The American Monthly Magazine, Volumen1Peirce and Williams, 1829 |
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... believe the introduction of such ingredients in criti- cism pernicious , and beneath the dignity of a writer for the public eye , serving no good end , and contributing to the amusement of the malicious , at the expense of feelings ...
... believe the introduction of such ingredients in criti- cism pernicious , and beneath the dignity of a writer for the public eye , serving no good end , and contributing to the amusement of the malicious , at the expense of feelings ...
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... believe that it is not superstition . I do not think we know how exquisitely nature's many voices are attuned to harmony , and to each other . The old philosopher we read of might not have been dreaming when he discovered that the order ...
... believe that it is not superstition . I do not think we know how exquisitely nature's many voices are attuned to harmony , and to each other . The old philosopher we read of might not have been dreaming when he discovered that the order ...
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... believe in my heart that a dumb bird would die of its imprisoned fulness . Nature seems never so utterly still to me as in the depth of a summer afternoon . The heat has driven in the birds , and the leaves hang motionless in the trees ...
... believe in my heart that a dumb bird would die of its imprisoned fulness . Nature seems never so utterly still to me as in the depth of a summer afternoon . The heat has driven in the birds , and the leaves hang motionless in the trees ...
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... believe that there was a Sabbath in nature , and that the dumb works of God rendered visible worship for his goodness . The effect of nature alone is purifying , and its thousand evidences of wisdom are too eloquent of their Maker not ...
... believe that there was a Sabbath in nature , and that the dumb works of God rendered visible worship for his goodness . The effect of nature alone is purifying , and its thousand evidences of wisdom are too eloquent of their Maker not ...
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... believe , that the peculiar character of every school of literature , may be , to a great degree , accounted for , by carefully studying the circumstances under which it was formed . If we examine the history of letters under the ...
... believe , that the peculiar character of every school of literature , may be , to a great degree , accounted for , by carefully studying the circumstances under which it was formed . If we examine the history of letters under the ...
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Página 265 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily : when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Página 265 - This is mentioned to vindicate tragedy from the small esteem, or rather infamy, which in the account of many it undergoes at this day, with other common interludes; happening through the poets' error of intermixing comic stuff with tragic sadness and gravity, or introducing trivial and vulgar persons; which by all judicious hath been counted absurd and brought in without discretion, corruptly to gratify the people.
Página 434 - Blind with thine hair the eyes of Day; Kiss her until she be wearied out, Then wander o'er city, and sea, and land, Touching all with thine opiate wand— Come, long-sought!
Página 272 - Caesar must bleed for it. And, gentle friends, Let's kill him boldly, but not wrathfully; Let's carve him as a dish fit for the gods, Not hew him as a carcass fit for hounds...
Página 258 - Next, for hear me out now, readers, that I may tell ye whither my younger feet wandered, I betook me among those lofty fables and romances which recount in solemn cantos the deeds of knighthood founded by our victorious kings, and from hence had in renown over all Christendom.
Página 21 - And time and place are lost ; where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy, amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand...
Página 168 - O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies : The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light.
Página 434 - When I arose and saw the dawn, I sighed for thee; When light rode high, and the dew was gone, And noon lay heavy on flower and tree, And the weary Day turned to his rest, Lingering like an unloved guest, I sighed for thee. Thy brother Death came, and cried, Wouldst thou me ? Thy sweet child Sleep, the filmy-eyed, Murmured like a noontide bee, Shall I nestle near thy side ? Wouldst thou me?
Página 432 - Yet now despair itself is mild, Even as the winds and waters are; I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne and yet must bear...
Página 382 - ... an unheeded process in the skeleton of a mole, and whose mind like his microscope perceives nature only in detail ; the rhymer who makes smooth verses, and paints to our imagination when he should only speak to our hearts; all equally fancy themselves walking forward to immortality, and desire the crowd behind them to look on. The crowd takes them at their word. Patriot, philosopher, and poet, are shouted in their train. Where was there ever so much merit seen ; no times so important as our own...