The Yale Literary Magazine, Volume 13Herrick & Noyes., 1848 |
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... true character and worth of the Puritans . They looked upon them with mingled won- der and contempt . They knew nothing of the lofty views and the sublime aspirations of these enthusiasts . They could not attend them in their frequent ...
... true character and worth of the Puritans . They looked upon them with mingled won- der and contempt . They knew nothing of the lofty views and the sublime aspirations of these enthusiasts . They could not attend them in their frequent ...
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... true Dorrite genus , a free and happy people have been in one short month converted into a raging democracy , a Protestant into an Infidel community , and now the ministers of Christ are prohibited from preach- ing to their flocks ...
... true Dorrite genus , a free and happy people have been in one short month converted into a raging democracy , a Protestant into an Infidel community , and now the ministers of Christ are prohibited from preach- ing to their flocks ...
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... true , Save the one fact of sin ; Then , nothing jarred our slumber , Or broke upon our dreams , Till the red round sun had risen up , And woke us with his beams . EARNWALL THOUGHTS ON THE SOCIAL COMPACT . If government be founded in a ...
... true , Save the one fact of sin ; Then , nothing jarred our slumber , Or broke upon our dreams , Till the red round sun had risen up , And woke us with his beams . EARNWALL THOUGHTS ON THE SOCIAL COMPACT . If government be founded in a ...
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... true God ; and thus preparing the minds of men to appreciate the novel and sublime truths of Christianity . To Rome was committed the great duty of removing all artificial obstructions , arising from national peculiarities and ...
... true God ; and thus preparing the minds of men to appreciate the novel and sublime truths of Christianity . To Rome was committed the great duty of removing all artificial obstructions , arising from national peculiarities and ...
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... true light . There was no mo- tive for representing it otherwise . But ( vol . 2 , p . 15 ) we have another reference to suicide . Bonaparte had , it seems , irritated Murat by some pettish remark , and the latter , in consequence ...
... true light . There was no mo- tive for representing it otherwise . But ( vol . 2 , p . 15 ) we have another reference to suicide . Bonaparte had , it seems , irritated Murat by some pettish remark , and the latter , in consequence ...
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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...