The Yale Literary Magazine, Volume 18Herrick & Noyes., 1853 - College students' writings, American |
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... course , discourages its farther use . Triumphs identify the victor with the times of their occurrence . They tie him to his old policy , no matter how unsuited to new ideas . He is likely to worry his adherents by considering their ...
... course , discourages its farther use . Triumphs identify the victor with the times of their occurrence . They tie him to his old policy , no matter how unsuited to new ideas . He is likely to worry his adherents by considering their ...
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... course which is honorable or profitable . To gain the triumph , the statesman almost always forms such an alliance between casuistry and conscience as shall not soon be again available . He who is thus swollen into an embodiment of some ...
... course which is honorable or profitable . To gain the triumph , the statesman almost always forms such an alliance between casuistry and conscience as shall not soon be again available . He who is thus swollen into an embodiment of some ...
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... courses , which form a rushing , foaming stream , appro- priately named Mad River . Huge bowlders dam up the channels , and the debris of the spring freshets present a continual chevaux de frise to the resolute sportsman . After leaping ...
... courses , which form a rushing , foaming stream , appro- priately named Mad River . Huge bowlders dam up the channels , and the debris of the spring freshets present a continual chevaux de frise to the resolute sportsman . After leaping ...
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... course , make a fire if you have matches ; but if not , don't wear your patience and your fingers in stick - rubbing ; try rather to for- get that it is cold , and be thankful that you haven't a thermometer . You will be fortunate if ...
... course , make a fire if you have matches ; but if not , don't wear your patience and your fingers in stick - rubbing ; try rather to for- get that it is cold , and be thankful that you haven't a thermometer . You will be fortunate if ...
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... course of time they married . In the course of time , they - in fact — their family consisted of three instead of two , and a little merman kicked around among the star fish and the polypuses , and was frightened by the great kraken ...
... course of time they married . In the course of time , they - in fact — their family consisted of three instead of two , and a little merman kicked around among the star fish and the polypuses , and was frightened by the great kraken ...
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Page 68 - Mr. President, — When the mariner has been tossed for many days in thick weather, and on an unknown sea, he naturally avails himself of the first pause in the storm, the earliest glance of the sun, to take his latitude, and ascertain how far the elements have driven him from his true course.
Page 349 - Indeed, my good scholar, we may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, " Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did...
Page 70 - An aged man, without an enemy in the world, in his own house, and in his own bed, is made the victim of a butcherly murder, for mere pay.
Page 349 - No life, my honest scholar, no life so happy and so pleasant as the life of a well-governed angler; for when the lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silent silver streams, which we now see glide so quietly by us.
Page 347 - I sat down, when I was last this way a-fishing, and the birds in the adjoining grove seemed to have a friendly contention with an echo, whose dead voice seemed to live in a hollow tree, near to the brow of that primrose-hill...
Page 126 - Arches on arches ! as it were that Rome, Collecting the chief trophies of her line, Would build up all her triumphs in one dome, Her Coliseum stands ; the moonbeams shine As 'twere its natural torches, for divine Should be the light which streams here, to illume This long-explored but still exhaustless mine Of contemplation ; and the azure gloom Of an Italian night, where the deep skies assume Hues which have words, and speak to ye of heaven, Floats o'er this vast and wondrous monument, And shadows...
Page 6 - The planets, all the infinite host of heaven, Are shining on the sad abodes of death, Through the still lapse of ages. All that tread The globe are but a handful to the tribes That slumber in its bosom.
Page 349 - ... when I would beget content, and increase confidence in the power, and wisdom, and providence of Almighty God, I will walk the meadows, by some gliding stream, and there contemplate the lilies that take no care, and those very many other various little living creatures that are not only created, but fed, man knows not how, by the goodness of the God of Nature, and therefore trust in him.
Page 150 - Here we may reign secure: and in my choice. To reign is worth ambition, though in hell ; Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
Page 346 - THERE are no colours in the fairest sky So fair as these. The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an Angel's wing.