The Yale Literary Magazine, Volume 18Herrick & Noyes., 1853 - College students' writings, American |
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... existence ? no opportunity of knowing the virtues they can never see or experience ? Here lies the province of the novelist and poet . He opens to our view every corner of the heart and gives the key to its most secret intentions . He ...
... existence ? no opportunity of knowing the virtues they can never see or experience ? Here lies the province of the novelist and poet . He opens to our view every corner of the heart and gives the key to its most secret intentions . He ...
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... existence of a plurality of bodies in the same place at the same time . Besides , we can hope to do no justice to the magnitude of our theme , even in an Editor's Table . How then shall we be expected to allude even , to any other topic ...
... existence of a plurality of bodies in the same place at the same time . Besides , we can hope to do no justice to the magnitude of our theme , even in an Editor's Table . How then shall we be expected to allude even , to any other topic ...
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... existence and appreciation of eloquence ; but general freedom of thought - thought neither fettered by superstition , nor circumscribed by ignorance , soon sends its life - giving power through all the arteries of the state , and shows ...
... existence and appreciation of eloquence ; but general freedom of thought - thought neither fettered by superstition , nor circumscribed by ignorance , soon sends its life - giving power through all the arteries of the state , and shows ...
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... existence , and when discussing a fact , deduces a principle : the fact may be forgotten , but the principle lives . The machinery of popular government is no sooner set in motion than num- berless questions arise at the bar , in the ...
... existence , and when discussing a fact , deduces a principle : the fact may be forgotten , but the principle lives . The machinery of popular government is no sooner set in motion than num- berless questions arise at the bar , in the ...
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... existence , turning the whole current of his thoughts , the whole strength of his energies , upon a great and righteous purpose , he stands forth the exponent of a class whose leader is Christ of Nazareth alone . Beware of the " driven ...
... existence , turning the whole current of his thoughts , the whole strength of his energies , upon a great and righteous purpose , he stands forth the exponent of a class whose leader is Christ of Nazareth alone . Beware of the " driven ...
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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.