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The taste and gallantry of the age may have at last pretty generally sanctioned
the ardent admiration with which we greeted the first steps of this distinguished
lady in her literary career ; but the calmer spirits of the south can hardly yet ...
The taste and gallantry of the age may have at last pretty generally sanctioned
the ardent admiration with which we greeted the first steps of this distinguished
lady in her literary career ; but the calmer spirits of the south can hardly yet ...
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Wine sometimes makes him noisy , but bever makes him gay ; and , whatever be
his excesses , he commits them seeiningly without temptation from taste or
passion . He keeps a furiously expensive mistress , whom he curses , and who
curses ...
Wine sometimes makes him noisy , but bever makes him gay ; and , whatever be
his excesses , he commits them seeiningly without temptation from taste or
passion . He keeps a furiously expensive mistress , whom he curses , and who
curses ...
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preöminence ! For our part , we confess , we think the clumsy machinery of
majesty , and the cumbrous agency of those superior beings vulgarly known by
the name of ministers and favourites , so extremely unlike the simpler and purer
taste of ...
preöminence ! For our part , we confess , we think the clumsy machinery of
majesty , and the cumbrous agency of those superior beings vulgarly known by
the name of ministers and favourites , so extremely unlike the simpler and purer
taste of ...
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FROM THE QUARTERLY REVIEW . [ It is often not less instructive than amusing
to observe the very different lights in which the same object may appear to
persons of dissimilar tastes and habits of mind . The Edinburgh reviewers have
always ...
FROM THE QUARTERLY REVIEW . [ It is often not less instructive than amusing
to observe the very different lights in which the same object may appear to
persons of dissimilar tastes and habits of mind . The Edinburgh reviewers have
always ...
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The hand of the author is never perceived , ( as it almost constantly is in our
modern comedies , to the entire disgust of all persons of tolerable taste , ) but
they are led in the most natural manner imaginable , and with . out saying any
thing that ...
The hand of the author is never perceived , ( as it almost constantly is in our
modern comedies , to the entire disgust of all persons of tolerable taste , ) but
they are led in the most natural manner imaginable , and with . out saying any
thing that ...
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Page 516 - He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
Page 433 - Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. Oh, say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Page 420 - Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsy charm, To bless the doors from nightly harm.
Page 433 - Oh ! say, can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming...
Page 418 - For other things mild Heaven a time ordains, And disapproves that care, though wise in show, That with superfluous burden loads the day, And, when God sends a cheerful hour, refrains.
Page 424 - On shining altars of japan they raise The silver lamp ; the fiery spirits blaze : From silver spouts the grateful liquors glide, While China's earth receives the smoking tide: At once they gratify their scent and taste, And frequent cups prolong the rich repast.
Page 422 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Page 419 - LAWRENCE, of virtuous father virtuous son, Now that the fields are dank, and ways are mire, Where shall we sometimes meet, and by the fire Help waste a sullen day, what may be won From the hard season gaining? Time will run On smoother, till Favonius reinspire The frozen earth, and clothe in fresh attire The lily and rose, that neither sowed nor spun.
Page 434 - Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave: And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Page 286 - You may break, you may shatter the vase if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.