease his own hunger for praise . In private with his friends he was natural , easy , unpretending , as ready to listen as to talk , as willing to receive as to impart knowledge . In the family circle he was ...
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Page 481 - If I beheld the sun when it shined, Or the moon walking in brightness ; And my heart hath been secretly enticed, Or my mouth hath kissed my hand : This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge : For I should have denied the God that is above.
Page 561 - Did wisely to conceal, and not divulge His secrets, to be scann'd by them who ought Rather admire...
Page 206 - Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time, with a gift of tears; Grief, with a glass that ran; Pleasure, with pain for leaven; Summer, with flowers that fell; Remembrance fallen from heaven, 320 And madness risen from hell; Strength without hands to smite; Love that endures for a breath: Night, the shadow of light, And life, the shadow of death.
Page 55 - Could we with ink the ocean fill, and were the skies of parchment made, Were every stalk on earth a quill, and every man a scribe by trade, To write the love of God above, would drain the ocean dry. Nor could the scroll contain the whole, though stretched from sky to sky, O love of God, how rich and pure!
Page 561 - Conjecture, he his fabric of the Heavens Hath left to their disputes, perhaps to move His laughter at their quaint opinions wide Hereafter, when they come to model Heaven And calculate the stars, how they will wield The mighty frame; how build, unbuild, contrive To save appearances; how gird the sphere With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb...
Page 204 - For the Thracian ships and the foreign faces, The tongueless vigil, and all the pain.
Page 119 - For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God.
Page 212 - Hath taken away to slay them: yea, and she, She the strange woman, she the flower, the sword, Red from spilt blood, a mortal flower to men, Adorable, detestable — even she Saw with strange eyes and with strange lips rejoiced, Seeing these mine own slain of mine own, and me Made miserable above all miseries made, A grief among all women in the world, A name to be washed out with all men's tears. CHORUS...
Page 208 - What hadst thou to do being born, Mother, when winds were at ease, As a flower of the springtime of corn, A flower of the foam of the seas? For bitter thou wast from thy birth, Aphrodite, a mother of strife; For before thee some rest was on earth, A little respite from tears, A little pleasure of life...
Page 207 - A time for labour and thought, A time to serve and to sin ; They gave him light in his ways, And love, and a space for delight, And beauty and length of days, And night, and sleep in the night. His speech is a burning fire ; With his lips he travaileth ; In his heart is a blind desire, In his eyes foreknowledge of death ; He weaves, and is clothed with derision ; Sows, and he shall not reap ; His life is a watch or a vision Between a sleep and a sleep.