The Quarterly Review, Band 25William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle, George Walter Prothero J. Murray, 1821 |
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... heart with- in , and admit us to a communion and a sympathy with the speaker ; hence the profound though unobtrusive morality ; hence the solemn train of reflection - the more than philosophic medi- tation into which they so often force ...
... heart with- in , and admit us to a communion and a sympathy with the speaker ; hence the profound though unobtrusive morality ; hence the solemn train of reflection - the more than philosophic medi- tation into which they so often force ...
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... heart and a clean conscience , so the hard earth of Numancia may be bathed with the blood of Romans , and so serve them for sepulture ; " ' a devil is to rise as high as the waist through the boards of the stage , to overthrow the altar ...
... heart and a clean conscience , so the hard earth of Numancia may be bathed with the blood of Romans , and so serve them for sepulture ; " ' a devil is to rise as high as the waist through the boards of the stage , to overthrow the altar ...
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... heart Knows not of cowardice : -though of thy virtue , And most rare valour there might well be hope , I fear the unhappy fates will still be jealous . Attentively I heard the sad extremity , To which thy Lira said she was reduced ...
... heart Knows not of cowardice : -though of thy virtue , And most rare valour there might well be hope , I fear the unhappy fates will still be jealous . Attentively I heard the sad extremity , To which thy Lira said she was reduced ...
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... heart , ' must be carried on by slow and regular approaches ; after a decent period of stately contempt and coldness , it is incumbent on the lady , always provided that she has not previously surrendered to some more fortunate rival ...
... heart , ' must be carried on by slow and regular approaches ; after a decent period of stately contempt and coldness , it is incumbent on the lady , always provided that she has not previously surrendered to some more fortunate rival ...
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... heart a rock which the rivers of his tears attempt in vain to melt . In short , the language of the heart is entirely abandoned for that of the fancy ; the brilliant but false concetti ' which have infected the poetical literature of ...
... heart a rock which the rivers of his tears attempt in vain to melt . In short , the language of the heart is entirely abandoned for that of the fancy ; the brilliant but false concetti ' which have infected the poetical literature of ...
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Seite 52 - ... he carried his whip perpendicularly in his hand, like a sceptre, and, as his horse jogged on, the motion of his arms was not unlike the flapping of a pair of wings. A small wool hat rested on the top of his nose, for so his scanty strip of forehead might be called; and the skirts of his black coat fluttered out almost to the horse's tail.
Seite 54 - The hair of the affrighted pedagogue rose upon his head with terror. What was to be done? To turn and fly was now too late; and besides, what chance was there of escaping ghost or goblin, if such it was, which could ride upon the wings of the wind? Summoning up, therefore, a show of courage, he demanded in stammering accents — "Who are you?
Seite 54 - ... through the hollow, the girths of the saddle gave way, and he felt it slipping from under him. He seized it by the pommel, and endeavored to hold it firm, but in vain ; and had just time to save himself by clasping old Gunpowder round the neck, when the saddle fell to the earth, and he heard it trampled under foot by his pursuer.
Seite 50 - Connecticut ; and would frighten them wofully with speculations upon comets and shooting stars ; and with the alarming fact that the world did absolutely turn round, and that they were half the time topsyturvy ! But if there was a pleasure in all this, while snugly cuddling in the chimney corner of a chamber that was all of a ruddy glow from the crackling wood fire, and where, of course, no spectre dared to show his face, it was dearly purchased by the terrors of his subsequent walk homewards.
Seite 337 - From all sedition, privy conspiracy, and rebellion ; from all false doctrine, heresy, and schism ; from hardness of heart, and contempt of thy Word and Commandment, Good Lord, deliver us.
Seite 49 - In this by-place of nature, there abode, in a remote period of American history, that is to say, some thirty years since, a worthy wight of the name of Ichabod Crane; who sojourned, or, as he expressed it, " tarried," in Sleepy Hollow, for the purpose of instructing the children of the vicinity.
Seite 55 - Another convulsive kick in the ribs, and old Gunpowder sprang upon the bridge; he thundered over the resounding planks; he gained the opposite side; and now Ichabod cast a look behind to see if his pursuer should vanish, according to rule, in a flash of fire and brimstone. Just then he saw the goblin rising in his stirrups and in the very act of hurling his head at him.
Seite 47 - Where is the mother who would willingly forget the infant that perished like a blossom from her arms, though every recollection is a pang? Where is the child that would willingly forget the most tender of parents, though to remember be but to lament?
Seite 55 - If I can but reach that bridge," thought Ichabod, " I am safe." Just then he heard the black steed panting and blowing close behind him ; he even fancied that he felt his hot breath. Another convulsive kick in the ribs, and old Gunpowder sprang upon the bridge ; he thundered over the resounding planks ; he gained the opposite side ; and now Ichabod cast a look behind to see if his pursuer should vanish, according to rule, in a flash of fire and brimstone.
Seite 42 - I have wandered through different countries, and witnessed many of the shifting scenes of life. I cannot say that I have studied them with the eye of a philosopher, but rather with the sauntering gaze with which humble lovers of the picturesque stroll from the window of one printshop to another, caught sometimes by the delineations of beauty, sometimes by the distortions of caricature, and sometimes by the loveliness of landscape.