American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 18Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew 1841 - American periodicals |
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... hope of winning the Golden Fleece ? First , because every body writes ; and , detesting an unfashionable character , I must follow the multitude to do evil . ' I have been reading , studying , and observing , in my manner , for the best ...
... hope of winning the Golden Fleece ? First , because every body writes ; and , detesting an unfashionable character , I must follow the multitude to do evil . ' I have been reading , studying , and observing , in my manner , for the best ...
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... Hope ? Here is Seneca , with many a wholesome restorative whereby thy mind may recover at least its firmness if not its elasticity . Hast thou ' ingorged greedily and without restraint ' of the world's unwholesome viands , till thy ...
... Hope ? Here is Seneca , with many a wholesome restorative whereby thy mind may recover at least its firmness if not its elasticity . Hast thou ' ingorged greedily and without restraint ' of the world's unwholesome viands , till thy ...
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... hope . If , in the beautiful belief of the Greeks , a dryad was imagined to inhabit every verdant oak , and a nymph to haunt each moss - girt fountain , how much more might we suppose the genius of the author to reside in every book ...
... hope . If , in the beautiful belief of the Greeks , a dryad was imagined to inhabit every verdant oak , and a nymph to haunt each moss - girt fountain , how much more might we suppose the genius of the author to reside in every book ...
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... hope was gone ; and weary and heart - sick , they looked forward to but one place , where there was a calm and holy peace ; where their toils would be ended forever - and that was the grave . Mechanics and boys with their tin kettles ...
... hope was gone ; and weary and heart - sick , they looked forward to but one place , where there was a calm and holy peace ; where their toils would be ended forever - and that was the grave . Mechanics and boys with their tin kettles ...
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... hope for a Christian's reward , ' * surely , thus ' to die is gain ! ' And in view of such a hope and such an end , well may we who , left behind to drag a maimed life , exclaim with the poet : ' O Death ! thy freezing kiss Emancipates ...
... hope for a Christian's reward , ' * surely , thus ' to die is gain ! ' And in view of such a hope and such an end , well may we who , left behind to drag a maimed life , exclaim with the poet : ' O Death ! thy freezing kiss Emancipates ...
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