Southern Review, Volume 3A.E. Miller, 1829 |
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Page 33
... poet embraces , at a glance , a multitude of nice appliances , linked together on a chain of gossamer , which no orb , untouched with euphrasy , can detect , distinguish or de- tail . It is much less by what he expresses , than by what ...
... poet embraces , at a glance , a multitude of nice appliances , linked together on a chain of gossamer , which no orb , untouched with euphrasy , can detect , distinguish or de- tail . It is much less by what he expresses , than by what ...
Page 34
... poet , painter or sculptor , be entitled to small commendation . Ideas , like remedies in medicine , must be administered to us , always with a special attention to the when , the where and the how.— Hence , we cannot help regarding a ...
... poet , painter or sculptor , be entitled to small commendation . Ideas , like remedies in medicine , must be administered to us , always with a special attention to the when , the where and the how.— Hence , we cannot help regarding a ...
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... poet , whose imagination becomes extravagantly excited by two or three glimpses that he had caught of a princess , the daugher of a reigning duke . He , at first , restrains the exorbitancy of his passion , by a reflection , which is ...
... poet , whose imagination becomes extravagantly excited by two or three glimpses that he had caught of a princess , the daugher of a reigning duke . He , at first , restrains the exorbitancy of his passion , by a reflection , which is ...
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... poet accordingly is gratified . The delineation of their transports during the first days of their connexion , the flood of bright and beautiful objects that is poured around , the apprehension of Leonardo , as the period of his ...
... poet accordingly is gratified . The delineation of their transports during the first days of their connexion , the flood of bright and beautiful objects that is poured around , the apprehension of Leonardo , as the period of his ...
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... poetic talent , though he never valued himself as a poet . His letters also evinced that he had attained that purity of style so uncommon out of Italy , that ease and pleasantness that after- wards acquired him such an elevated rank ...
... poetic talent , though he never valued himself as a poet . His letters also evinced that he had attained that purity of style so uncommon out of Italy , that ease and pleasantness that after- wards acquired him such an elevated rank ...
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Page 453 - ... the United States ; or to stir up sedition within the United States ; or to excite any unlawful combinations therein, for opposing or resisting any law of the United States...
Page 362 - ... an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intense study, (which I take to be my portion in this life,) joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
Page 453 - President, or to bring them, or either of them, into contempt or disrepute; or to excite against them, or either or any of them, the hatred of the good people of the United States...
Page 453 - ... any false, scandalous and malicious writing or writings against the government of the United States, or either house of the Congress of the United States...
Page 63 - This pencil take (she said) whose colours clear Richly paint the vernal year : Thine, too, these golden keys, immortal Boy ! This can unlock the gates of Joy ; Of Horror that, and thrilling Fears, Or ope the sacred source of sympathetic Tears.
Page 454 - If people should not be called to account for possessing the people with an ill opinion of the government, no government can subsist. For it is very necessary for all governments that the people should have a good opinion of it...
Page 453 - ... of any foreign nation against the United States, their people or government, then such person, being thereof convicted before any court of the United States having jurisdiction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars, and by imprisonment not exceeding two years.
Page 371 - The lover wished that he could feel his longings and his joys so variedly and so harmoniously as the poet's inspired lips had skill to show them forth; and even the rich man could not of himself discern such costliness in his idol grandeurs, as when they were presented to him shining in the splendour of the poet's spirit, sensible to all worth, and exalting all.
Page 250 - ... again. The circumstance most striking to a traveller passing through Turkey is its depopulation. Ruins, where villages had been built, and fallows where land had been cultivated, are frequently seen, with no living things near them. This effect is not so visible in larger towns, though the cause is known to operate there in a still greater degree. Within the last twenty years, Constantinople has lost more than half its population.
Page 373 - She skipped so sharply and surely along between the eggs, and trod so closely down beside them, that you would have thought every instant she must trample one of them in pieces, or kick the rest away in her rapid turns. By no means! She touched no one of them, though winding herself through their mazes with all kinds of steps, wide and narrow, nay even with leaps, and at last half kneeling.