The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 13Leavitt, Trow, & Company, 1848 - American literature |
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... object of recording Shelley's early life is that of tracing the unusually early development of his powers ; and the value of any part of the record is destroyed by proofs , such as this accident furnishes , that Medwin has composed his ...
... object of recording Shelley's early life is that of tracing the unusually early development of his powers ; and the value of any part of the record is destroyed by proofs , such as this accident furnishes , that Medwin has composed his ...
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... objects of sion , and it made the aggressor and Shelley doubtful legality - can it be surprising that no unequal ... object in Captain Medwin and his friend , when con- which her thoughts may find all repose . versing on the incident ...
... objects of sion , and it made the aggressor and Shelley doubtful legality - can it be surprising that no unequal ... object in Captain Medwin and his friend , when con- which her thoughts may find all repose . versing on the incident ...
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... object all that he can picture to his mind of good , or pure , or true : he seeks that which must end in disappoint- ment . " Blasted by disappointment , he descends into an untimely grave . " " The poet's self - centred seclusion is ...
... object all that he can picture to his mind of good , or pure , or true : he seeks that which must end in disappoint- ment . " Blasted by disappointment , he descends into an untimely grave . " " The poet's self - centred seclusion is ...
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... object in is of another kind . That every object in nature should suggest Prometheus to his bride that his defiance of Jupiter should be above all things , and by all things pre- markable instance . It is Shelley's greatest poem . The ...
... object in is of another kind . That every object in nature should suggest Prometheus to his bride that his defiance of Jupiter should be above all things , and by all things pre- markable instance . It is Shelley's greatest poem . The ...
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... object of sus- picion to him , the effects of which she often found troublesome enough . Perhaps the emperor thought that she who had predict- ed his overthrow would not scruple to use means to compass it . Be that as it may , a jealous ...
... object of sus- picion to him , the effects of which she often found troublesome enough . Perhaps the emperor thought that she who had predict- ed his overthrow would not scruple to use means to compass it . Be that as it may , a jealous ...
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Page 117 - And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every, tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food ; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
Page 285 - Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.
Page 21 - Midst others of less note, came one frail Form, A phantom among men; companionless As the last cloud of an expiring storm Whose thunder is its knell; he, as I guess, Had gazed on Nature's naked loveliness, Actaeon-like, and now he fled astray With feeble steps o'er the world's wilderness, And his own thoughts, along that rugged way, Pursued, like raging hounds, their father and their prey.
Page 100 - Truth may, perhaps, come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights.
Page 146 - THERE is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato has thought, he...
Page 20 - Prometheus is, as it were, the type of the highest perfection of moral and intellectual nature, impelled by the purest and the truest motives to the best and noblest ends.
Page 7 - Say, for you saw us, ye immortal lights, How oft unwearied have we spent the nights, Till the Ledaean stars, so famed for love, Wonder'd at us from above! We spent them not in toys, in lusts, or wine ; But search of deep Philosophy, Wit, Eloquence, and Poetry, Arts which I loved, for they, my friend, were thine.
Page 17 - A restless impulse urged him to embark And meet lone Death on the drear ocean's waste ; For well he knew that mighty Shadow loves The slimy caverns of the populous deep.
Page 146 - At home I dream that at Naples, at Rome, I can be intoxicated with beauty, and lose my sadness. I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. I seek the Vatican, and the palaces. I affect to be intoxicated with sights and suggestions, but I am not intoxicated My giant goes with me wherever I go.
Page 61 - The cause whereof is that the object of man's desire is not to enjoy once only, and for one instant of time, but to assure for ever the way of his future desire.