The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 8Leavitt, Trow, & Company, 1846 - American literature |
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... side , and or to advise him on the means of establish - resistance might have ended in bloodshed . ing his innocence , should expiate their au- Possibly these eminent lawyers thought dacity in a jail ! It would not be a whit that they ...
... side , and or to advise him on the means of establish - resistance might have ended in bloodshed . ing his innocence , should expiate their au- Possibly these eminent lawyers thought dacity in a jail ! It would not be a whit that they ...
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... side of the quarrel . Even where it brings out the names of pri- vate individuals , it affects them much less than they themselves could expect ; since due allowance is made for ex parte state- ments , character cannot permanently ...
... side of the quarrel . Even where it brings out the names of pri- vate individuals , it affects them much less than they themselves could expect ; since due allowance is made for ex parte state- ments , character cannot permanently ...
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... side of the quarrel . In passing the Act of Parliament , it was taken for granted that private feelings would be considered in these publications , and that nothing injurious would be sanc- tioned without an ascertained necessity . This ...
... side of the quarrel . In passing the Act of Parliament , it was taken for granted that private feelings would be considered in these publications , and that nothing injurious would be sanc- tioned without an ascertained necessity . This ...
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... side , —would , with his conscientious- ness , amount at times almost to despair.- And when such thoughts came on at inter- vals , wave upon wave , deep calling unto deep , for several weeks , is it surprising that he should pour out ...
... side , —would , with his conscientious- ness , amount at times almost to despair.- And when such thoughts came on at inter- vals , wave upon wave , deep calling unto deep , for several weeks , is it surprising that he should pour out ...
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... side . We have said that when the strife about the Interim broke out , Melanchthon was be- tween two fires . On the one side were the ad- vocates of the imperial or Augsburg Interim , including his old enemy Agricola ; on the other ...
... side . We have said that when the strife about the Interim broke out , Melanchthon was be- tween two fires . On the one side were the ad- vocates of the imperial or Augsburg Interim , including his old enemy Agricola ; on the other ...
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Page 134 - WE watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life . Kept heaving to and fro. So silently we...
Page 502 - Hark, where my blossomed pear-tree in the hedge Leans to the field and scatters on the clover Blossoms and dewdrops — at the bent spray's edge- — That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, Lest you should think he never could recapture The first fine careless rapture!
Page 475 - Even such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with earth and dust ; Who, in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days ; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust ! ELIZABETHAN MISCELLANIES.
Page 497 - Memory and her siren daughters, but by 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 289 - He told how murderers walk the earth Beneath the curse of Cain, — With crimson clouds before their eyes, And flames about their brain. For blood has left upon their souls Its everlasting stain! "And well...
Page 11 - By causing several good subjects, being protestants, to be disarmed at the same time when papists were both armed and employed, contrary to law.
Page 291 - Still, for all slips of hers, One of Eve's family — Wipe those poor lips of hers Oozing so clammily. Loop up her tresses Escaped from the comb, Her fair auburn tresses; Whilst wonderment guesses Where was her home? Who was her father? Who was her mother? Had she a sister? Had she a brother? Or was there a dearer one Still, and a nearer one Yet, than all other?
Page 85 - The intense view of these manifold contradictions and imperfections in human reason has so wrought upon me, and heated my brain, that I am ready to reject all belief and reasoning, and can look upon no opinion even as more probable or likely than another.
Page 291 - Where the lamps quiver So far in the river, With many a light From window and casement, From garret to basement, She stood with amazement, Houseless by night. The bleak wind of March Made her tremble and shiver, But not the dark arch, Or the black flowing river ; Mad from life's history, Glad to death's mystery Swift to be hurled — Anywhere, anywhere Out of the world ! In she plunged boldly, No matter how coldly The rough river ran.
Page 502 - OH, TO BE in England Now that April's there, And whoever wakes in England Sees, some morning, unaware, That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf, While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough In England - now...