The London Magazine, Volume 10Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1824 |
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... PLAYING : Banquo's Spirit brought to Book OPIUM - EATER . No. V. Superficial Knowledge Manuscripst of Melmoth ON Oxford . ....... Sonnet on Time . The Cuckoo ; a Scottish Song . By Allan Cunningham ... ......... REVIEW : -Captain ...
... PLAYING : Banquo's Spirit brought to Book OPIUM - EATER . No. V. Superficial Knowledge Manuscripst of Melmoth ON Oxford . ....... Sonnet on Time . The Cuckoo ; a Scottish Song . By Allan Cunningham ... ......... REVIEW : -Captain ...
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... play , she began a kind of fantastic dance ; and as her nimble fairy feet twinkled on the green turf , and her thin garb floated on her shoulders like wings , I thought the veritable Ariel swam be- fore my sight . Fondly tantalizing her ...
... play , she began a kind of fantastic dance ; and as her nimble fairy feet twinkled on the green turf , and her thin garb floated on her shoulders like wings , I thought the veritable Ariel swam be- fore my sight . Fondly tantalizing her ...
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... play to that deep medita- tive enthusiasm which forms so im- portant a feature in their character . Kant's philosophy accordingly found numerous disciples , and possessed them with a zeal unexampled since the days of Pythagoras . This ...
... play to that deep medita- tive enthusiasm which forms so im- portant a feature in their character . Kant's philosophy accordingly found numerous disciples , and possessed them with a zeal unexampled since the days of Pythagoras . This ...
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... play of inspiration , and my fancy , knowing she is not without witnesses of her movements , no longer moves with equal freedom . I hope , however , ultimately to advance so far that art will become a second nature , as polite manners ...
... play of inspiration , and my fancy , knowing she is not without witnesses of her movements , no longer moves with equal freedom . I hope , however , ultimately to advance so far that art will become a second nature , as polite manners ...
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... play in these light fetters ! What attractions might the epic substance gain by the soft yielding form of this fine rhyme ! For the poem must not in name only , but in very deed , be capable of being sung ; as the Iliad was sung by the ...
... play in these light fetters ! What attractions might the epic substance gain by the soft yielding form of this fine rhyme ! For the poem must not in name only , but in very deed , be capable of being sung ; as the Iliad was sung by the ...
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Page 491 - Hast thou given the horse strength ? hast thou clothed his neck with thunder ? Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper ? the glory of his nostrils is terrible. He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength ; he goeth on to meet the armed men. He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted ; neither turneth he back from the sword.
Page 78 - Hear, nature, hear ; dear goddess, hear ! Suspend thy purpose, if thou didst intend To make this creature fruitful ! Into her womb convey sterility ! Dry up in her the organs of increase ; And from her derogate body never spring A babe to honour her ! If she must teem, Create her child of spleen ; that it may live And be a thwart disnatured torment to her...
Page 32 - Great in the earth, as in the ethereal frame; Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees; Lives through all life, extends through all extent; Spreads undivided, operates unspent!
Page 79 - Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these ? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this ! Take physic, pomp ; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them, And show the heavens more just.
Page 222 - Incognitus of my infancy. Variegated views, extensive prospects — and those at no great distance from the house — I was told of such — what were they to me, being out of the boundaries of my Eden ? — So far from a wish to roam, I would have drawn, methought, still closer the fences of my chosen prison ; and have been hemmed in by a yet securer cincture of those excluding garden walls. I could have exclaimed with that garden-loving poet — Bind me, ye woodbines, in your 'twines, Curl me about,...
Page 494 - And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of" bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink.
Page 26 - The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil : yea, it is even he that shall keep thy soul. 8 The LORD shall preserve thy going out, and thy coming in : from this time forth for evermore.
Page 516 - If it be for thy glory, I beseech thee give me some sign from heaven; if not, I shall suppress it.
Page 80 - Why, thou wert better in thy grave than to answer with thy uncovered body this extremity of the skies. Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou owest the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume.
Page 28 - WEEP with me, all you that read This little story; And know, for whom a tear you shed Death's self is sorry. 'Twas a child that so did thrive In grace and feature, As Heaven and Nature seemed to strive Which owned the creature.