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With regard to some of these objects , we believe novel reading to be entirely
useless or actually injurious ; and though with respect to others the end proposed
may be attained , we shall endeavor to show that there are other means of ...
With regard to some of these objects , we believe novel reading to be entirely
useless or actually injurious ; and though with respect to others the end proposed
may be attained , we shall endeavor to show that there are other means of ...
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Why , you don ' t mean there ' s a funeral , or any thing of that kind , for the
chambermaid told me that only one man had died here in a year , and he was an
... By no means , " said I , “ but I don ' t think there ' s a coach or any thing of that
kind .
Why , you don ' t mean there ' s a funeral , or any thing of that kind , for the
chambermaid told me that only one man had died here in a year , and he was an
... By no means , " said I , “ but I don ' t think there ' s a coach or any thing of that
kind .
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In all else we acknowledge the power of form . In material symbols and in artistic
combinations of material symbols are found the means of quickening and
cultivating mind . We look to the appropriate and beautiful in nature for every
thing that ...
In all else we acknowledge the power of form . In material symbols and in artistic
combinations of material symbols are found the means of quickening and
cultivating mind . We look to the appropriate and beautiful in nature for every
thing that ...
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With the simple remark , then , that although Comedy may , high poetry cannot
keep pace with the progress of civilization , we will hasten to consider the means
by which these old days have been made familiar to us . And why is it that we no
...
With the simple remark , then , that although Comedy may , high poetry cannot
keep pace with the progress of civilization , we will hasten to consider the means
by which these old days have been made familiar to us . And why is it that we no
...
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A strong and striking contrast now presents itself in every thing , and in nothing is
the dissimilarity more marked than in the different means resorted to for the
purpose of cultivating a love of virtue . The beneficent ends then accomplished by
the ...
A strong and striking contrast now presents itself in every thing , and in nothing is
the dissimilarity more marked than in the different means resorted to for the
purpose of cultivating a love of virtue . The beneficent ends then accomplished by
the ...
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Page 286 - I remember, I remember Where I was used to swing, And thought the air must rush as fresh To swallows on the wing; My spirit flew in feathers then That is so heavy now, And summer pools could hardly cool The fever on my brow.
Page 325 - And when the sun begins to fling His flaring beams, me, goddess, bring To arched walks of twilight groves, And shadows brown, that Sylvan...
Page 277 - No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode, (There they alike in trembling hope repose) The bosom of his father and his God.
Page 277 - THE EPITAPH Here rests his head upon the lap of earth A youth to fortune and to fame unknown: Fair science frowned not on his humble birth, And melancholy marked him for her own.
Page 408 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in Heaven. As some tall cliff, that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
Page 311 - And wi' the lave ilk merry morn Could rank my rig and lass, Still shearing, and clearing The tither stocked raw, Wi' claivers, an' haivers, Wearing the day awa : Ev'n then a wish, (I mind its power,) A wish that to my latest hour Shall strongly heave my breast ; That I for poor auld Scotland's sake, Some usefu' plan, or beuk could make, Or sing a sang at least.
Page 148 - In happy climes, the seat of innocence, Where Nature guides and Virtue rules, Where men shall not impose for truth and sense The pedantry of courts and schools : There shall be sung another golden age, The rise of empire and of arts, The good and great inspiring epic rage, The wisest heads and noblest hearts.
Page 303 - To him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Page 274 - Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply ; And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die.
Page 366 - I cannot blame him : at my nativity The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes, Of burning cressets ; and at my birth The frame and huge foundation of the earth Shak'd like a coward.