The North American Review, Volumen58Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge O. Everett, 1844 Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... whole of it among his se- lections . The general harmony of its numbers , its agreeable alternations of sentiment and satire , its numerous pictures of life , character , and manners , its vigorous thought and bril- liant wit , and the ...
... whole of it among his se- lections . The general harmony of its numbers , its agreeable alternations of sentiment and satire , its numerous pictures of life , character , and manners , its vigorous thought and bril- liant wit , and the ...
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... whole power of the mind from which they proceed . Few poets in Mr. Griswold's motley collection excel Fitz - Greene Halleck in popularity . His metrical composi- tions , though not deficient in high qualities , do not require a very ...
... whole power of the mind from which they proceed . Few poets in Mr. Griswold's motley collection excel Fitz - Greene Halleck in popularity . His metrical composi- tions , though not deficient in high qualities , do not require a very ...
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... whole reach of human sympathies by the range of his own , and calls that meaningless and unprofitable , which his own heart echoes feebly or not at all . Lust , false- hood , and intemperance have been so often idealized by bards , and ...
... whole reach of human sympathies by the range of his own , and calls that meaningless and unprofitable , which his own heart echoes feebly or not at all . Lust , false- hood , and intemperance have been so often idealized by bards , and ...
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... whole land as a book " which no young lady should read . " We think that Mr. Griswold's selections from " Zóphiël , " although they cannot give a full impression of its merits , prove that it contains poetical qualities which would ...
... whole land as a book " which no young lady should read . " We think that Mr. Griswold's selections from " Zóphiël , " although they cannot give a full impression of its merits , prove that it contains poetical qualities which would ...
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... whole of it ? Why should he , unless for the mere show of arms , surrender any vantage - ground lawfully acquired ? Hardly any other subject would bear to be thus treated ; and nothing gives us so high an idea of the overflowing fulness ...
... whole of it ? Why should he , unless for the mere show of arms , surrender any vantage - ground lawfully acquired ? Hardly any other subject would bear to be thus treated ; and nothing gives us so high an idea of the overflowing fulness ...
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Página 25 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time ; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Página 428 - You have been told that we are seditious, impatient of government, and desirous of independency. Be assured that these are not facts, but calumnies. Permit us to be as free as yourselves, and we shall ever esteem a union with you, to be our greatest glory, and our greatest happiness...
Página 422 - It is a partnership in all science ; a partnership in all art ; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.
Página 422 - Society is, indeed, a contract. Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occasional interest may be dissolved at pleasure ; but the state ought not to be considered as nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico or tobacco, or some other such low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary interest, and to be dissolved by the fancy of the parties.
Página 432 - Why may not illicit combinations, for purposes of violence, be formed as well by a majority of a State, especially a small State, as by a majority of a county or a district of the same State; and if the authority of the State ought in the latter case to protect the local magistracy, ought not the Federal authority, in the former, to support the State authority?
Página 25 - Yielding, yet half afraid, And in the forest's shade Our vows were plighted. Under its loosened vest Fluttered her little breast, Like birds within their nest By the hawk frighted.
Página 423 - ... into the antagonist world of madness, discord, vice, confusion, and unavailing sorrow.
Página 382 - Assembly, as they shall think fit; and to choose, nominate and appoint, such and so many other persons as they shall think fit, and shall be willing to accept the same, to be free of the said Company and body politic, and them into the same to admit...
Página 20 - The world is full of poetry — the air Is living with its spirit ; and the waves Dance to the music of its melodies, And sparkle in its brightness. Earth is veiled And mantled with its beauty ; and the walls That close the universe with crystal in, Are eloquent with voices that proclaim The unseen glories of immensity, In harmonies too perfect and too high For aught but beings of celestial mould, And speak to man in one eternal hymn.
Página 294 - Rhoecus, wandering in the wood, Saw an old oak just trembling to its fall, And, feeling pity of so fair a tree, He propped its gray trunk with admiring care, And with a thoughtless footstep loitered on. But, as he turned, he heard a voice behind That murmured "Rhoecus!" 'Twas as if the leaves, Stirred by a passing breath, had murmured it, And while he paused bewildered, yet again It murmured "Rhoecus!