The Yale Literary Magazine, Volume 18Herrick & Noyes., 1853 - College students' writings, American |
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... less astounded to find themselves towering among the nation's nota- bles . Before the wry face of this obsolete , and the wondering face of this nascent politician , the best of written comedy wants marrow ; a richer mine for gems of ...
... less astounded to find themselves towering among the nation's nota- bles . Before the wry face of this obsolete , and the wondering face of this nascent politician , the best of written comedy wants marrow ; a richer mine for gems of ...
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... less perhaps in the older party . Both refuse at times to distinguish the cleric from the laic — the principle which evidently has a mission , from the principle which evidently has not . There is , in either , too great haste in the ...
... less perhaps in the older party . Both refuse at times to distinguish the cleric from the laic — the principle which evidently has a mission , from the principle which evidently has not . There is , in either , too great haste in the ...
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... less fish gleams suddenly in the sunlight , quivering , writhing upon the barb ; every crimson spot aglow , the delicate fins outspread and translu → cent with inimitable hues , and the whole an alter 1852. ] 5 TROUT FISHING . Κούρη ...
... less fish gleams suddenly in the sunlight , quivering , writhing upon the barb ; every crimson spot aglow , the delicate fins outspread and translu → cent with inimitable hues , and the whole an alter 1852. ] 5 TROUT FISHING . Κούρη ...
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... less of fictitious personages than of real . ' Tis not the fact that " great men ” have lived , that arouses our soul to dare and will to do ; " but their virtues , which we emulate ; their talent , which we admire ; their success ...
... less of fictitious personages than of real . ' Tis not the fact that " great men ” have lived , that arouses our soul to dare and will to do ; " but their virtues , which we emulate ; their talent , which we admire ; their success ...
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... less important detail of life . The various modes of thought , the different classes of society , are here most strongly shown . It seems as if we ourselves were living in those days ; we are carried back to by - gone times and mingle ...
... less important detail of life . The various modes of thought , the different classes of society , are here most strongly shown . It seems as if we ourselves were living in those days ; we are carried back to by - gone times and mingle ...
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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.