American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 8Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew 1836 - American periodicals |
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... human passion , and human feeling and character . He limits his invention to probable and possible situations ; and never dreams that he can increase the interest of his piece , by travelling beyond the bounds of probability , and ...
... human passion , and human feeling and character . He limits his invention to probable and possible situations ; and never dreams that he can increase the interest of his piece , by travelling beyond the bounds of probability , and ...
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... human life . Must I believe , must you believe , that all this fair scene is to end forever at death ? That you , bound to each other by so many ties , are to be separated , and both of you to be divided from Zenobia , and all of us to ...
... human life . Must I believe , must you believe , that all this fair scene is to end forever at death ? That you , bound to each other by so many ties , are to be separated , and both of you to be divided from Zenobia , and all of us to ...
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... human life . I hold the highest lot to be unsatisfying . You admit all are so , but have shown me that there is a nearer approach to an equality of happiness than I had supposed , though evil weighs upon all . How the mind longs and ...
... human life . I hold the highest lot to be unsatisfying . You admit all are so , but have shown me that there is a nearer approach to an equality of happiness than I had supposed , though evil weighs upon all . How the mind longs and ...
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... human figure , he could hope to find none so perfect as that of Longinus . ' " " That makes it the foolisher and stranger , ' said Fausta , ' that he should labor at his toilet as he so manifestly does . Why can he not rely , for his ...
... human figure , he could hope to find none so perfect as that of Longinus . ' " " That makes it the foolisher and stranger , ' said Fausta , ' that he should labor at his toilet as he so manifestly does . Why can he not rely , for his ...
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... human . But I find nothing which can be dignified with the name of religion . Their systems of morals are admirable , and sufficient perhaps to enable one to live a happy or fortunate life . But concerning the soul of man , and its ...
... human . But I find nothing which can be dignified with the name of religion . Their systems of morals are admirable , and sufficient perhaps to enable one to live a happy or fortunate life . But concerning the soul of man , and its ...
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Page 436 - 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 450 - ... 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 435 - 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.