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... give him any weight with any class or party . Moreover , he is univer- sally admitted to be destitute both of the statesmanlike capacity , the statesmanlike knowledge , and the statesmanlike sobriety and solidity of mind and morals . He ...
... give him any weight with any class or party . Moreover , he is univer- sally admitted to be destitute both of the statesmanlike capacity , the statesmanlike knowledge , and the statesmanlike sobriety and solidity of mind and morals . He ...
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... give a faithful account of a most important era in our national history . The style , indeed , is rough and uncouth , and rather that of a ready speaker than of a practised writer , but it is almost always clear . The characters which ...
... give a faithful account of a most important era in our national history . The style , indeed , is rough and uncouth , and rather that of a ready speaker than of a practised writer , but it is almost always clear . The characters which ...
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... give rise to selfishness and the lust of power , could have cor- dially opposed the deed . " And so , Mr. Combe proves to his own satisfaction what we think has often been proved before , with at least equal force , and much greater ...
... give rise to selfishness and the lust of power , could have cor- dially opposed the deed . " And so , Mr. Combe proves to his own satisfaction what we think has often been proved before , with at least equal force , and much greater ...
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... give us of the nature of those glorious spiritual attributes which are the joy of earth and heaven ? What can it be that makes him fancy light from such a source - ah ! we see the illusion . The notion has arisen in the mind of the ...
... give us of the nature of those glorious spiritual attributes which are the joy of earth and heaven ? What can it be that makes him fancy light from such a source - ah ! we see the illusion . The notion has arisen in the mind of the ...
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... give meaning to the varieties of organic conformation . Here again , Mr. Combe is perpetually guilty of the confusion of setting more value on the new discovery , that the " organs " vary in size , than on the very old one , that the ...
... give meaning to the varieties of organic conformation . Here again , Mr. Combe is perpetually guilty of the confusion of setting more value on the new discovery , that the " organs " vary in size , than on the very old one , that the ...
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Page 398 - So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, that moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Page 405 - Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken, "Doubtless," said I, "what it utters is its only stock and store, Caught from some unhappy master, whom unmerciful disaster Followed fast and followed faster, till his songs one burden bore, — Till the dirges of his hope that melancholy burden bore Of "Never — nevermore.
Page 397 - To him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language ; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness ere he is aware.
Page 404 - I remember it was in the bleak December, And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly I wished the morrow; vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow— sorrow for the lost Lenore, For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore: Nameless here for evermore.
Page 397 - Yet a few days, and thee The all-beholding sun shall see no more In all his course; nor yet in the cold ground, Where thy pale form was laid, with many tears, Nor in the embrace of ocean, shall exist Thy image.
Page 405 - For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being Ever yet was blessed with seeing bird above his chamber door, Bird or beast upon the sculptured bust above his chamber door, With such name as "Nevermore.
Page 398 - Will share thy destiny. The gay will laugh When thou art gone, the solemn brood of care Plod on, and each one as before will chase His favorite phantom; yet all these shall leave Their mirth and their employments, and shall come And make their bed with thee.
Page 406 - Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!" I shrieked, upstarting: "Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore ! Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken ! Leave my loneliness unbroken! quit the bust above my door! 100 Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
Page 404 - Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and. curious volume of forgotten lore — While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. " "Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door — Only this and nothing more.
Page 388 - Brought in the olden time from France, and since, as an heirloom, Handed down from mother to child, through long generations. But a celestial brightness — a more ethereal beauty — Shone on her face and encircled her form, when, after confession, Homeward serenely she walked with God's benediction upon her, When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.