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... writer of our day , we shall not , as we need not , attempt it . Suffice it to say , it was a scene most imposing and animating , and admirably suited to effect its aim . It was indeed , a rough sport ( for rarely did one pass without ...
... writer of our day , we shall not , as we need not , attempt it . Suffice it to say , it was a scene most imposing and animating , and admirably suited to effect its aim . It was indeed , a rough sport ( for rarely did one pass without ...
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... writers of travels . We need not commend the volumes to our readers ; since the fair and accomplished authoress has been sending out literary letters of credit , for several months , through the columns of the ' New - York American ...
... writers of travels . We need not commend the volumes to our readers ; since the fair and accomplished authoress has been sending out literary letters of credit , for several months , through the columns of the ' New - York American ...
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... writer , for they will live , ) — there are numerous earlier poems and transla- tions of the author , among which we find several of the most finished productions of his pen . Such , especially , are the ode from the Spanish of DON ...
... writer , for they will live , ) — there are numerous earlier poems and transla- tions of the author , among which we find several of the most finished productions of his pen . Such , especially , are the ode from the Spanish of DON ...
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... writer's abdication , near a twelvemonth since , of the veritable author's throne , in the first paper in which he introduced himself as a per- manent contributor to these pages : ' I have hitherto sought , ' says he , ' to ease off a ...
... writer's abdication , near a twelvemonth since , of the veritable author's throne , in the first paper in which he introduced himself as a per- manent contributor to these pages : ' I have hitherto sought , ' says he , ' to ease off a ...
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... writer in some American periodical has com- plained of the costliness of autographs in England , seeing that he had just given eight dollars for a letter from SIR WALTER SCOTT to THOMAS HOOD . ' As such a statement implies that I am ...
... writer in some American periodical has com- plained of the costliness of autographs in England , seeing that he had just given eight dollars for a letter from SIR WALTER SCOTT to THOMAS HOOD . ' As such a statement implies that I am ...
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Seite 365 - I am afraid my uncle will think himself justified by them on this occasion, when he asserts, that it is one of the most difficult things in the world to put a woman right, when she sets out wrong.
Seite 20 - I' the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things ; for no kind of traffic Would I admit ; no name of magistrate ; Letters should not be known ; riches, poverty, And use of service, none ; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none ; No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil ; No occupation ; all men idle, all ; And women too, — but innocent and pure ; No sovereignty, — Seb.
Seite 145 - With a slow and noiseless footstep Comes that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine. And she sits and gazes at me With those deep and tender eyes, Like the stars, so still and saint-like, Looking downward from the skies.
Seite 176 - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold ; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones...
Seite 317 - How calm, how beautiful comes on The stilly hour, when storms are gone ; When warring winds have died away, And clouds, beneath the glancing ray, Melt off, and leave the land and sea Sleeping in bright tranquillity, — Fresh as if day again were born, Again upon the lap of morn...
Seite 257 - Remember thee? Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat In this distracted globe. Remember thee? Yea, from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, That youth and observation copied there, And thy commandment all alone shall live Within the book and volume of my brain, Unmix'd with baser matter: yes, by heaven!
Seite 16 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Seite 20 - Treason, felony, Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine Would I not have ; but nature should bring forth Of its own kind, all foison, all abundance, To feed my innocent people.
Seite 407 - Secondly, The other fountain from which experience furnisheth the understanding with ideas, is the perception of the operations of our own minds within us, as it is employed about the ideas it has got; which operations when the soul comes to reflect on and consider, do furnish the understanding with another set of ideas, which could not be had from things without; and such are perception, thinking, doubting, believing, reasoning, knowing, willing, and all the different actings of our own minds; which...
Seite 10 - I betook me among those lofty fables and romances which recount in solemn cantos the deeds of knighthood founded by our victorious kings, and from hence had in renown over all Christendom.