The North American Review, Band 50Jared Sparks, James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett, Henry Cabot Lodge O. Everett, 1840 Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... poet and philosopher , had as utterly passed away as the delicious and racy language of the ancient drama , or the sweet superstition of the Fairies . " We have endeavoured to give a few of the more obvious reasons for the non ...
... poet and philosopher , had as utterly passed away as the delicious and racy language of the ancient drama , or the sweet superstition of the Fairies . " We have endeavoured to give a few of the more obvious reasons for the non ...
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... poet with inexhaustible materials . It was now a king , imprisoned in a dark tower , and his faithful minstrel travelling in search of him , across mountains and along rivers , the sound of his harp reaching the ears of the monarch ...
... poet with inexhaustible materials . It was now a king , imprisoned in a dark tower , and his faithful minstrel travelling in search of him , across mountains and along rivers , the sound of his harp reaching the ears of the monarch ...
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... poet , and the dreams of the poet fell short of human credu- lity . Turbaned heroes crowded the groves of England and France ; fairies and genii became the household gods of all Christendom . Love , glowing with all the fire that ...
... poet , and the dreams of the poet fell short of human credu- lity . Turbaned heroes crowded the groves of England and France ; fairies and genii became the household gods of all Christendom . Love , glowing with all the fire that ...
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... poet- ry , and the recollections of other times , that its connexion with the real life of to - day , is like that of a cloud picture in the distant horizon , with the landscape of the solid earth beneath it . To keep up the consistency ...
... poet- ry , and the recollections of other times , that its connexion with the real life of to - day , is like that of a cloud picture in the distant horizon , with the landscape of the solid earth beneath it . To keep up the consistency ...
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... poets , which illustrate the literary conversations , are perfect gems in their way . Any one , who has attempted the task of poetical translation from a foreign tongue , will appre- ciate fully the excellences of these , and will ...
... poets , which illustrate the literary conversations , are perfect gems in their way . Any one , who has attempted the task of poetical translation from a foreign tongue , will appre- ciate fully the excellences of these , and will ...
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Seite 268 - And with them the Being Beauteous, Who unto my youth was given, More than all things else to love me, And is now a saint in heaven. With a slow and noiseless footstep Comes that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine. And she sits and gazes at me With those deep and tender eyes, Like the stars, so still and saint-like, Looking downward from the skies.
Seite 191 - O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.
Seite 341 - God, and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the Colony unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.
Seite 267 - When the hours of Day are numbered, And the voices of the Night Wake the better soul, that slumbered, To a holy, calm delight ; Ere the evening lamps are lighted, And, like phantoms grim and tall, Shadows from the fitful fire-light Dance upon the parlour wall; Then the forms of the departed Enter at the open door ; The beloved, the true-hearted, Come to visit me once more...
Seite 369 - Few sorrows hath she of her own, My hope! my joy! my Genevieve! She loves me best whene'er I sing The songs that make her grieve.
Seite 291 - FOX. 3s. 6d. * HISTORY OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH ; from the Ascension of Jesus Christ to the Conversion of Constantine. By the late Rev.
Seite 504 - 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, nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her siren daughters...
Seite 267 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Seite 266 - Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! — For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem.
Seite 133 - ... to the vessels, citizens, and subjects of the two Powers: it being well understood, that this agreement is not to be construed...