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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... produce , in order to cast off the load of languor from the labouring vitals , and congratulate his own happy emancipa- tion from the thraldom of worldly service , by the only remedy which is fully effectual ; a remedy which Gibbon ...
... produce , in order to cast off the load of languor from the labouring vitals , and congratulate his own happy emancipa- tion from the thraldom of worldly service , by the only remedy which is fully effectual ; a remedy which Gibbon ...
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... produce a succession of well - turned and closely com- pacted periods , than a series of well - chosen and interesting ob- jects and events , all combining into one striking picture . The want of luminousness in this respect , not only ...
... produce a succession of well - turned and closely com- pacted periods , than a series of well - chosen and interesting ob- jects and events , all combining into one striking picture . The want of luminousness in this respect , not only ...
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... produce a degree of abstractedness from objects of customary interest , to introduce a fondness for speculation , and , in certain situations , to give a peculiarity to the mental character . Now , poetry , more than any other ...
... produce a degree of abstractedness from objects of customary interest , to introduce a fondness for speculation , and , in certain situations , to give a peculiarity to the mental character . Now , poetry , more than any other ...
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... produce . We shall now very briefly acquaint our readers with the nature of the poem which has excited these rather lengthened remarks . The Poem of the White Doe of Rylstone is founded on a local tradition , and on the Ballad in ...
... produce . We shall now very briefly acquaint our readers with the nature of the poem which has excited these rather lengthened remarks . The Poem of the White Doe of Rylstone is founded on a local tradition , and on the Ballad in ...
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... produce most ma- jestic effects upon the extended face of the earth ; but such is by no means the case . The frame of the picture is enlarged beyond all bounds , while the rivers , the forests , the villages , and the flocks , pre ...
... produce most ma- jestic effects upon the extended face of the earth ; but such is by no means the case . The frame of the picture is enlarged beyond all bounds , while the rivers , the forests , the villages , and the flocks , pre ...
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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...