The Retrospective Review, Volum 1Charles and Henry Baldwyn, 1820 |
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Side iv
... called a READING PUBLIC . The lively Greeks were not a reading nation - they were a hearing and a talking people — they fed the mind through the ear , eye ; and not through the historians and poets were IV INTRODUCTION .
... called a READING PUBLIC . The lively Greeks were not a reading nation - they were a hearing and a talking people — they fed the mind through the ear , eye ; and not through the historians and poets were IV INTRODUCTION .
Side v
eye ; and not through the historians and poets were not so much read as heard - Homer was recited by rhapsodists - Herodotus read his history at the Olym- pic game - the tragedies of Sophocles and Euripides were at stated times the ...
eye ; and not through the historians and poets were not so much read as heard - Homer was recited by rhapsodists - Herodotus read his history at the Olym- pic game - the tragedies of Sophocles and Euripides were at stated times the ...
Side x
... poets also have met their deserved reputation , but the animated , clear , and spirited Spanish writers in prose , are comparatively unknown . The beautiful bal- lads in which the Spaniards perhaps excel even the Scotch and English , as ...
... poets also have met their deserved reputation , but the animated , clear , and spirited Spanish writers in prose , are comparatively unknown . The beautiful bal- lads in which the Spaniards perhaps excel even the Scotch and English , as ...
Side 1
... poet by a Reviewer . We will select a few passages from his work , which may be consolatory to modern authors , and useful to modern critics . The chief weight of Mr. Rymer's critical vengeance is wreaked on Othello . After a slight ...
... poet by a Reviewer . We will select a few passages from his work , which may be consolatory to modern authors , and useful to modern critics . The chief weight of Mr. Rymer's critical vengeance is wreaked on Othello . After a slight ...
Side 2
... poet's offence as a kind of misprision of treason . " The character of the state ( of Venice ) is to employ strangers in their wars ; but shall a poet thence fancy that they will set a Negro to be their general ; or trust a Moor to ...
... poet's offence as a kind of misprision of treason . " The character of the state ( of Venice ) is to employ strangers in their wars ; but shall a poet thence fancy that they will set a Negro to be their general ; or trust a Moor to ...
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Side 74 - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Side 90 - ... it cannot be long before we lie down in darkness and have our light in ashes...
Side 312 - tis the soul of peace ; Of all the virtues 'tis nearest kin to heaven ; It makes men look like gods. The best of men That e'er wore earth about him was a sufferer, A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit, The first true gentleman that ever breath'd.
Side 90 - The number of the dead long exceedeth all that shall live. The night of time far surpasseth the day, and who knows when was the equinox?
Side 136 - I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
Side 93 - Darkness and light divide the course of time, and oblivion shares with memory a great part even of our living beings; we slightly remember our felicities, and the smartest strokes of affliction leave but short smart upon us. Sense endureth no extremities, and sorrows destroy us or themselves.
Side 93 - To be ignorant of evils to come, and forgetful of evils past, is a merciful provision in nature, whereby we digest the mixture of our few and evil days ; and our delivered senses not relapsing into cutting remembrances, our sorrows are not kept raw by the edge of repetitions.
Side 18 - That day she was dressed in white silk, bordered with pearls of the size of beans, and over it a mantle of black silk, shot with silver threads ; her train was very long, the end of it borne by a marchioness ; instead of a chain she had an oblong collar of gold and jewels.
Side 90 - Oblivion is not to be hired. The greater part must be content to be as though they had not been, to be found in the register of God, not in the record of man.
Side 91 - And therefore restless inquietude for the diuturnity of our memories unto present considerations, seems a vanity almost out of date, and superannuated piece of folly. We cannot hope to live so long in our names as some have done in their persons ; one face of Janus holds no proportion unto the other. It is too late to be ambitious.