The Literary Magazine, and American Register, Volume 5Charles Brockden Brown John Conrad & Company, 1806 - American literature This monthly, begun by Charles Brockden Brown in Philadelphia in October, 1803, was similar to his New York Monthly, but gave more attention to political chronicles and general intelligence and contained less fiction than the Monthly had. The contents were varied; most pieces were brief, and about half were original. Agriculture, travel, feminism, and literature were among the topics, and there was also much medical information, especially concerning yellow fever and smallpox. Brown claimed that inoculation for smallpox had done more harm than good. Cf. American periodicals, 1741-1900. |
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... light ? Can the airy shadows of poetical imagery be compared to the embodied realities of art ? Where the poet cursorily ob- serves , the painter studies intensely ; what the one carries loosely in his memory , the other stamps upon his ...
... light ? Can the airy shadows of poetical imagery be compared to the embodied realities of art ? Where the poet cursorily ob- serves , the painter studies intensely ; what the one carries loosely in his memory , the other stamps upon his ...
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... lights ? A. No , no ( laughing ) : we always put them out , for a better chance by night . Q. But would there not have been more humanity in showing them their danger ? A. I did not go there for human- ity : I went racking . ( In truth ...
... lights ? A. No , no ( laughing ) : we always put them out , for a better chance by night . Q. But would there not have been more humanity in showing them their danger ? A. I did not go there for human- ity : I went racking . ( In truth ...
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... light of these , sometimes through galleries cut into the rock , sometimes des- cending along ladders , and some- times crossing frail bridges , sus- pended over terrible abysses . The mineral , which appertains to a company of two ...
... light of these , sometimes through galleries cut into the rock , sometimes des- cending along ladders , and some- times crossing frail bridges , sus- pended over terrible abysses . The mineral , which appertains to a company of two ...
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... light on a bad soil , and want its proper nurture , which nothing but an excellent education can be- stow . In this case he is depraved by the public example , the theatres that inspire it with false opinions , terrify it with false ...
... light on a bad soil , and want its proper nurture , which nothing but an excellent education can be- stow . In this case he is depraved by the public example , the theatres that inspire it with false opinions , terrify it with false ...
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... light the manners of the people in Philadelphia appear to foreigners I know not ; perhaps they may be surprised to find less good manners here than in Europe ; a proposition , however , which I do not fully assent to . But is Mr. W. to ...
... light the manners of the people in Philadelphia appear to foreigners I know not ; perhaps they may be surprised to find less good manners here than in Europe ; a proposition , however , which I do not fully assent to . But is Mr. W. to ...
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Page 180 - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide ; To lose good days that might be better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; To feed on hope ; to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy Prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Page 230 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
Page 292 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me: Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Page 343 - Paradise Lost is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure.
Page 49 - tis not to adorn and gild each part, That shows more cost than art. Jewels at nose and lips but ill appear ; Rather than all things wit, let none be there, Several lights will not be seen, If there be nothing else between. Men donbt, because they stand so thick i' th
Page 118 - I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave; and success and miscarriage are empty sounds. I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.
Page 143 - Go, lovely Rose! Tell her, that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Tell her that's young And shuns to have her graces spied, That hadst thou sprung In deserts, where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died. Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired: Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desired, And not...
Page 178 - Thence doth by Huntingdon and Cambridge flit, My mother Cambridge, whom as with a Crowne He doth adorne, and is adorn'd of it With many a gentle Muse and many a learned wit.
Page 379 - But, with submission, I think we may be better known by our looks than by our words, and that a man's speech is much more easily disguised than his countenance. In this case, however, I think the air of the whole face is much more expressive than the lines of it. The truth of it is, the air is generally nothing else but the inward disposition of the mind made visible.
Page 21 - ... leading from the navigable waters emptying into the Atlantic, to the Ohio, to the said state, and through the same, such roads to be laid out under the authority of Congress, with the consent of the several states through which the road shall pass...