The British Critic: A New Review, Volume 1F. and C. Rivington, 1814 - English literature |
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... poets is cramped by the observance of the laws of metre : the man , whom some evil genius impels , without one particle of the mens divinior , to dabble in verse , may rail against the tyranny of custom in exacting rhyme : but we ...
... poets is cramped by the observance of the laws of metre : the man , whom some evil genius impels , without one particle of the mens divinior , to dabble in verse , may rail against the tyranny of custom in exacting rhyme : but we ...
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... poem before us , which , from the unexampled rapi- pidity of its circulation , and from the general applause with which it has been received , becomes a prominent object in the poetical department of a literary journal . Lord Byron has ...
... poem before us , which , from the unexampled rapi- pidity of its circulation , and from the general applause with which it has been received , becomes a prominent object in the poetical department of a literary journal . Lord Byron has ...
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... poets ; and from the partia- lity which our noble author seems to entertain for his ground , we may hope that these tales of love are but a prelude to a poem of a more enlarged and magnificent structure , founded on one of those bold ...
... poets ; and from the partia- lity which our noble author seems to entertain for his ground , we may hope that these tales of love are but a prelude to a poem of a more enlarged and magnificent structure , founded on one of those bold ...
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... poem by parallel passages in another , different perhaps both in style and language , cannot be construed by any one , who can extend his ideas beyond the mere volume before him , into a charge of plagiarism . To return to the story ...
... poem by parallel passages in another , different perhaps both in style and language , cannot be construed by any one , who can extend his ideas beyond the mere volume before him , into a charge of plagiarism . To return to the story ...
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... poem , were it not for the metre , is ad- mirably adapted for scenic representation . But , however happy we should be to see the story and the expressions of the poem worked into a legitimate drama , we trust that it will not be dis ...
... poem , were it not for the metre , is ad- mirably adapted for scenic representation . But , however happy we should be to see the story and the expressions of the poem worked into a legitimate drama , we trust that it will not be dis ...
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Page 287 - Slow sinks, more lovely ere his race be run, Along Morea's hills the setting sun: Not, as in northern climes, obscurely bright, But one unclouded blaze of living light!
Page 45 - KNOW ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime...
Page 42 - When I say, My bed shall comfort me, My couch shall ease my complaint; Then thou scarest me with dreams, And terrifiest me through visions : So that my soul chooseth strangling, And death rather than my life.
Page 292 - Debased by slavery, or corrupt by power, Who knows thee well must quit thee with disgust, Degraded mass of animated dust ! Thy love is lust, thy friendship all a cheat, Thy smiles hypocrisy, thy words deceit ! By nature vile, ennobled but by name, Each kindred brute might bid thee blush for shame. Ye ! who perchance behold this simple urn, Pass on — it honours none you wish to mourn : To mark a friend's remains these stones arise, I never knew but one, and here he lies.
Page 432 - The Germans in Greek Are sadly to seek ; Not five in five score, But ninety-five more ; All, save only Hermann, And Hermann's a German.
Page 291 - WHEN some proud son of man returns to earth, Unknown to glory, but upheld by birth, The sculptor's art exhausts the pomp of woe, And storied urns record who rest below : When all is done, upon the tomb is seen, Not what he was, but what he should have been...
Page 541 - Gibbon's Decline and fall, vol. vi. p. 320. ODE TO NAPOLEON BUONAPARTE. 1. 1 1s done — but yesterday a King ! And arm'd with Kings to strive — And now thou art a nameless thing So abject — yet alive ! Is this the man of thousand thrones, Who strew'd our Earth with hostile bones ? And can he thus survive ? Since he, miscall'd the Morning Star, Nor man nor fiend hath fallen so far.
Page 291 - Unhonour'd falls, unnoticed all his worth, Denied in heaven the soul he held on earth : While man, vain insect ! hopes to be forgiven, And claims himself a sole exclusive heaven.
Page 42 - When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? And I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.
Page 7 - Works done before the grace of Christ, and the Inspiration of his Spirit, are not pleasant to God, forasmuch as they spring not of faith in Jesus Christ...