The Analectic Magazine, Volume 4Published and sold by Moses Thomas, 1814 |
From inside the book
Page 53
... living soul , except the Indians , with whom , as is usual with white people , they made ex- cellent bargains . The sum of these transactions with the aboriginal inhabitants forms another item in the precious history of poor honest ...
... living soul , except the Indians , with whom , as is usual with white people , they made ex- cellent bargains . The sum of these transactions with the aboriginal inhabitants forms another item in the precious history of poor honest ...
Page 67
... living on the scent of frogs roasted on the coals - who , we suppose , were the ancestors of the French - or with others having each a goodly cabbage growing out behind , who were doubtless the forefathers of the valiant sour - krout ...
... living on the scent of frogs roasted on the coals - who , we suppose , were the ancestors of the French - or with others having each a goodly cabbage growing out behind , who were doubtless the forefathers of the valiant sour - krout ...
Page 73
... living per- sons , especially of those who either deserve no such notice , or may wish to deserve it better : but you have succeeded in per- suading me that a public writer , who pays attention to the drama , is a person of some ...
... living per- sons , especially of those who either deserve no such notice , or may wish to deserve it better : but you have succeeded in per- suading me that a public writer , who pays attention to the drama , is a person of some ...
Page 76
... living dead men , " the dra- matists and even the attorney - general and his right honourable friends , whose vigour consists in the persecution of newspapers , and whose genius in the waste of their country's blood , will recol- lect ...
... living dead men , " the dra- matists and even the attorney - general and his right honourable friends , whose vigour consists in the persecution of newspapers , and whose genius in the waste of their country's blood , will recol- lect ...
Page 84
... living plants of Pennsylvania , and dried specimens which he procured from his correspondents in various parts of this continent . He has generally avoided the insertion of any plant of foreign origin not perfectly naturalized to our ...
... living plants of Pennsylvania , and dried specimens which he procured from his correspondents in various parts of this continent . He has generally avoided the insertion of any plant of foreign origin not perfectly naturalized to our ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
acquainted admiration Æneid Analectic Anarchiad ancient animal appears Argan Barlow beautiful Brazil called Captain Porter character Chaturanga chess Columbiad critical DAVID PORTER death Edinburgh reviewers elegant enemy Essex eyes favour feelings fire formed France French friends Garrow Genesee river genius Gilbert Wakefield give Happahs heart honour human imagination interesting JOEL BARLOW Jourdain labour late learned letter literary living Lord Lord Byron manner means merit mind Montesquieu moral Moreau mountain native nature never New-York object observations opinions original Ovid perhaps person philosopher pleasure poem poet poetical poetry political present published Purgon quadrupeds racter reader remarkable respect seems Series ship soon species spirit Suinine talents taste thing thought tion truth verse virtue Voltaire volume Wakefield whole witness words writer Zayre
Popular passages
Page 516 - He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
Page 433 - Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. Oh, say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Page 420 - Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsy charm, To bless the doors from nightly harm.
Page 433 - Oh ! say, can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming...
Page 418 - For other things mild Heaven a time ordains, And disapproves that care, though wise in show, That with superfluous burden loads the day, And, when God sends a cheerful hour, refrains.
Page 424 - On shining altars of japan they raise The silver lamp ; the fiery spirits blaze : From silver spouts the grateful liquors glide, While China's earth receives the smoking tide: At once they gratify their scent and taste, And frequent cups prolong the rich repast.
Page 422 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Page 419 - LAWRENCE, of virtuous father virtuous son, Now that the fields are dank, and ways are mire, Where shall we sometimes meet, and by the fire Help waste a sullen day, what may be won From the hard season gaining? Time will run On smoother, till Favonius reinspire The frozen earth, and clothe in fresh attire The lily and rose, that neither sowed nor spun.
Page 434 - Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave: And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Page 286 - You may break, you may shatter the vase if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.