Miscellanies Selected from the Public Journals, Volume 2Joseph T. Buckingham, 1824 - American literature |
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... considered bomb - proof ; and two cells , which we supposed to have been intended for magazines , are yet uninjured . But the place is now marked by silence and decay ; and , as if time lingered in his labors of destruction , many visit ...
... considered bomb - proof ; and two cells , which we supposed to have been intended for magazines , are yet uninjured . But the place is now marked by silence and decay ; and , as if time lingered in his labors of destruction , many visit ...
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... considered as very abtruse and difficult , become , after a year or two , exceedingly plain and easy . And in this way , also , they are doubtless enabled to make intelligible many subjects , which would otherwise be difficult elements ...
... considered as very abtruse and difficult , become , after a year or two , exceedingly plain and easy . And in this way , also , they are doubtless enabled to make intelligible many subjects , which would otherwise be difficult elements ...
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... considered merely as the foundation of one . The majority of the scentific works are in French ; and there is a large and superb collec- tion of maps and other military and scientific plates and drawings - the whole principally selected ...
... considered merely as the foundation of one . The majority of the scentific works are in French ; and there is a large and superb collec- tion of maps and other military and scientific plates and drawings - the whole principally selected ...
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... considered the National Bury- ing - Ground , as members of congress and other officers of the government are there interred . I have paid it two visits -- the first at evening twilight , in company with the obliging friend alluded to in ...
... considered the National Bury- ing - Ground , as members of congress and other officers of the government are there interred . I have paid it two visits -- the first at evening twilight , in company with the obliging friend alluded to in ...
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... considered peculiarly dangerous , and , as the breeze freshened , her matted hair , floated out like streamers upon the wind , her long boney arms were extended with imprecating gestures , and she appeared , as she poured out her male ...
... considered peculiarly dangerous , and , as the breeze freshened , her matted hair , floated out like streamers upon the wind , her long boney arms were extended with imprecating gestures , and she appeared , as she poured out her male ...
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Page 18 - tis, to cast one's eyes so low! The crows and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon...
Page 18 - Come on, sir; here's the place: stand still. How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low! The crows and choughs that wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles: halfway down Hangs one that gathers samphire, dreadful trade!
Page 250 - There with its waving blade of green, The sea-flag streams through the silent water, And the crimson leaf of the dulse is seen To blush, like a banner bathed in slaughter...
Page 249 - DEEP in the wave is a coral grove, Where the purple mullet and gold-fish rove, Where the sea-flower spreads its leaves of blue, That never are wet with falling dew, But in bright and changeful beauty shine, Far down in the green and glassy brine.
Page 63 - And what are we That hear the question of that voice sublime ? O, what are all the notes that ever rung From war's vain trumpet by thy thundering side ? Yea, what is all the riot man can make In his short life to thy unceasing roar ? And yet, bold babbler, what art thou to HIM Who drowned a world and heaped the waters far Above its loftiest mountains ? — a light wave That breaks and whispers of its Maker's might.
Page 250 - ... like corn on the upland lea: And life, in rare and beautiful forms, Is sporting amid those bowers of stone, And is safe when the wrathful spirit of storms Has made the top of the wave his own; And when the ship from his fury flies, Where the myriad voices of ocean roar, When the wind-god frowns in the murky skies, And demons are waiting the wreck on shore; Then far below in the peaceful sea, The purple mullet and gold-fish rove, Where the waters murmur tranquilly, Through the bending twigs of...
Page 43 - Robbins was a Senator in the Congress of the United States from the State of...
Page 61 - mid the cheerless hours of night, A mother wandered with her child. As through the drifted snows she pressed, The babe was sleeping on her breast. And colder still the winds did blow, And darker hours of night came on, And deeper grew the drifts of snow — Her limbs were chilled, her strength was gone — " O God," she cried, in accents wild, " If I must perish, save my child!
Page 102 - Tis granted, and no plainer truth appears, Our most important are our earliest years ; The mind, impressible and soft, with ease Imbibes and copies what she hears and sees, And through life's labyrinth holds fast the clue, That education gives her, false or true.
Page 59 - The fox and the panther, both beasts of the night, Retire to their dens on the gleaming of light, And they spring with a free and a sorrowless track, For they know that their mates are expecting them back. Each bird and each beast, it is blessed in degree ; All nature is cheerful, all happy, but me.