The Literary Examiner: Consisting of the Indicator, a Review of Books, and Miscellaneous Pieces in Prose and VerseLeigh Hunt H.L. Hunt, 1823 - 412 sider Contains all parts of the 'Literary Examiner'. Originally published as No. 1, Saturday July 5, 1823 - No. 26, Saturday Dec. 27, 1823. |
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... imaginative pleasures they afforded me , but for their making me love the very books themselves , and delight to be in contact with them . I looked sideways at my Spenser , my Theocritus , and my Arabian Nights ; then above them at my ...
... imaginative pleasures they afforded me , but for their making me love the very books themselves , and delight to be in contact with them . I looked sideways at my Spenser , my Theocritus , and my Arabian Nights ; then above them at my ...
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... imagination by Lord Byron , may be classed under one or other of the foregoing divisions ? The venality that would em- brace the profits , while it avoided the responsibility , is known to all men ; -the hypocrisy and cant , under the ...
... imagination by Lord Byron , may be classed under one or other of the foregoing divisions ? The venality that would em- brace the profits , while it avoided the responsibility , is known to all men ; -the hypocrisy and cant , under the ...
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... imagination , insurance business to the extent of hundreds of thousands . He was at all times very cheerful , danced and sung , and made many promises of conferring numerous appointments and lucrative situations on his poor fellow ...
... imagination , insurance business to the extent of hundreds of thousands . He was at all times very cheerful , danced and sung , and made many promises of conferring numerous appointments and lucrative situations on his poor fellow ...
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... imagination cannot take kindly to a yard of wit , or to thirty inches of moral observation , rolled out like linen in a draper's shop . But we conceive of Plato as of a lover of books ; of Aristotle certainly ; of Plutarch , Pliny ...
... imagination cannot take kindly to a yard of wit , or to thirty inches of moral observation , rolled out like linen in a draper's shop . But we conceive of Plato as of a lover of books ; of Aristotle certainly ; of Plutarch , Pliny ...
Side 28
... imagination as they have reason . They are pure egotists- They cannot go out of themselves . There is no instance of a woman having done any thing great in poetry or philosophy . They can act tragedy , because this de- pends very much ...
... imagination as they have reason . They are pure egotists- They cannot go out of themselves . There is no instance of a woman having done any thing great in poetry or philosophy . They can act tragedy , because this de- pends very much ...
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Side 98 - Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures, While the landscape round it measures ; Russet lawns, and fallows gray...
Side 307 - Around : the wild fowl nestled in the brake And sedges, brooding in their liquid bed ; The woods sloped downwards to its brink, and stood With their green faces fix'd upon the flood.
Side 27 - He wrote this Polar melody, and set it, Duly accompanied by shrieks and groans, "Which few will sing, I trust, but none forget it — For I will teach, if possible, the stones To rise against Earth's tyrants.
Side 133 - So they came and called unto the porter of the city: and they told them, saying, We came to the camp of the Syrians, and, behold, there was no man there, neither voice of man, but horses tied, and asses tied, and the tents as they were.
Side 71 - And bid her steal into the pleached bower, Where honeysuckles, ripened by the sun, Forbid the sun to enter— like favourites, Made proud by princes, that advance their pride Against that power that bred it.
Side 21 - ... was eminently delighted with those flights of imagination which pass the bounds of nature, and to which the mind is reconciled only by a passive acquiescence in popular traditions. He loved fairies, genii, giants, and monsters ; he delighted to rove through the meanders of inchantment, to gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces, to repose by the water-falls of Elysian gardens.
Side 119 - I will tell you something which may amaze you a little more, and I hope will frighten you. It is such men as you who madden the spirits and the patience of the poor and wretched; and if ever a convulsion comes in this country (which is very probable), recollect what I tell you : you will have your...
Side 106 - there was no matter," And proved it — 'twas no matter what he said: They say his system 'tis in vain to batter, Too subtle for the airiest human head; And yet who can believe it? I would shatter Gladly all matters, down to stone or lead, Or adamant, to find the world a spirit, And wear my head, denying that I wear it.
Side 132 - I take my subjects' money, when I want it, without all this formality of parliament?" The bishop of Durham readily answered, "God forbid, Sir, but you should: you are the breath of our nostrils." Whereupon the King turned and said to the bishop of Winchester, "Well, my Lord, what say you?" "Sir," replied the bishop, "I have no skill to judge of parliamentary cases." The King answered, "No put-offs, my Lord; answer me presently.
Side 307 - Its outlet dash'd into a deep cascade, Sparkling with foam, until again subsiding, Its shriller echoes — like an infant made Quiet— sank into softer ripples...