The Eclectic Museum of Foreign Literature, Science and Art, 1. kötetJohn Holmes Agnew, Eliakim Littell E. Littell, 1843 |
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3. oldal
... of which we are particu- wanting , without which , in the hour of trial , larly anxious to effect . all the others are but as tinkling brass — a " to see . belief in God , a sense of 1843. ] 3 ALISON'S HISTORY OF EUROPE .
... of which we are particu- wanting , without which , in the hour of trial , larly anxious to effect . all the others are but as tinkling brass — a " to see . belief in God , a sense of 1843. ] 3 ALISON'S HISTORY OF EUROPE .
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... effect . principal blemishes in his style . And it is impossible to deny , that when he gives the rein to his fancy , it occasionally hurries him across the fatal step which separates the sublime , we will not say from the ridi- culous ...
... effect . principal blemishes in his style . And it is impossible to deny , that when he gives the rein to his fancy , it occasionally hurries him across the fatal step which separates the sublime , we will not say from the ridi- culous ...
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... effect ; and because they can be upon those of the whole narrative part of far more imposingly supplied by the imagi ... effects . Thucydides has never riod . He has , as he informs us , made it once throughout his work departed from his ...
... effect ; and because they can be upon those of the whole narrative part of far more imposingly supplied by the imagi ... effects . Thucydides has never riod . He has , as he informs us , made it once throughout his work departed from his ...
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... effect , and in the end produced evils far greater than those they were intended to remove . It would seem , ' he adds , ' as if , at partic- ular periods , from causes inscrutable to human wisdom , an universal frenzy seizes mankind ...
... effect , and in the end produced evils far greater than those they were intended to remove . It would seem , ' he adds , ' as if , at partic- ular periods , from causes inscrutable to human wisdom , an universal frenzy seizes mankind ...
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... effect in exciting or restraining popular revenge . We need not remind our readers of the va- rious unhappy coincidences which com- bined to increase the natural resentment of Our limits will not permit us to discuss the French nation ...
... effect in exciting or restraining popular revenge . We need not remind our readers of the va- rious unhappy coincidences which com- bined to increase the natural resentment of Our limits will not permit us to discuss the French nation ...
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477. oldal - ... godliness hath promise of the life that now is," as well as of that which is to come.
206. oldal - Back darted Spurius Lartius; Herminius darted back: And, as they passed, beneath their feet They felt the timbers crack. But when they turned their faces, And on the farther shore Saw brave Horatius stand alone, They would have crossed once more.
207. oldal - Curse on him!" quoth false Sextus; "Will not the villain drown? But for this stay, ere close of day We should have sacked the town ! " "Heaven help him!" quoth Lars Porsena. "And bring him safe to shore; For such a gallant feat of arms Was never seen before.
403. oldal - And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey.
448. oldal - All those whom we have been accustomed to revere as Intellectual patriarchs, seemed children when compared with her; for Burke had sat up all night to read her writings, and Johnson had pronounced her superior to Fielding, when Rogers was still a schoolboy, and Southey still in petticoats.
119. oldal - ... silent heart, and where thy smiles have been ! While e'en thy chill bleak corse I have, thou seemest still mine own ; But there, I lay thee in thy grave — and I am now alone ! I do not think, where'er thou art, thou hast forgotten me ; And I, perhaps, may soothe this heart, in thinking, too, of thee : Yet there was round thee such a dawn of light ne'er seen before, As Fancy never could have drawn, and never can restore 1 7o.—GO, FORGET MB.—lTo^s.
207. oldal - And still his name sounds stirring Unto the men of Rome As the trumpet-blast that cries to them To charge the Volscian home, And wives still pray to Juno For boys with hearts as bold As his who kept the bridge so well In the brave days of old.
174. oldal - The tribute due To him, and aught that hides his clay From mortal view. Fresh as the flower, whose modest worth He sang, his genius "glinted...
207. oldal - No sound of joy or sorrow Was heard from either bank; But friends and foes, in dumb surprise, With parted lips and straining eyes, Stood gazing where he sank; And when above the surges They saw his crest appear. All Rome sent forth a rapturous cry, And even the ranks of Tuscany Could scarce forbear to cheer.
172. oldal - Action is transitory — a step, a blow, The motion of a muscle — this way or that — 'Tis done, and in the after vacancy We wonder at ourselves like men betrayed : Suffering is permanent, obscure, and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.