The National Magazine: Devoted to Literature, Art, and Religion, Volume 8Abel Stevens, James Floy Carlton & Phillips, 1856 - Periodicals |
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... turning and doubling like a hare before grayhounds , at one moment darting like an arrow into the air , high above the falcon's head ; at the next sweeping round some bush or headland but in vain . The hawk , with steady , relentless ...
... turning and doubling like a hare before grayhounds , at one moment darting like an arrow into the air , high above the falcon's head ; at the next sweeping round some bush or headland but in vain . The hawk , with steady , relentless ...
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... turned to humor . What is thus individually the fact , is aggregately true of nations . The sensibility which is easily touched with the humorous impressions of life is equally susceptible of its other impressions ; and as its sad ones ...
... turned to humor . What is thus individually the fact , is aggregately true of nations . The sensibility which is easily touched with the humorous impressions of life is equally susceptible of its other impressions ; and as its sad ones ...
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... turned upon you , her knees drawn in under her dewlaps , ruminating on some thought of cosmogony . On the right , the Persian Griffin , with long claws and shaking wing , seems to guard a treasure ; while on the left , the Chaldean ...
... turned upon you , her knees drawn in under her dewlaps , ruminating on some thought of cosmogony . On the right , the Persian Griffin , with long claws and shaking wing , seems to guard a treasure ; while on the left , the Chaldean ...
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... turned again , saying , " Wait a moment ; I put my cane in this corner , and had well - nigh forgotten it . Madam ! " He paused suddenly , for he had discovered me . I lifted my eyes and the light fell full on his features , and we ...
... turned again , saying , " Wait a moment ; I put my cane in this corner , and had well - nigh forgotten it . Madam ! " He paused suddenly , for he had discovered me . I lifted my eyes and the light fell full on his features , and we ...
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... turned to some profitable account , in the way of building - timber , lumber , cord- wood , or fence - rails , thus laying open these vast tracts to the fertilizing influ- ences of the sun , assisted by those power- ful auxiliaries ...
... turned to some profitable account , in the way of building - timber , lumber , cord- wood , or fence - rails , thus laying open these vast tracts to the fertilizing influ- ences of the sun , assisted by those power- ful auxiliaries ...
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Page 35 - I wind about and in and out, With here a blossom sailing, And here and there a lusty trout, And here and there a grayling; And here and there a foamy flake Upon me, as I travel With many a silvery waterbreak Above the golden gravel...
Page 357 - And the eye cannot say to the hand, ' I have no need of thee ' ; nor again the head to the feet,
Page 35 - I CHATTER over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles, I bubble into eddying bays, I babble on the pebbles. With many a curve my banks I fret By many a field and fallow, And many a fairy foreland set With willow-weed and mallow.
Page 35 - I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley. By thirty hills I hurry down, Or slip between the ridges, By twenty thorps, a little town, And half a hundred bridges.
Page 519 - And the times of this ignorance God winked at ; but now commandeth all men everywhere to repent : because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained ; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
Page 212 - Tis the merry Nightingale That crowds, and hurries, and precipitates With fast thick warble his delicious notes; As he were fearful that an April night Would be too short for him to utter forth His love-chant, and disburthen his full soul Of all its music...
Page 12 - By his wide curvature of wing and sudden suspension in air, he knows him to be the fish-hawk, 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 404 - Suspend the effect, or heal it ? Has not God Still wrought by means since first he made the world ? And did he not of old employ his means To drown it ? What is his creation less Than a capacious reservoir of means, Formed for his use, and ready at his will...
Page 212 - Glides through the pathways ; she knows all their notes. That gentle Maid ! and oft a moment's space, What time the moon was lost behind a cloud, Hath heard a pause of silence...
Page 519 - And Paul said, I would to God, that not only thou, but also all that hear me this day, were both almost, and altogether such as I am, except these bonds.