The Yale Literary Magazine, Volume 13Herrick & Noyes., 1848 |
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... feel that iron grasp dragging him down to perdition . If they caught faint glimpses of future bliss , he was in the very midst of Beulah . The dark river shrank to a rill . He heard the voices of the inhabitants of the City : he even ...
... feel that iron grasp dragging him down to perdition . If they caught faint glimpses of future bliss , he was in the very midst of Beulah . The dark river shrank to a rill . He heard the voices of the inhabitants of the City : he even ...
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... feel in every step of the Pilgrim's Progress . That was a vision rather than a dream . The relator casts a strange spell about us when we enter his magic circle . We forget all outward things while the wonderful revelation is made to ...
... feel in every step of the Pilgrim's Progress . That was a vision rather than a dream . The relator casts a strange spell about us when we enter his magic circle . We forget all outward things while the wonderful revelation is made to ...
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... feel its weight . In a barbarous age , however , the case is far different . At this period of a nation's history , though laws be few and simple , it requires the utmost exercise of arbitrary power to enforce a constrained obedience ...
... feel its weight . In a barbarous age , however , the case is far different . At this period of a nation's history , though laws be few and simple , it requires the utmost exercise of arbitrary power to enforce a constrained obedience ...
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... feel assured that a careful analysis of the motives which lead men to engage in them , could not fail to exhibit à craving desire to put down freedom of opinion as their efficient cause , as the mainspring of the whole movement ...
... feel assured that a careful analysis of the motives which lead men to engage in them , could not fail to exhibit à craving desire to put down freedom of opinion as their efficient cause , as the mainspring of the whole movement ...
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... feel most bitterly the tyranny which such power invariably originates . It is a merciful provision of Heaven , that the temper of a great peo- ple is not , like the inflammable gases , ready to explode at the first touch , and without ...
... feel most bitterly the tyranny which such power invariably originates . It is a merciful provision of Heaven , that the temper of a great peo- ple is not , like the inflammable gases , ready to explode at the first touch , and without ...
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Page 340 - Pharaoh's chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea: His chosen captains also are drowned in the Red Sea. The depths have covered them: They sank into the bottom as a stone.
Page 336 - THE measure is English heroic verse without rime, as that of Homer in Greek, and of Virgil in Latin, — rime being no necessary adjunct or true ornament of poem or good verse, in longer works especially, but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre...
Page 227 - Amidst the storm they sang, And the stars heard, and the sea ; And the sounding aisles of the dim woods rang To the anthem of the free.
Page 122 - With mazy error under pendent shades Ran nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flowers worthy of Paradise; which not nice art In beds and curious knots, but nature boon Poured forth profuse on hill and dale and plain...
Page 154 - So spake the cherub; and his grave rebuke, Severe in youthful beauty, added grace Invincible: abash'd the devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is, and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely; saw, and pined His loss: but chiefly to find here observed His lustre visibly impair'd; yet seem'd Undaunted. If I must contend...
Page 349 - Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it? Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; When the morning stars sang together, and all the Sons of God shouted for joy?
Page 126 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...
Page 277 - Motionless torrents! silent cataracts! Who made you glorious as the Gates of Heaven Beneath the keen full moon? Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows? Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet? GOD! let the torrents, like a shout of nations, Answer! and let the ice-plains echo, GOD!
Page 270 - We do not, indeed, expect all men to be philosophers, or statesmen ; but we confidently trust, and our expectation of the duration of our system of government rests on that trust, that by the diffusion of general knowledge, and good and virtuous sentiments, the political fabric may be secure, as well against open violence and overthrow, as against the slow but sure undermining of licentiousness.
Page 338 - Awake, /Eolian lyre, awake, And give to rapture all thy trembling strings. From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take ; The laughing flowers, that round them blow, Drink life and fragrance as they flow. Now the rich stream of music winds along, Deep, majestic, smooth, and strong, Through verdant vales, and Ceres...