Miscellanies Selected from the Public Journals, Volume 2Joseph T. Buckingham, 1824 - American literature |
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... Hands Peter Twink - Parody on a Parody Western Wit A Sailor's Petition Stupidity vs. Genius Important Duel Gulling Commencement at Yale College The Crah and the Oyster The Sham Action The Gathering Visit to the Cotton Factories Visit to ...
... Hands Peter Twink - Parody on a Parody Western Wit A Sailor's Petition Stupidity vs. Genius Important Duel Gulling Commencement at Yale College The Crah and the Oyster The Sham Action The Gathering Visit to the Cotton Factories Visit to ...
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... hand , and tumble down masses of rock , which it would require ages to crumble away . There is a height in the rear of this fort , which would have commanded it ; but that , as well as others in the neigh- bourhood , were strongly ...
... hand , and tumble down masses of rock , which it would require ages to crumble away . There is a height in the rear of this fort , which would have commanded it ; but that , as well as others in the neigh- bourhood , were strongly ...
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... hand of SCIENCE pointed out the way In which the sun - beams , glancing from the west , Fall on the watery cloud , whose darksome veil Involves th ' Orient . " AKENSIDE . The Military Academy at West Point was established by law in 1802 ...
... hand of SCIENCE pointed out the way In which the sun - beams , glancing from the west , Fall on the watery cloud , whose darksome veil Involves th ' Orient . " AKENSIDE . The Military Academy at West Point was established by law in 1802 ...
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... hand , those of less brilliant minds are never urged to attend to more branches than they can acquire with a tolera- ble degree of application . This system has , moreover , the effect of a very powerful stimulus , since it is mani ...
... hand , those of less brilliant minds are never urged to attend to more branches than they can acquire with a tolera- ble degree of application . This system has , moreover , the effect of a very powerful stimulus , since it is mani ...
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... hand Could hardly buckle on his brand , To the raw boy , whose shaft and bow Were yet scarce terror to the crow ... hands which wield- ed these rusty spears , and caused these bayonets once proudly to bristle in the air at every blast of ...
... hand Could hardly buckle on his brand , To the raw boy , whose shaft and bow Were yet scarce terror to the crow ... hands which wield- ed these rusty spears , and caused these bayonets once proudly to bristle in the air at every blast of ...
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Page 18 - tis, to cast one's eyes so low! The crows and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon...
Page 18 - Come on, sir; here's the place: stand still. How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low! The crows and choughs that wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles: halfway down Hangs one that gathers samphire, dreadful trade!
Page 250 - There with its waving blade of green, The sea-flag streams through the silent water, And the crimson leaf of the dulse is seen To blush, like a banner bathed in slaughter...
Page 249 - DEEP in the wave is a coral grove, Where the purple mullet and gold-fish rove, Where the sea-flower spreads its leaves of blue, That never are wet with falling dew, But in bright and changeful beauty shine, Far down in the green and glassy brine.
Page 63 - And what are we That hear the question of that voice sublime ? O, what are all the notes that ever rung From war's vain trumpet by thy thundering side ? Yea, what is all the riot man can make In his short life to thy unceasing roar ? And yet, bold babbler, what art thou to HIM Who drowned a world and heaped the waters far Above its loftiest mountains ? — a light wave That breaks and whispers of its Maker's might.
Page 250 - ... like corn on the upland lea: And life, in rare and beautiful forms, Is sporting amid those bowers of stone, And is safe when the wrathful spirit of storms Has made the top of the wave his own; And when the ship from his fury flies, Where the myriad voices of ocean roar, When the wind-god frowns in the murky skies, And demons are waiting the wreck on shore; Then far below in the peaceful sea, The purple mullet and gold-fish rove, Where the waters murmur tranquilly, Through the bending twigs of...
Page 43 - Robbins was a Senator in the Congress of the United States from the State of...
Page 61 - mid the cheerless hours of night, A mother wandered with her child. As through the drifted snows she pressed, The babe was sleeping on her breast. And colder still the winds did blow, And darker hours of night came on, And deeper grew the drifts of snow — Her limbs were chilled, her strength was gone — " O God," she cried, in accents wild, " If I must perish, save my child!
Page 102 - Tis granted, and no plainer truth appears, Our most important are our earliest years ; The mind, impressible and soft, with ease Imbibes and copies what she hears and sees, And through life's labyrinth holds fast the clue, That education gives her, false or true.
Page 59 - The fox and the panther, both beasts of the night, Retire to their dens on the gleaming of light, And they spring with a free and a sorrowless track, For they know that their mates are expecting them back. Each bird and each beast, it is blessed in degree ; All nature is cheerful, all happy, but me.