The Yale Literary Magazine, Volume 18Herrick & Noyes., 1853 - College students' writings, American |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 59
Page 8
... earth . Certain it is that novels , by giving a false and errone- ous idea of life and human nature , may exert a most pernicious influence upon the youthful and inexperienced mind ; but it becomes the duty of every parent to guard ...
... earth . Certain it is that novels , by giving a false and errone- ous idea of life and human nature , may exert a most pernicious influence upon the youthful and inexperienced mind ; but it becomes the duty of every parent to guard ...
Page 11
... Earth is veiled And mantled with its beauty ! " * But though the true purposes of a novel are so many , great and hon- orable , many there are among the hundreds , which , like a second deluge , are now inundating the literary world ...
... Earth is veiled And mantled with its beauty ! " * But though the true purposes of a novel are so many , great and hon- orable , many there are among the hundreds , which , like a second deluge , are now inundating the literary world ...
Page 15
... earth . The merboy was christened with great solemnity Noddi - the baptismal process consisted in pouring a quantity of air on him , brought from the surface in a huge oystershell by his god - father , a Triton . Air and water change ...
... earth . The merboy was christened with great solemnity Noddi - the baptismal process consisted in pouring a quantity of air on him , brought from the surface in a huge oystershell by his god - father , a Triton . Air and water change ...
Page 16
... earth . The last arrival of bodies were stripped to furnish his wardrobe - his shirts were washed and starched - he was enjoined not on any account to uncover the lower part of his body , lest his scales should be known and shown for a ...
... earth . The last arrival of bodies were stripped to furnish his wardrobe - his shirts were washed and starched - he was enjoined not on any account to uncover the lower part of his body , lest his scales should be known and shown for a ...
Page 17
... earth without trouble , by means of steam ; I will teach you to do likewise . ( Cheers . ) They plough the surface of the ground , so as to make it appear covered with straight lines in beautiful regularity ; we will also do it ...
... earth without trouble , by means of steam ; I will teach you to do likewise . ( Cheers . ) They plough the surface of the ground , so as to make it appear covered with straight lines in beautiful regularity ; we will also do it ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
American ensign amid Anarch ancient beauty beneath better cant character CHARLES ASTOR BRISTED Class College conservatism dark Diplomacy Drama dreams earth East Hartford Editor's Table Editors eloquence eternal evil eyes fact fair fame fear feel gaze genius give glory Greece hand heart heaven honor hope human idea Just-ice kind labor liberty light LINONIA literature live look mer-people mind moral nation nature neath never noble Noddi o'er Oration pass philosopher poet poetry political POTWIN present principles Prize reader reason reformer reputation rest Richard Waite ruins scholar seems seen sing smile smoke society Socrates Sophroniscus soul spirit stand strong student taste thee things thou thought tion trees true truth Uli-ali-ola-e Valensia voice walk wonder XVIII Yale College YALE LITERARY MAGAZINE York City young Zenobia
Popular passages
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.