The New Monthly Magazine, and Literary Journal ..., Volume 3Allen and Ticknor, 1822 |
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... mind , can give , even to common - place , a charm far beyond the reach of singularity and pretension . I shall therefore briefly relate it . In the memorable year 1814 , when the vast theatre of Napoleon's pride and power was thrown ...
... mind , can give , even to common - place , a charm far beyond the reach of singularity and pretension . I shall therefore briefly relate it . In the memorable year 1814 , when the vast theatre of Napoleon's pride and power was thrown ...
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... mind is resolved , " said Combabus , " and thou , my friend , shalt give me letters of acquaintance to some friend of thine at Antioch . " " I have but one friend there , " said Apelles ; it is Erasistratus , the nephew of my old friend ...
... mind is resolved , " said Combabus , " and thou , my friend , shalt give me letters of acquaintance to some friend of thine at Antioch . " " I have but one friend there , " said Apelles ; it is Erasistratus , the nephew of my old friend ...
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... mind are expressed in that brilliant period ! -what a war of wit is lighted up amongst them ! -how they smite each other with their airy brands !. But hear the wild laugh from the young group beneath them ; these are the known patrons ...
... mind are expressed in that brilliant period ! -what a war of wit is lighted up amongst them ! -how they smite each other with their airy brands !. But hear the wild laugh from the young group beneath them ; these are the known patrons ...
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... mind more of the creative faculty ; and manual aptitude is every where , and in every occupation , evinced ; but either the course of instruction is faulty , or true ge- nius is repressed , or the nationally - charged arrogance of self ...
... mind more of the creative faculty ; and manual aptitude is every where , and in every occupation , evinced ; but either the course of instruction is faulty , or true ge- nius is repressed , or the nationally - charged arrogance of self ...
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... mind we meet , Though fairest forms we see , To live with them is far less sweet , Than to remember thee , Mary ! * R. A CHAPTER ON " TIME . " BEING AN ATTEMPT TO THROW NEW LIGHT ON AN OLD SUBJECT . " We know what we are , " said poor ...
... mind we meet , Though fairest forms we see , To live with them is far less sweet , Than to remember thee , Mary ! * R. A CHAPTER ON " TIME . " BEING AN ATTEMPT TO THROW NEW LIGHT ON AN OLD SUBJECT . " We know what we are , " said poor ...
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Page 417 - The moon shines bright : — In such a night as this, When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees, And they did make no noise...
Page 551 - I care not, fortune, what you me deny ; You cannot rob me of free nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face, You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve : Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, And I their toys to the great children leave : Of fancy, reason, virtue, nought can me bereave.
Page 73 - I am not for criticising hedgerows and black cattle. I go out of town in order to forget the town and all that is in it. There are those who for this purpose go to wateringplaces, and carry the metropolis with them.
Page 240 - But to return to our own institute; besides these constant exercises at home, there is another opportunity of gaining experience to be won from pleasure itself abroad; in those vernal seasons of the year when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature, not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.
Page 240 - Purification in the old law did save, And such, as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in Heaven without restraint, Came vested all in white, pure as her mind. Her face was...
Page 26 - This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction ; once I loved Torn ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring . Sounds sweet as if a Sister's voice reproved, That I with stern delights should e'er have been so moved. It is the hush of night...
Page 239 - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold ; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones...
Page 238 - CYRIACK, this three years' day these eyes, though clear, To outward view, of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot ; Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year, Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope, but still bear up and steer Right onward.
Page 531 - While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrow'd land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the landscape round it measures...
Page 239 - 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.