Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volume 50John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele Leavitt, Throw and Company, 1860 - American periodicals |
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... ancient and modern litera- ture , endowed with a delightful vein of humor , and with an exquisite appreciation of it in others , he divided his time be- tween his books , his associates , and the pleasures of the town . He indulged in ...
... ancient and modern litera- ture , endowed with a delightful vein of humor , and with an exquisite appreciation of it in others , he divided his time be- tween his books , his associates , and the pleasures of the town . He indulged in ...
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... ancient measure could not be approached , but the blank verse of Cowper's translation has a fuller swell and greater variety of cadence than his Task and is in general , sufficient to sustain the ideas . His version is not , It was ...
... ancient measure could not be approached , but the blank verse of Cowper's translation has a fuller swell and greater variety of cadence than his Task and is in general , sufficient to sustain the ideas . His version is not , It was ...
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... ancient type , or long extinct mollusks ; while reptiles equally gigantic , and of still stranger proportions , haunted the neigh- boring swamps and savannahs ; and when the same sun that shone on the tall mov- ing forms beside the ...
... ancient type , or long extinct mollusks ; while reptiles equally gigantic , and of still stranger proportions , haunted the neigh- boring swamps and savannahs ; and when the same sun that shone on the tall mov- ing forms beside the ...
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... ancient poets . But now that hundreds of their footprints , as fresh and distinct as if yesterday impressed upon the mud , arrest the attention of the skeptic on the ample slabs of our cabinets , he might as reasonably doubt his own ...
... ancient poets . But now that hundreds of their footprints , as fresh and distinct as if yesterday impressed upon the mud , arrest the attention of the skeptic on the ample slabs of our cabinets , he might as reasonably doubt his own ...
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... ancient history , and have rendered them very attractive to young people . But these books can hardly be placed in the class of pure fictions , and there is an air of real history about them which will always make them liable to be ...
... ancient history , and have rendered them very attractive to young people . But these books can hardly be placed in the class of pure fictions , and there is an air of real history about them which will always make them liable to be ...
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Page 48 - And hark ! like the roar of the billows on the shore, The cry of battle rises along their charging line: For God! for the Cause! for the Church! for the Laws! For Charles, King of England, and Rupert of the Rhine! The furious German comes, with his clarions and his drums, His bravoes of Alsatia, and pages of Whitehall; They are bursting on our flanks! Grasp your pikes! Close your ranks!
Page 298 - But, hark! the cry is Astur: And lo ! the ranks divide ; And the great lord of Luna Comes with his stately stride. Upon his ample shoulders Clangs loud the fourfold shield, And in his hand he shakes the brand Which none but he can wield.
Page 2 - My boast is not that I deduce my birth From loins enthroned, and rulers of the earth; But higher far my proud pretensions rise,— The son of parents passed into the skies!
Page 44 - Hence in a season of calm weather, Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.
Page 525 - My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard. "Thus fares it still in our decay: And yet the wiser mind Mourns less for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind.
Page 474 - twere anew, the gaps of centuries ; Leaving that beautiful which still was so, And making that which was not, till the place Became religion, and the heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old ! — The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns.
Page 539 - God hath chosen the weak things of this world to confound the things which are mighty...
Page 298 - Then, whirling up his broadsword With both hands to the height, He rushed against Horatius, And smote with all his might. With shield and blade Horatius Right deftly turned the blow: The blow, though turned, came yet too nigh; It missed his helm, but gashed his thigh : The Tuscans raised a joyful cry To see the red blood flow.
Page 535 - Thou madst us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless till they find rest in Thee ! ' You are beginning to understand that St.
Page 5 - They whose spirits are formed like mine, to whom a public exhibition of themselves, on any occasion, is mortal poison, may have some idea of the horrors of my situation; others can have none.