The Yale Literary Magazine, Volume 13Herrick & Noyes., 1848 |
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... turns upon itself ! Mysterious dread ! What secret power is this within the soul , That curbs it by the narrow bounds of right ? What then is right ? what wrong ? what changeless law Hath everlasting Justice e'er decreed , By which I am ...
... turns upon itself ! Mysterious dread ! What secret power is this within the soul , That curbs it by the narrow bounds of right ? What then is right ? what wrong ? what changeless law Hath everlasting Justice e'er decreed , By which I am ...
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... turn ? Cæsar hath fought for Rome ; Why not now fight against her ? While I led Her legions forth against barbarian hordes , And taught her eagles how to soar and make Their eyries on the everlasting Alps , Where now they're fixed ...
... turn ? Cæsar hath fought for Rome ; Why not now fight against her ? While I led Her legions forth against barbarian hordes , And taught her eagles how to soar and make Their eyries on the everlasting Alps , Where now they're fixed ...
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... turn from their sacred office to secular employments . If the failure of health drives them from the pulpit , we might naturally expect them to adopt some profession as nearly as may be allied to their holy vocation . When a sentinel is ...
... turn from their sacred office to secular employments . If the failure of health drives them from the pulpit , we might naturally expect them to adopt some profession as nearly as may be allied to their holy vocation . When a sentinel is ...
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... turn aside to hold a little familiar talk with you . The " blues " are not peculiar to " gentlemen who have recently entered college . " We have enjoyed that delightful ailing , with all the " ecstacy of woe , " more than once since we ...
... turn aside to hold a little familiar talk with you . The " blues " are not peculiar to " gentlemen who have recently entered college . " We have enjoyed that delightful ailing , with all the " ecstacy of woe , " more than once since we ...
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... turn my head , ( and he began again to twitch his head wildly and convulsively over his shoulder , ) when , O horrors ! what a counte- nance returned my gaze ! It were utterly vain to attempt a description ; but all the terrors of all ...
... turn my head , ( and he began again to twitch his head wildly and convulsively over his shoulder , ) when , O horrors ! what a counte- nance returned my gaze ! It were utterly vain to attempt a description ; but all the terrors of all ...
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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...