The Yale Literary Magazine, Volume 18Herrick & Noyes., 1853 - College students' writings, American |
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... seems the rule , to which exceptions are few , that one grand round of triumphs ends all of a statesman's course ... seems to be , that , in working out courses of political action their glory and emolument will come much more from ...
... seems the rule , to which exceptions are few , that one grand round of triumphs ends all of a statesman's course ... seems to be , that , in working out courses of political action their glory and emolument will come much more from ...
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... seem to warrant us in saying that stoutly to maintain some magnificently impu- dent lie , to make unbounded faith in national destiny atone for thievery , and to sneer at all common argument , is all that is needful . Take for in ...
... seem to warrant us in saying that stoutly to maintain some magnificently impu- dent lie , to make unbounded faith in national destiny atone for thievery , and to sneer at all common argument , is all that is needful . Take for in ...
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... seems more reliable ; but to manage the combinations , the latter use an energy and tact which not unfrequently gives them the prefer- ence . The latter , in making these combinations , are often heedless , and sometimes wanton . Often ...
... seems more reliable ; but to manage the combinations , the latter use an energy and tact which not unfrequently gives them the prefer- ence . The latter , in making these combinations , are often heedless , and sometimes wanton . Often ...
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... seems as if we ourselves were living in those days ; we are carried back to by - gone times and mingle in familiar intercourse with our fathers , who have long since passed away " for aye ! " It is not as if we heard all this from ...
... seems as if we ourselves were living in those days ; we are carried back to by - gone times and mingle in familiar intercourse with our fathers , who have long since passed away " for aye ! " It is not as if we heard all this from ...
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are coarse and disgusting ; to a superficial reader they may seem licen- tious and vicious to an eminent degree ; but look more carefully , and see with what matchless skill their characters are drawn . Good parson Adams , honest Joseph ...
are coarse and disgusting ; to a superficial reader they may seem licen- tious and vicious to an eminent degree ; but look more carefully , and see with what matchless skill their characters are drawn . Good parson Adams , honest Joseph ...
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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.