American Quarterly Review, Volume 21Carey, Lea & Carey, 1837 - Serial publications |
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Page 61
... leaves you to infer that they do what none would dare to do that had either . In the progress of the narrative under consideration , we shall encounter such a company , and we shall have occasion to contrast their con- duct with that of ...
... leaves you to infer that they do what none would dare to do that had either . In the progress of the narrative under consideration , we shall encounter such a company , and we shall have occasion to contrast their con- duct with that of ...
Page 83
... leaves a chasm in my ar- rangements which cannot adequately be filled up . I had endeavoured to compose an administration , whose talents , integrity , names and dispositions , should at once inspire unbounded confidence in the public ...
... leaves a chasm in my ar- rangements which cannot adequately be filled up . I had endeavoured to compose an administration , whose talents , integrity , names and dispositions , should at once inspire unbounded confidence in the public ...
Page 95
... leaves it to explain how it got there , and why it came . Such was the military career of Colonel Burr , which , com- mencing at the age of nineteen , terminated at twenty - three , comprising within the period of rather more than four ...
... leaves it to explain how it got there , and why it came . Such was the military career of Colonel Burr , which , com- mencing at the age of nineteen , terminated at twenty - three , comprising within the period of rather more than four ...
Page 116
... leaves . Such processes , for ever going on , could only result from an irritation or excitement in the system similar to that which takes place in the animal economy . The bird , the bee , and the new - born child , have no more reason ...
... leaves . Such processes , for ever going on , could only result from an irritation or excitement in the system similar to that which takes place in the animal economy . The bird , the bee , and the new - born child , have no more reason ...
Page 117
... leaves hang loosely and without motion , and the unripe flaccid berries wither on the vines . Here an analogy can be traced between the ani- mal and plant ; but our object is chiefly to speak of vegetation , and not to draw comparisons ...
... leaves hang loosely and without motion , and the unripe flaccid berries wither on the vines . Here an analogy can be traced between the ani- mal and plant ; but our object is chiefly to speak of vegetation , and not to draw comparisons ...
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Page 399 - AT midnight, in his guarded tent, The Turk was dreaming of the hour When Greece, her knee in suppliance bent, Should tremble at his power ; In dreams, through camp and court, he bore The trophies of a conqueror ; In dreams his song of triumph heard. Then wore his monarch's signet ring, Then pressed that monarch's throne — a King ; As wild his thoughts, and gay of wing, As Eden's garden bird.
Page 5 - Through the high wood echoing shrill; Sometime walking, not unseen, By hedge-row elms, on hillocks green, Right against the eastern gate Where the great Sun begins his state Robed in flames and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight...
Page 300 - To envelop and contain celestial spirits. Never was such a sudden scholar made ; Never came reformation in a flood, With such a heady...
Page 399 - An hour passed on — the Turk awoke — That bright dream was his last; He woke to hear his sentries shriek, " To arms! they come! the Greek ! the Greek...
Page 52 - Hell heard the unsufferable noise, Hell saw Heaven ruining from Heaven, and would have fled Affrighted; but strict Fate had cast too deep Her dark foundations, and too fast had bound.
Page 497 - Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head. Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossom'd furze unprofitably gay, There, in his noisy mansion, skill'd to rule, The village master taught his little school...
Page 399 - They fought, like brave men, long and well ; They piled that ground with Moslem slain; They conquered— but Bozzaris fell, Bleeding at every vein. His few surviving comrades saw His smile when rang their proud hurrah, And the red field was won; Then saw in death his eyelids close, Calmly, as to a night's repose, Like flowers at set of sun.
Page 144 - Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury ; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury : that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all that thou settest thine hand to in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
Page 496 - The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whisp'ring lovers made...
Page 401 - Such graves as his are pilgrim-shrines, Shrines to no code or creed confined, — The Delphian vales, the Palestines, The Meccas of the mind.