Southern Quarterly Review, Volume 6Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell Wiley & Putnam, 1844 |
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... Rome , 521 . Natural History of the Caucasian and Negro Races , 525 . New Jerusalem in the U. States , 525 . 0 . O'Brien's ' Lawyer , ' 370 . P. R. Milton's Genius , 31-75 ; indebted- Prescott's Mexico , 163 . ness of Paradise Lost to ...
... Rome , 521 . Natural History of the Caucasian and Negro Races , 525 . New Jerusalem in the U. States , 525 . 0 . O'Brien's ' Lawyer , ' 370 . P. R. Milton's Genius , 31-75 ; indebted- Prescott's Mexico , 163 . ness of Paradise Lost to ...
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... Rome is the religious guide of the peo- ple , and say whether the obedience of the subject is less strong than in England ? Point to the principle in the Ro- man Catholic Church that inculcates disobedience in the subject , or makes the ...
... Rome is the religious guide of the peo- ple , and say whether the obedience of the subject is less strong than in England ? Point to the principle in the Ro- man Catholic Church that inculcates disobedience in the subject , or makes the ...
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... Rome . All this it is necessary to know before the drama commences ; and Teudon , a slave , relates it as a piece of information derived from Sfrondati , whom he accidentally saw at Prague many years before , confined as a lunatic . His ...
... Rome . All this it is necessary to know before the drama commences ; and Teudon , a slave , relates it as a piece of information derived from Sfrondati , whom he accidentally saw at Prague many years before , confined as a lunatic . His ...
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... Rome - nor age , that bows the pride of man , - Nor aught on earth , hath vanquished , or subdued , Or bent this ancient Titan of the Rhine , 12 VOL . VI.-NO. 11 . The excommunicated Job ? -Hast heard ? THE MENDICANT . 1844. ] 89 Victor ...
... Rome - nor age , that bows the pride of man , - Nor aught on earth , hath vanquished , or subdued , Or bent this ancient Titan of the Rhine , 12 VOL . VI.-NO. 11 . The excommunicated Job ? -Hast heard ? THE MENDICANT . 1844. ] 89 Victor ...
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... Rome , have fallen , is to know something , perhaps ; but to know why Carthage , Greece and Rome have fallen , is information of quite another stamp , -information to be ob- , tained only by following out every link in a chain of ratio ...
... Rome , have fallen , is to know something , perhaps ; but to know why Carthage , Greece and Rome have fallen , is information of quite another stamp , -information to be ob- , tained only by following out every link in a chain of ratio ...
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Page 74 - I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her siren daughters...
Page 121 - The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them ; and they said unto the olive tree, Reign thou over us. But the olive tree said unto them, Should I leave my fatness, wherewith by me they honour God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees ? And the trees said to the fig tree, Come thou, and reign over us.
Page 73 - If the time should ever come when what is now called science, thus familiarized to men, shall be ready to put on, as it were, a form of flesh and blood, the Poet will lend his divine spirit to aid the transfiguration, and will welcome the Being thus produced, as a dear and genuine inmate of the household of man...
Page 121 - Then said all the trees unto the bramble, Come thou, and reign over us. And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king over you, then come and put your trust in my shadow : and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.
Page 272 - The Niobe of nations, — there she stands, Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe ; An empty urn within her withered hands, Whose holy dust was scattered long ago ; The Scipios...
Page 383 - Equity is a Roguish thing, for Law we have a measure, know what to trust to, Equity is according to the Conscience of him that is Chancellor, and as that is larger or narrower, so is Equity. 'Tis all one as if they should make the Standard for the measure, we call [a Foot] a Chancellor's Foot, what an uncertain Measure would this be?
Page 33 - Earth trembled from her entrails, as again In pangs ; and Nature gave a second groan ; Sky lour'd, and, muttering thunder, some sad drops Wept at completing of the mortal sin Original...
Page 120 - ... arose, and went forth into the wilderness, and sought diligently for the man, and found him, and returned with him to the tent; and when he had entreated him kindly, he sent him away on the morrow with gifts. 14. And God spake again unto Abraham, saying, For this thy sin shall thy seed be afflicted four hundred years in a strange land; 15. But for thy repentance will I deliver them; and they shall come forth with power, and with gladness of heart, and with much substance.
Page 73 - The remotest discoveries of the chemist, the botanist, or mineralogist will be as proper objects of the poet's art as any upon which it can be employed, if the time should ever come when these things shall be familiar to us, and the relations under which they are contemplated by the followers of these respective sciences shall be manifestly and palpably material to us as enjoying and suffering beings.
Page 53 - Quapropter effigiem dei formamque quaerere inbecillitatis humanae reor. Quisquis est deus, si modo est alius, et quacumque in parte, totus est sensus, totus visus, totus auditus, totus animae, totus animi, totus sui.