The Yale Literary Magazine, Volume 20Herrick & Noyes., 1855 |
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... common sense conspire to disprove . Notwithstanding the vast immigration of Celtic , Teutonic , and other bloods in this country , three - fourths of the population may still be regarded as Anglo - Saxon . The character of the ...
... common sense conspire to disprove . Notwithstanding the vast immigration of Celtic , Teutonic , and other bloods in this country , three - fourths of the population may still be regarded as Anglo - Saxon . The character of the ...
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... common standard of the Constitution . It was not to be expected that , in reference to an instrument by no means absolute in its provisions , all should think alike . Accordingly , upon differences , not so much of principle as of ...
... common standard of the Constitution . It was not to be expected that , in reference to an instrument by no means absolute in its provisions , all should think alike . Accordingly , upon differences , not so much of principle as of ...
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... common with the first . It believed in no divine right of kings- acknowledged no absolute power - placed no confidence in the sufficiency of ancient restraints and established guarantees . If the rights and the liberty of the nation ...
... common with the first . It believed in no divine right of kings- acknowledged no absolute power - placed no confidence in the sufficiency of ancient restraints and established guarantees . If the rights and the liberty of the nation ...
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... common battle ground , in which a constant struggle has been enacting , often calling forth the gladiatorial exercise of intellectu- al power . The influence of this system has , we think , been highly ben- eficial . As from all the ...
... common battle ground , in which a constant struggle has been enacting , often calling forth the gladiatorial exercise of intellectu- al power . The influence of this system has , we think , been highly ben- eficial . As from all the ...
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... common pulse obeying , Still , o'er the soul , a strange control , Those imaged Lakes are swaying ! For ever still , through good or ill , Our homeward heart possessing , The troubled breast , with thoughts of rest , The calm Twin Lakes ...
... common pulse obeying , Still , o'er the soul , a strange control , Those imaged Lakes are swaying ! For ever still , through good or ill , Our homeward heart possessing , The troubled breast , with thoughts of rest , The calm Twin Lakes ...
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Page 189 - Came thro' the jaws of Death Back from the mouth of Hell, All that was left of them, Left of six hundred.
Page 216 - We will return no more;" And all at once they sang, "Our island home Is far beyond the wave; we will no longer roam.
Page 141 - And, star and system rolling past, A soul shall draw from out the vast And strike his being into bounds, And, moved thro' life of lower phase, Result in man, be born and think, And act and love a closer link Betwixt us and the crowning race...
Page 149 - Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north wind's breath, And stars to set - but all, Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death!
Page 218 - A pleasing land of drowsy-head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye ; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky...
Page 244 - In pride, in reasoning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell, Aspiring to be angels, men rebel ; And who but wishes to invert the laws Of Order, sins against th
Page 139 - Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before, But vaster.
Page 139 - STRONG Son of God, immortal Love, Whom we, that have not seen thy face, By faith, and faith alone, embrace, Believing where we cannot prove; Thine are these orbs of light and shade; Thou madest Life in man and brute ; Thou madest Death; and lo, thy foot Is on the skull which thou hast made. Thou wilt not leave us in the dust: Thou madest man, he knows not why, He thinks he was not made to die; And thou hast made him: thou art just.
Page 245 - Avaunt ! and quit my sight ! let the earth hide thee ! Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold ; Thou hast no speculation in those eyes Which thou dost glare with.
Page 148 - twas an ancient tale Before thy Shakespeare gave it deathless fame; The times have changed, the moral is the same. So like an outcast, dowerless and pale, Thy daughter went; and in a foreign gale Spread her young banner, till its sway became A wonder to the nations. Days of shame Are close upon thee; prophets raise their wail. When the rude Cossack with an outstretched hand Points his long spear across the narrow sea, — "Lo! there is England!