The North American Review, Volume 79Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge O. Everett, 1854 - American fiction Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... passion , or feeling , petrified , spirit crystallized . Last of all , the book on the table is the most valuable end by the simplest means ever obtained . Once it was cotton and straw ; and the ink , which presents to us the thought of ...
... passion , or feeling , petrified , spirit crystallized . Last of all , the book on the table is the most valuable end by the simplest means ever obtained . Once it was cotton and straw ; and the ink , which presents to us the thought of ...
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... passions . Thus , upon reading the sentence of death passed on John L. Brown for assisting a fe- male slave to escape , ( which sentence was afterwards com- muted , ) a series of stanzas were written , the first one of which makes the ...
... passions . Thus , upon reading the sentence of death passed on John L. Brown for assisting a fe- male slave to escape , ( which sentence was afterwards com- muted , ) a series of stanzas were written , the first one of which makes the ...
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... passion . In " The Drummer ” and " Rosamond " there are indications of a playful invention and fanciful zest , which , like the most characteristic passages of the Spectator , evince that Addison's best vein was the humorous and the ...
... passion . In " The Drummer ” and " Rosamond " there are indications of a playful invention and fanciful zest , which , like the most characteristic passages of the Spectator , evince that Addison's best vein was the humorous and the ...
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... passions and depraved taste . To all this the pure and benign example of Addison was a delightful contrast : his censorship was tem- pered with good feeling , his expression untainted with vulgar- ity ; he was familiar , without losing ...
... passions and depraved taste . To all this the pure and benign example of Addison was a delightful contrast : his censorship was tem- pered with good feeling , his expression untainted with vulgar- ity ; he was familiar , without losing ...
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... passions would find no adequate vent in any dialect milder and cleanlier than that which derives its force and flavor from Billingsgate and Wap- ping ; but for all ordinary purposes , either of copiousness or condensation , of elegance ...
... passions would find no adequate vent in any dialect milder and cleanlier than that which derives its force and flavor from Billingsgate and Wap- ping ; but for all ordinary purposes , either of copiousness or condensation , of elegance ...
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Page 272 - 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...
Page 284 - Grown all to all, from no one vice exempt, And most contemptible, to shun contempt; His passion still, to covet general praise, His life, to forfeit it a thousand ways; A constant bounty which no friend has made; An angel tongue, which no man can persuade; A fool, with more of wit than half mankind, Too rash for thought, for action too refined...
Page 284 - Wharton, the scorn and wonder of our days, Whose ruling passion was the lust of praise: Born with whate'er could win it from the wise, Women and fools must like him or he dies; Though wond'ring Senates hung on all he spoke, The Club must hail him master of the joke.
Page 336 - On the contrary, although he may be laboring under partial insanity, if he still understands the nature and character of his act, and its consequences; if he has a knowledge that it is wrong and criminal, and a mental power sufficient to apply that knowledge to his own case, and to know that, if he does the act, he will do wrong and receive punishment; such partial insanity is not sufficient to exempt him from responsibility for criminal acts.
Page 468 - States shall continue to enjoy unmolested the right to take fish of every kind on the Grand Bank, and on all the other banks of Newfoundland ; also, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and at all other places in the sea, where the inhabitants of both countries used at any time heretofore to fish...
Page 471 - And the United States hereby renounce for ever any liberty heretofore enjoyed or claimed by the inhabitants thereof, to take, dry, or cure fish on or within three marine miles of any of the coasts, bays, creeks, or harbours of His Britannic Majesty's dominions in America not included within the abovementioned limits.
Page 449 - And the said Regents shall make, from the interest of said fund, an appropriation, not exceeding an average of twenty-five thousand dollars annually, for the gradual formation of a library composed of valuable works pertaining to all departments of human knowledge.
Page 41 - The rigor of a frozen clime, The harshness of an untaught ear, The jarring words of one whose rhyme Beat often Labor's hurried time, Or Duty's rugged march through storm and strife, are here.
Page 26 - Then wrought Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every wise hearted man, in whom the LORD put wisdom and understanding to know how to work all manner of work for the service of the sanctuary, according to all that the LORD had commanded.
Page 279 - Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour ? What though we wade in wealth, or soar in fame ? Earth's highest station ends in, ' Here he lies;' And ' dust to dust