The New-York Literary Gazette, and Phi Beta Kappa Repository, Volume 1James G. Brooks, 1826 - Literature |
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... look ! I hear thee nam'd by those who keep Thy image in their heart ; I envy them , that they may say How very dear thou art . And yet , methinks , Love may not be Kept better than in secresy . I blush not when I hear thy name ; I sigh ...
... look ! I hear thee nam'd by those who keep Thy image in their heart ; I envy them , that they may say How very dear thou art . And yet , methinks , Love may not be Kept better than in secresy . I blush not when I hear thy name ; I sigh ...
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... look to the ladies to assist us the public at our outset , and to acquaint them in this department - they are adepts in the with the general object of our undertaking ; art of puzzling the lords of creation , and we they are to decide ...
... look to the ladies to assist us the public at our outset , and to acquaint them in this department - they are adepts in the with the general object of our undertaking ; art of puzzling the lords of creation , and we they are to decide ...
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... look to nothing but his own exer- the title of " lords of the creation , " - then , tions for success ; he it is who must direct and not till then , will the springs of genuine , and form the minds of his offspring , and who and ...
... look to nothing but his own exer- the title of " lords of the creation , " - then , tions for success ; he it is who must direct and not till then , will the springs of genuine , and form the minds of his offspring , and who and ...
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... look for it in real life ? It is lite the fabled Asphodel , a plant that blossons only in Elysium ? Or has it been - may t be found in the world ? Is it within the conpass of human possibility that the bliss which it bestows may be gain ...
... look for it in real life ? It is lite the fabled Asphodel , a plant that blossons only in Elysium ? Or has it been - may t be found in the world ? Is it within the conpass of human possibility that the bliss which it bestows may be gain ...
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... looks , the actions , to sum up all , -the sanctity of Love : its language was never intended for a third person's ears , and its telegraph of the eyes can ... look gay ; with fairest show I'll mock 28 THE NEW - YORK LITERARY GAZETTE , AND.
... looks , the actions , to sum up all , -the sanctity of Love : its language was never intended for a third person's ears , and its telegraph of the eyes can ... look gay ; with fairest show I'll mock 28 THE NEW - YORK LITERARY GAZETTE , AND.
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Page 119 - Now, therein, of all sciences (I speak still of human, and according to the human conceit) is our poet the monarch. For he doth not only show the way, but giveth so sweet a prospect into the way as will entice any man to enter into it...
Page 118 - Adam, since our erected wit maketh us know what perfection is, and yet our infected will keepeth us from reaching unto it.
Page 393 - ... settling over some devoted victim of the deep. His eye kindles at the sight, and balancing himself with half-opened wings on the branch, he watches the result. Down, rapid as an arrow from heaven, descends the distant object of his attention, the roar of its wings reaching the ear, as it disappears in the deep, making the surges foam around ! At this moment the eager looks of the eagle are all...
Page 370 - SHALL I, wasting in despair, Die because a woman's fair? Or make pale my cheeks with care 'Cause another's rosy are? Be she fairer than the day, Or the flowery meads in May, If she think not well of me, What care I how fair she be?
Page 118 - ... deeds and praises of their gods, — a sufficient probability that, if ever learning come among them, it must be by having their hard dull wits softened and sharpened with the sweet delights of poetry; for until they find a pleasure in the...
Page 119 - Now doth the peerless poet perform both : for whatsoever the philosopher saith should be done, he giveth a perfect picture of it in some one, by whom he presupposeth it was done. So as he coupleth the general notion with the particular example. A perfect picture, I say; for he yieldeth to the powers of the mind an image of that whereof the philosopher bestoweth but a wordish description: which doth neither strike, pierce, nor possess the sight of the soul so much as that other doth.
Page 121 - I conjure you all that have had the evil luck to read this ink-wasting toy of mine, even in the name of the nine Muses, no more to scorn the sacred mysteries of...
Page 201 - While this, with reverence meet, Ten thousand echoes greet, From rock to rock repeat Round our coast ; While the manners, while the arts, That mould a nation's soul, Still cling around our hearts, — Between let Ocean roll, Our joint communion breaking with the sun : Yet still from either beach The voice of blood shall reach, More audible than speech, "We are One.
Page 120 - By these, therefore, examples and reasons, I think it may be manifest, that the poet, with that same hand of delight, doth draw the mind more effectually than any other art doth.
Page 121 - For example, we are ravished with delight to see a fair woman, and yet are far from being moved to laughter. We laugh at deformed creatures wherein certainly we cannot delight.