The Biliad, or, How to criticize; a satire, with The dirge of repeal, and other jeux d'espritauthor, 1846 - 135 páginas |
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The Biliad, Or, How to Criticize; A Satire, with the Dirge of Repeal, and ... Terence McMahon Hughes Sin vista previa disponible - 2011 |
Términos y frases comunes
absurdity abuse AGE OF IRON anapæst assumption Atrabilarian authors bard beauty BILIAD Bilk Bilk's blundering brain Carm Castle of Indolence Cervantes Clazomenian CORN-LAW critic Cytherea springing Democritus dogmatic Don Quixote e'en English Epist Epod Euripides eyes fair Cytherea fame fancy Funchal genius glorious Gods Greek hath heart Heraclitus Homer HORAT horse Hurrah Hydropathy ignorance insulting Ireland Irish journal judgment Julius Cæsar Justice JUVENAL Kingston knaves learned air literary lofty tone Lope de Vega Lusitanian monster monstrous name of Venus ne'er never o'er O(b)rion Ocean Flower once Pindar plucked poet poor Portugal Portuguese praise quis quod Quoth railway Rapparees Re-writing Repeal Review ridiculous rogue Roman Scarecrow Shakspeare shame Sirvents Sophocles Spain Spanish specimens syllables TERENT thee thou tibi TIBUL tomahawk trick Twere verse Vide wolf word Cytherea write ye seek δὲ
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Página 119 - Put out the light, and then put out the light. If I quench thee, thou flaming minister, I can again thy former light restore, Should I repent me; but once put out thy light, Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature, I know not where is that Promethean heat That can thy light relume.
Página 119 - Heaven and earth ! Must I remember? why, she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on; and yet, within a month, Let me not think on't: Frailty, thy name is woman!
Página 58 - En quid agis ? duplici in diversum scinderis hamo ; Hunccine, an hunc sequeris? Subeas alternus oportet Ancipiti obsequio dominos, alternus oberres : Nec tu, quum obstiteris semel, instantique negaris Parere imperio, Rupi jam vincula, dicas.
Página 106 - For as for witches, I think not that their witchcraft is any real power; but yet that they are justly punished for the false belief they have that they can do such mischief, joined with their purpose to do it if they can; their trade being nearer to a new religion than to a craft or science.
Página 52 - Learning's ape, with not a thumbscrew less, Revives the ancient torture of The Press ; And Genius trembling waits, like boys at school, The anecdote decisions of a fool, Laughs at each dull mistake, but that he knows The world is most made up of fools and foes, And...
Página 4 - When a man ensconces himself in chair or pulpit, and gives himself acroamatic airs, we sometimes inquire by what right he has taken the position he assumes, and oftener lazily submit to his dogmatism. But when he becomes disgustingly dictatorial, habitually ferocious, intolerably despotic and slaughtering for mere...
Página 5 - ... of slaughter, we immediately apply for a writ of quo warranto ? The answer here is that a certain unit hath scraped together types and set up a printing-press, and the only other title that can be set up with his...
Página 97 - Picentes, Ferentanae, Hirpini, Pompeiani, Venusini, Apuli, Lucani, and Samnites, took arms, and sent a joint deputation to Rome to demand a participation in the privileges of Roman citizens ; of which they had, by their services, contributed so largely to increase the value. In answer to this demand, they were told by the senate, that they must discontinue their assemblies, and renounce their pretensions, otherwise, that they must not presume to send any other message to Rome. War being thus declared...
Página 29 - To every Trade save starting a Review, Apprenticeship's the sacred Avenue' In giving Judgment we reverse the rule. The Critic needs not e'er have gone to school...
Página 70 - Avec un bruit de guerre un tambour est si bel. Et c'est aux fanfarons de battre le Roppf'As a reminiscence of his residence in Spain, the short poem ' Travelling in the Peninsula