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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... interest of its subject , from its being a national It is a history of England . The continuity of the scene on which the various events take place , is the principal bond by which they are linked together . one . It would be mere waste ...
... interest of its subject , from its being a national It is a history of England . The continuity of the scene on which the various events take place , is the principal bond by which they are linked together . one . It would be mere waste ...
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... exert this magical power over the imagination of his hearer ? The truth of the nar- rative , together with some degree of inherent interest , being pre - supposed , it is the liveliness with which 6 Gibbon's Miscellaneous Works .
... exert this magical power over the imagination of his hearer ? The truth of the nar- rative , together with some degree of inherent interest , being pre - supposed , it is the liveliness with which 6 Gibbon's Miscellaneous Works .
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... interest his hearers in what he is relating , must himself feel a warm interest in what he relates ; and , either as an immediate consequence of this in- terest , or by the help of previous reflection , have all the cir- cumstances of ...
... interest his hearers in what he is relating , must himself feel a warm interest in what he relates ; and , either as an immediate consequence of this in- terest , or by the help of previous reflection , have all the cir- cumstances of ...
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... interest to other parts , we would not venture to assert ; he has himself confessed , what every reader will per- ceive , that the times of Honorius and his successors , do not fix the attention , like those for instance of Constantine ...
... interest to other parts , we would not venture to assert ; he has himself confessed , what every reader will per- ceive , that the times of Honorius and his successors , do not fix the attention , like those for instance of Constantine ...
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... interest of that important reign . But in what may more properly be called historical painting , he is not equally happy . Rarely does he present to us those affecting pictures , in which a whole train of action seems to pass before our ...
... interest of that important reign . But in what may more properly be called historical painting , he is not equally happy . Rarely does he present to us those affecting pictures , in which a whole train of action seems to pass before our ...
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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...