The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 6Leavitt, Trow, & Company, 1867 - American literature |
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... fact that their personal intimacy was not close , more than from the lack of sympathy . A biography , written so im- mediately on the death of its subject , risks many perils , and of these it cannot be said that Mrs. Gaskell steered ...
... fact that their personal intimacy was not close , more than from the lack of sympathy . A biography , written so im- mediately on the death of its subject , risks many perils , and of these it cannot be said that Mrs. Gaskell steered ...
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... facts . Wherever you go , you see places of religious wor- ship ; every little town has meeting- houses , chapels , churches , conventicles by the score ; the newest settlement , where houses are sufficiently numerous to form the ...
... facts . Wherever you go , you see places of religious wor- ship ; every little town has meeting- houses , chapels , churches , conventicles by the score ; the newest settlement , where houses are sufficiently numerous to form the ...
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... fact . What I wish to express is my conviction , that in the West , not in the East , you must study the characteristics of the nation which ultimately will claim the title of American . If , as we may reasonably expect , the great ...
... fact . What I wish to express is my conviction , that in the West , not in the East , you must study the characteristics of the nation which ultimately will claim the title of American . If , as we may reasonably expect , the great ...
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... fact that education of a kind sufficiently high to interest its possessors on questions higher than those of mere food and raiment is almost universal in the West , and that , on the other hand , there is no large class of highly ...
... fact that education of a kind sufficiently high to interest its possessors on questions higher than those of mere food and raiment is almost universal in the West , and that , on the other hand , there is no large class of highly ...
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... fact , the deification of labor might , I think , be called , not inaptly , the especial characteristic of these new creeds and religions . So , if I judge rightly , these developments of faith are due to a reac- tion against the ...
... fact , the deification of labor might , I think , be called , not inaptly , the especial characteristic of these new creeds and religions . So , if I judge rightly , these developments of faith are due to a reac- tion against the ...
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Page 93 - Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day; And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale!
Page 194 - All that tread The globe are but a handful to the tribes That slumber in its bosom.
Page 412 - Like a tale of little meaning .though the words are strong; Chanted from an ill-used race of men that cleave the soil, Sow the seed, and reap the harvest with enduring toil, Storing yearly little dues of wheat, and wine and oil...
Page 265 - Then spoke King Arthur, breathing heavily: "What is it thou hast seen? or what hast heard?" And answer made the bold Sir Bedivere: "I heard the water lapping on the crag , And the long ripple washing in the reeds.
Page 2 - But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think...
Page 156 - I would build that dome in air, That sunny dome! those caves of ice! And all who heard should see them there, And all should cry, Beware!
Page 102 - Receive them free, and sell them by the weight; Bags of fiery opals, sapphires, amethysts, Jacinths, hard topaz, grass-green emeralds, Beauteous rubies, sparkling diamonds, And seld-seen costly stones of so great price, As one of them indifferently rated, And of a carat of this quantity, May serve, in peril of calamity, To ransom great kings from captivity...
Page 421 - Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen, who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.
Page 104 - To lie in cold obstruction and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world: or to be worse than worst Of those that lawless and incertain thought Imagine howling: — 'tis too horrible! The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay...
Page 110 - Phlegra with the heroic race were joined That fought at Thebes and Ilium, on each side Mixed with auxiliar gods ; and what resounds In fable or romance of Uther's son Begirt with British and Armoric knights ; And all who since, baptized or infidel, Jousted in Aspramont, or Montalban, Damasco, or Marocco, or Trebisond, Or whom Biserta sent from Afric shore, When Charlemain with all his peerage fell By Fontarabia.