The Eclectic Review, Volum 5;Volum 23Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood 1816 |
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... possess equal or superior genius and learning to those of the great author himself . To any such measure either of the one or of the other of those endowments , we dare make no pretension : nor if we had it , would our leisure permit us ...
... possess equal or superior genius and learning to those of the great author himself . To any such measure either of the one or of the other of those endowments , we dare make no pretension : nor if we had it , would our leisure permit us ...
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... possesses in a high degree that merit which constitutes one principal charm of history , in common with epic poetry ; between which two species of writing there is indeed so close an affinity , that if with Heyne , we define the latter ...
... possesses in a high degree that merit which constitutes one principal charm of history , in common with epic poetry ; between which two species of writing there is indeed so close an affinity , that if with Heyne , we define the latter ...
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... possessed of some literature , who then can describe with what breathless eagerness of expectation such a one would attend a companion , who should offer to conduct him in safety , through the almost chaotic gulf which separates the two ...
... possessed of some literature , who then can describe with what breathless eagerness of expectation such a one would attend a companion , who should offer to conduct him in safety , through the almost chaotic gulf which separates the two ...
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... possessed the latter talent in an eminent degree , is a well - known fact . And if our other two historians are not ... possessing the ready elocution of the orator . That Mr. Gibbon had not the talent of rapid elocution , is confessed ...
... possessed the latter talent in an eminent degree , is a well - known fact . And if our other two historians are not ... possessing the ready elocution of the orator . That Mr. Gibbon had not the talent of rapid elocution , is confessed ...
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... possessed this advantage , and fewer still have united with it all the other qualifications which belong to the character of the perfect historian . Among those few , every scholar will gratefully remember the names of Xeno- phon ...
... possessed this advantage , and fewer still have united with it all the other qualifications which belong to the character of the perfect historian . Among those few , every scholar will gratefully remember the names of Xeno- phon ...
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Side 432 - My Godfathers and Godmothers in my Baptism ; wherein I was made a member of Christ, the child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven.
Side 562 - Jesu, Maria, shield her well! She folded her arms beneath her cloak, And stole to the other side of the oak.
Side 349 - Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow ; which came up in a night, and perished in a night. And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than six score thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand, and also much cattle ?
Side 564 - A snake's small eye blinks dull and shy, And the lady's eyes they shrunk in her head, Each shrunk up to a serpent's eye, And with somewhat of malice, and more of dread, At Christabel she looked askance!
Side 561 - Is the night chilly and dark ? The night is chilly, but not dark. The thin gray cloud is spread on high, It covers but not hides the sky. The moon is behind, and at the full; And yet she looks both small and dull. The night ,is chill, the cloud is gray : "Tis a month before the month of May, And the Spring comes slowly up this way.
Side 565 - So deeply had she drunken in That look, those shrunken serpent eyes, That all her features were resigned To this sole image in her mind: And passively did imitate That look of dull and treacherous hate!
Side 386 - But if any provide not for his own, and especially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
Side 267 - Out upon Time! it will leave no more Of the things to come than the things before ! Out upon Time! who for ever will leave But enough of the past for the future to grieve...
Side 426 - they are made members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the Kingdom of Heaven...
Side 561 - The thin gray cloud is spread on high, It covers but not hides the sky. The moon is behind, and at the full; And yet she looks both small and dull. The night is chill, the cloud is gray: 'Tis a month before the month of May, And the Spring comes slowly up this way. The lovely lady, Christabel...