The North American Review, Band 73University of Northern Iowa, 1851 Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... persons condemned to such a course of life would soon lose whatever native strength and elasticity of mind they might originally have possessed , and would become , even in their own eyes , mere literary drudges . But Southey's buoyancy ...
... persons condemned to such a course of life would soon lose whatever native strength and elasticity of mind they might originally have possessed , and would become , even in their own eyes , mere literary drudges . But Southey's buoyancy ...
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... persons , whose knowledge of me is scarcely skin deep , suppose I have no nerves , because I have great self - control so far as regards the surface , if it were not for great self - management , and what may be called a strict intel ...
... persons , whose knowledge of me is scarcely skin deep , suppose I have no nerves , because I have great self - control so far as regards the surface , if it were not for great self - management , and what may be called a strict intel ...
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... persons to purchase soda pow- ders when sold without a stamp , and then lay an informa- tion against the vendors , " he would instantly have resigned his office in disgust . The author of the Excursion probably evaded the difficulty by ...
... persons to purchase soda pow- ders when sold without a stamp , and then lay an informa- tion against the vendors , " he would instantly have resigned his office in disgust . The author of the Excursion probably evaded the difficulty by ...
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... persons who become bad subjects because they are necessitous , because the world is not their friend , nor the world's law , ' might be kept virtuous ( or , at least , withheld from mischief ) by being made happy , by early encour ...
... persons who become bad subjects because they are necessitous , because the world is not their friend , nor the world's law , ' might be kept virtuous ( or , at least , withheld from mischief ) by being made happy , by early encour ...
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America Anglo-Saxon auxiliary auxiliary verbs beautiful become Bede blacks Blennerhasset Boston called cause cent character Chile Christian church civilization colony constitution duties earth England English English language existence fact faith feel freedom friends give Hebrew Hebrew poetry honor human hundred important Indians influence interest island labor land language Latin Latin language learned less lexicographer Liberia living LXXIII manufactures Massachusetts maxima and minima means ment mind moral nation native nature never object Odin original Parsee passed peculiar persons poet poetic poetry political population portion possession present preterite principles produce Professor Gibbs race regard religious respect sanitary Saxon says seems Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy slave slavery South Southey spirit theory thing thought tion trade tribes truth unity verbs whole words Wordsworth writing York
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 32 - My days among the Dead are past; Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old: My never-failing friends are they, With whom I converse day by day.
Seite 441 - It is the right as well as the duty of all men in society, publicly, and at stated seasons, to worship the SUPREME BEING, the great creator and preserver of the universe.
Seite 262 - WHEN Israel went out of Egypt, The house of Jacob from a people of strange language ; Judah was his sanctuary, And Israel his dominion.
Seite 263 - Praise the Lord from the earth, ye dragons and all deeps. Fire and hail, snow and vapour, stormy wind fulfilling his word. Mountains and all hills, fruitful trees and all cedars. Beasts and all cattle, creeping things, and flying fowls. Kings of the earth, and all people ; princes, and all judges of the earth. Both young men and maidens, old men and children. Let them praise the name of the Lord : for his name alone is excellent, his glory is above the earth and heaven.
Seite 34 - ANGLO-SAXONICA.— Selections, in Prose and Verse, from •^*- Anglo-Saxon Literature, with an Introductory Ethnological Essay, and Notes, Critical and Explanatory. By Louis F. KLIPSTEIN, of the University of Giessen.
Seite 492 - You have given me praise for having reflected faithfully in my Poems the feelings of human nature. I would fain hope that I have done so. But a great Poet ought to do more than this: he ought, to a certain degree, to rectify men's feelings, to give them new compositions of feeling, to render their feelings more sane, pure, and permanent, in short, more consonant to [295] JUNE 1802 nature, that is, to eternal nature, and the great moving spirit of things.
Seite 310 - The English Language in its Elements and Forms. With a History of its Origin and Development. Abridged from the Octav
Seite 485 - Thence what the lofty grave tragedians taught In chorus or iambic, teachers best Of moral prudence, with delight received In brief sententious precepts, while they treat Of fate, and chance, and change in human life, High actions, and high passions best describing : Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratic, Shook the arsenal, and fulmined over Greece To Macedon and Artaxerxes...
Seite 29 - Here is a man at Keswick, who acts upon me as my own ghost would do. He is just what I was in 1794.
Seite 209 - In the blest kingdoms meek of joy and love. There entertain him all the Saints above In solemn troops, and sweet societies, That sing, and singing in their glory move, And wipe the tears for ever from his eyes.