The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, Volume 18Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, John Holmes Agnew, Kinahan Cornwallis 1841 - American periodicals |
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Her Homer's lyre no hand can sweep , And he who erst addressed the deep , And warriors with their gleaming blades . The Grecian tongue is cold in death ! Yet ere expired its mighty breath , The temple's proudest niche had won ; Above ...
Her Homer's lyre no hand can sweep , And he who erst addressed the deep , And warriors with their gleaming blades . The Grecian tongue is cold in death ! Yet ere expired its mighty breath , The temple's proudest niche had won ; Above ...
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Those quips and quiddities have for him a poetic charm ; not like your raptures , fluttering and evanescent , but deep and abiding . The labyrinths of technical discussion may seem to you forbidding as the portals of the grave ; but to ...
Those quips and quiddities have for him a poetic charm ; not like your raptures , fluttering and evanescent , but deep and abiding . The labyrinths of technical discussion may seem to you forbidding as the portals of the grave ; but to ...
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Strong within me liveth Through all my outward strife , This deep faith , which giveth My quiet inner life . K N E MI DOL O GY . ' Looking round , With honest speculation in mine eye , In quest of food for thought , By Jove !
Strong within me liveth Through all my outward strife , This deep faith , which giveth My quiet inner life . K N E MI DOL O GY . ' Looking round , With honest speculation in mine eye , In quest of food for thought , By Jove !
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... like the molten lava from Ętna , streamed over the brim , and whitened the table around ; then I used to climb up the chair of the deep sleeper , and gazing over his shoulder , dimly ponder many a glorious page .
... like the molten lava from Ętna , streamed over the brim , and whitened the table around ; then I used to climb up the chair of the deep sleeper , and gazing over his shoulder , dimly ponder many a glorious page .
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exclaimed a conceited and effeminate voice , in the opposite corner , regardless of the deep solemnity of the occasion ; and up popped a foppish , fidgetty little fellow , with a small silken tassel swinging before him , who had ...
exclaimed a conceited and effeminate voice , in the opposite corner , regardless of the deep solemnity of the occasion ; and up popped a foppish , fidgetty little fellow , with a small silken tassel swinging before him , who had ...
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| Title | The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, Volume 18 The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, Charles Fenno Hoffman |
| Editors | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, John Holmes Agnew, Kinahan Cornwallis |
| Published | 1841 |
| Original from | University of Minnesota |
| Digitized | 4 Apr 2013 |
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