The Eclectic Review, Volume 5; Volume 23Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood 1816 |
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... believe , none can write a good history , who does not excel in the art of telling a story . That Dr. Robertson possessed the latter talent in an eminent degree , is a well - known fact . And if our other two historians are not equally ...
... believe , none can write a good history , who does not excel in the art of telling a story . That Dr. Robertson possessed the latter talent in an eminent degree , is a well - known fact . And if our other two historians are not equally ...
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... believe whoever would boast of thoroughly understanding Gibbon , had need be himself no contemptible scholar . He seems never to have intended his work for the benefit of the profanum vulgus , but to have written chiefly for scholars ...
... believe whoever would boast of thoroughly understanding Gibbon , had need be himself no contemptible scholar . He seems never to have intended his work for the benefit of the profanum vulgus , but to have written chiefly for scholars ...
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... believe it will not easily be impugned , it may be rendered highly pro- bable , that this peculiarity is by no means incidental ; or , rather , that it has a close connexion with the historical qualifications of our three great writers ...
... believe it will not easily be impugned , it may be rendered highly pro- bable , that this peculiarity is by no means incidental ; or , rather , that it has a close connexion with the historical qualifications of our three great writers ...
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... believe the far greater part are a sort of Dramatic " Ode , consisting of dialogues between persons sustaining certain " characters . In these Dialogue - psalms the persons are frequently " the Psalmist himself , or the chorus of ...
... believe the far greater part are a sort of Dramatic " Ode , consisting of dialogues between persons sustaining certain " characters . In these Dialogue - psalms the persons are frequently " the Psalmist himself , or the chorus of ...
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... believe that an astronomical problem , though far enough from being itself a poetical production , may , by suggesting a train of sublime associations , become invested with a mysterious power of affecting the feelings in a way strictly ...
... believe that an astronomical problem , though far enough from being itself a poetical production , may , by suggesting a train of sublime associations , become invested with a mysterious power of affecting the feelings in a way strictly ...
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Page 432 - My Godfathers and Godmothers in my Baptism ; wherein I was made a member of Christ, the child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven.
Page 562 - Jesu, Maria, shield her well! She folded her arms beneath her cloak, And stole to the other side of the oak.
Page 349 - Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow ; which came up in a night, and perished in a night. And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than six score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand, and also much cattle ?
Page 564 - A snake's small eye blinks dull and shy, And the lady's eyes they shrunk in her head, Each shrunk up to a serpent's eye, And with somewhat of malice, and more of dread, At Christabel she looked askance!
Page 561 - Is the night chilly and dark ? The night is chilly, but not dark. The thin gray cloud is spread on high, It covers but not hides the sky. The moon is behind, and at the full; And yet she looks both small and dull. The night ,is chill, the cloud is gray : "Tis a month before the month of May, And the Spring comes slowly up this way.
Page 565 - So deeply had she drunken in That look, those shrunken serpent eyes, That all her features were resigned To this sole image in her mind: And passively did imitate That look of dull and treacherous hate!
Page 386 - But if any provide not for his own, and especially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
Page 267 - Out upon Time! it will leave no more Of the things to come than the things before ! Out upon Time! who for ever will leave But enough of the past for the future to grieve...
Page 426 - they are made members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the Kingdom of Heaven...
Page 561 - The thin gray cloud is spread on high, It covers but not hides the sky. The moon is behind, and at the full; And yet she looks both small and dull. The night is chill, the cloud is gray: 'Tis a month before the month of May, And the Spring comes slowly up this way. The lovely lady, Christabel...