Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, Etc, Part 1William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, Frederick Arnold, John Morley, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin H. Colburn, 1817 |
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... mind in all contests for superiority , the spirit of gain adds nent features in the future proceedings of this dignified its less scrupulous and more powerful influence . When assembly , and to notice the works of the artists in the the ...
... mind in all contests for superiority , the spirit of gain adds nent features in the future proceedings of this dignified its less scrupulous and more powerful influence . When assembly , and to notice the works of the artists in the the ...
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... mind , enabled him to throw a tremend- with even no higher mental powers or feelings , a superior ous depth of expression into characters of a plotting , guil- organ of effect . ty , and ferocious cast . With these unenviable requisites ...
... mind , enabled him to throw a tremend- with even no higher mental powers or feelings , a superior ous depth of expression into characters of a plotting , guil- organ of effect . ty , and ferocious cast . With these unenviable requisites ...
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... mind all prejudice and prepossession , to reconsider his subject with the most careful attention , and to feel in giving his decision , that to preserve the most rigorous impartiality is the bounden duty of an Historian . MAN the ...
... mind all prejudice and prepossession , to reconsider his subject with the most careful attention , and to feel in giving his decision , that to preserve the most rigorous impartiality is the bounden duty of an Historian . MAN the ...
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... mind , through a long life , the extreme par- tiality which he always felt and expressed for his native spot . Of that partiality several interesting proofs are given in the letters before us , and cannot fail to afford pleasure to a ...
... mind , through a long life , the extreme par- tiality which he always felt and expressed for his native spot . Of that partiality several interesting proofs are given in the letters before us , and cannot fail to afford pleasure to a ...
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... mind of the young Count . He Of all the tragedies which have been brought of late years saves the life of Carlos at a bull - figlit , at the risk of his own . upon the German stage , none has excited so much interest as But jealousy ...
... mind of the young Count . He Of all the tragedies which have been brought of late years saves the life of Carlos at a bull - figlit , at the risk of his own . upon the German stage , none has excited so much interest as But jealousy ...
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Page 86 - I know my course. The spirit that I have seen May be the devil: and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, — As he is very potent with such spirits, — Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds More relative than this.
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Page 254 - Riley, who briefly wrote the circumstances of the loss of the ship, his captivity, &c. adding, " worn down to the bone by the most dreadful of all sufferings, naked, and a slave, I implore your pity, and trust that such distress will not be suffered to plead in vain.
Page 235 - Turned inward, — to examine of what stuff Time's fetters are composed; and life was put To inquisition, long and profitless ! By pain of heart — now checked — and now impelled The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on, a dim and perilous way!