The American Monthly Magazine and Critical Review, Volume 3H. Biglow, Orville Luther Holley H. Biglow, 1818 - American literature |
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... thing , and the people nothing , will rise before them in all its va- riety of guilt ; its unspeakable horror and gigantic enormity ; held together only by that dreadful compact which it has in- stinctively entered into with the vices ...
... thing , and the people nothing , will rise before them in all its va- riety of guilt ; its unspeakable horror and gigantic enormity ; held together only by that dreadful compact which it has in- stinctively entered into with the vices ...
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... thing valuable in their estimation , and dear to their hearts , was at the mercy of a proud , cruel , and insolent tyrant , whose late atrocious outrage upon them in the person of their chief , too plainly demonstrated the rancourous ...
... thing valuable in their estimation , and dear to their hearts , was at the mercy of a proud , cruel , and insolent tyrant , whose late atrocious outrage upon them in the person of their chief , too plainly demonstrated the rancourous ...
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... thing of the kind that had been presented to the Ame- rican public . Among the first of these was his circular map of thirty miles round New - York , which appeared in 1814. He also published , at the request of the Ca- nal ...
... thing of the kind that had been presented to the Ame- rican public . Among the first of these was his circular map of thirty miles round New - York , which appeared in 1814. He also published , at the request of the Ca- nal ...
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... thing at once true and novel upon topics which have been the themes of discussion for so many centuries ; -but it would be doing this eloquent writer a great injustice to suppose that he travelled merely as a con- noisseur - that he was ...
... thing at once true and novel upon topics which have been the themes of discussion for so many centuries ; -but it would be doing this eloquent writer a great injustice to suppose that he travelled merely as a con- noisseur - that he was ...
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... thing , the breathing tenderness of the Virgin , and the heavenly composure of the corpse , appeared to me beauties foreign to the tremendous genius of the artist . At the hospital of Incurables I found priests and choristers chanting ...
... thing , the breathing tenderness of the Virgin , and the heavenly composure of the corpse , appeared to me beauties foreign to the tremendous genius of the artist . At the hospital of Incurables I found priests and choristers chanting ...
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Page 390 - For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened ; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left : and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt...
Page 207 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roar: I love not Man the less, but Nature more...
Page 327 - At last a soft and solemn-breathing sound Rose like a steam of rich distill'd perfumes, And stole upon the air...
Page 89 - O'ER the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free. Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, Survey our empire, and behold our home ! These are our realms, no limits to their sway — Our flag the sceptre all who meet obey. Ours the wild life in tumult still to range From toil to rest, and joy in every change.
Page 206 - And all things weigh'd in custom's falsest scale ; Opinion an omnipotence — whose veil Mantles the earth with darkness, until right And wrong are accidents, and men grow pale Lest their own judgments should become too bright, And their free thoughts be crimes, and earth have too much light.
Page 115 - He fell into a fit of crying the moment he came into the chapel, and flung himself back in a stall, the archbishop hovering over him with a smelling-bottle; but in two minutes his curiosity got the better of his hypocrisy, and he ran about the chapel with his glass to spy who was or was not there, spying with one hand, and mopping his eyes with the other.
Page 165 - AH ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar ; Ah ! who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with Fortune an eternal war ; Check'd by the scoff of Pride, by Envy's frown, And Poverty's unconquerable bar, In life's low vale remote has pined alone, Then dropt into the grave, unpitied and unknown...
Page 206 - The moon is up, and yet it is not night; Sunset divides the sky with her; a sea Of glory streams along the Alpine height Of blue Friuli's mountains; Heaven is free From clouds, but of all colours seems to be, — Melted to one vast Iris of the West, — Where the Day joins the past Eternity, While, on the other hand, meek Dian's crest Floats through the azure air — an island of the blest!
Page 115 - Attending the funeral of a father could not be pleasant: his leg extremely bad, yet forced to stand upon it near two hours; his face bloated and distorted with his late paralytic stroke, which has affected, too, one of his eyes, and placed...
Page 403 - ... the free and ingenuous sort of such as evidently were born to study and love learning for itself, not for lucre or any other end but the service of God and of truth, and perhaps that lasting fame and perpetuity of praise which God and good men have consented shall be the reward of those whose published labours advance the good of mankind...