American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 8Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew 1836 - American periodicals |
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Tasso is censurable in this respect ; and the fault is more glowing , by being mixed up with a great deal of Christian theology . The Lusiad of Camoens , otherwise a poem of great merit and uncommon interest , is exposed to this censure ...
Tasso is censurable in this respect ; and the fault is more glowing , by being mixed up with a great deal of Christian theology . The Lusiad of Camoens , otherwise a poem of great merit and uncommon interest , is exposed to this censure ...
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... as prone the gladiator fell , The peopled walls with vocal thunder rang ' Till heaven sent back its replicated swell ; There with strong faith subduing torture's pang , The Christian martyr smiled beneath the lion's fang . VIII .
... as prone the gladiator fell , The peopled walls with vocal thunder rang ' Till heaven sent back its replicated swell ; There with strong faith subduing torture's pang , The Christian martyr smiled beneath the lion's fang . VIII .
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Yon towering pillar , Trajan's triumph tells ; There the Pantheon stands - its deities Have bit the dust , the loud Hosanna swells Where once its priests revealed their auguries , And Christians at the altar bend their knees Where ...
Yon towering pillar , Trajan's triumph tells ; There the Pantheon stands - its deities Have bit the dust , the loud Hosanna swells Where once its priests revealed their auguries , And Christians at the altar bend their knees Where ...
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What Christian would not hob - nob with a fakir ? While ten feet square of ground , just where I stand , Would buy in ' holy rood ' at least an acre ? New things beneath old names we moderns mask ; Still by a turney men oft close their ...
What Christian would not hob - nob with a fakir ? While ten feet square of ground , just where I stand , Would buy in ' holy rood ' at least an acre ? New things beneath old names we moderns mask ; Still by a turney men oft close their ...
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You remember the sad tale concerning the Christian Probus , which Piso , in recounting the incidents of his journey from Rome to Palmyra , related to us while seated at the tables , • Indeed , I did not hear it , ' said Zenobia ...
You remember the sad tale concerning the Christian Probus , which Piso , in recounting the incidents of his journey from Rome to Palmyra , related to us while seated at the tables , • Indeed , I did not hear it , ' said Zenobia ...
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Page 434 - The cold sweat melted from their limbs, Nor rot nor reek did they: The look with which they looked on me Had never passed away. An orphan's curse would drag to hell A spirit from on high; But oh! more horrible than that Is the curse in a dead man's eye! Seven days, seven nights, I saw that curse, And yet I could not die.
Page 448 - ... devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Page 712 - Reason is natural revelation, whereby the eternal Father of light, and Fountain of all knowledge, communicates to mankind that portion of truth which he has laid within the reach of their natural faculties. Revelation is natural reason enlarged by a new set of discoveries, communicated by God immediately, which reason vouches the truth of, by the testimony and proofs it gives, that they come from God.
Page 593 - I see the dagger-crest of Mar, I see the Moray's silver star, Wave o'er the cloud of Saxon war, That up the lake comes winding far ! To hero bound for battle-strife, Or bard of martial lay, 'Twere worth ten years of peaceful life, One glance at their array ! XVI.
Page 300 - He who loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how shall he love God whom he hath not seen ? You, Mr.
Page 692 - BLOSSOMS FAIR pledges of a fruitful tree. Why do ye fall so fast? Your date is not so past, But you may stay yet here awhile To blush and gently smile, And go at last.
Page 379 - This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise or fear to fall: Lord of himself, though not of lands, And, having nothing, yet hath all.
Page 433 - But thou, my country, thou shalt never fall, Save with thy children — thy maternal care, Thy lavish love, thy blessings showered on all — These are thy fetters — seas and stormy air Are the wide barrier of thy borders, where, Among thy gallant sons...
Page 562 - In a word, the almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land, seems to have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages...
Page 631 - For my part, I cannot sufficiently bewail the condition of the reformed churches, who are come to a period in religion, and will go at present no farther than the instruments of their reformation.
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| Title | American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 8 |
| Editors | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew |
| Contributor | Washington Irving |
| Published | 1836 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 7 Sep 2005 |
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