The Yale Literary Magazine, Volume 13Herrick & Noyes., 1848 |
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... nature , and the certainty that human nature must always interest human beings , it is quite clear that most Englishmen are much more interested in Ivanhoe than in Coriolanus , and most Scotch- men in Old Mortality than in the Winter's ...
... nature , and the certainty that human nature must always interest human beings , it is quite clear that most Englishmen are much more interested in Ivanhoe than in Coriolanus , and most Scotch- men in Old Mortality than in the Winter's ...
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... nature , " each individual member of the human family constituted in himself a free sovereign and independent state , and that society was composed as it were of unconnected particles , until the social compact , infusing into the mass ...
... nature , " each individual member of the human family constituted in himself a free sovereign and independent state , and that society was composed as it were of unconnected particles , until the social compact , infusing into the mass ...
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... nature . We say apparent , for there is no reason to suppose that in native vigor of the intellectual , more than of the corporeal , powers , nature was less partial to her favorites then , than at the present . But we mean that the ...
... nature . We say apparent , for there is no reason to suppose that in native vigor of the intellectual , more than of the corporeal , powers , nature was less partial to her favorites then , than at the present . But we mean that the ...
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... nature of a monarchy , even when limited , a tendency to the increase and concentration of power in one individual ; and Rome was , in time , brought to feel most bitterly the tyranny which such power invariably originates . It is a ...
... nature of a monarchy , even when limited , a tendency to the increase and concentration of power in one individual ; and Rome was , in time , brought to feel most bitterly the tyranny which such power invariably originates . It is a ...
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... nature and tendency of the artificial distinctions which invariably exist in society ; for the influx of luxury is always preceded by that of refinement , of which it is the abuse . Now , among the lower classes , refinement is confound ...
... nature and tendency of the artificial distinctions which invariably exist in society ; for the influx of luxury is always preceded by that of refinement , of which it is the abuse . Now , among the lower classes , refinement is confound ...
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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 349 - Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if thou hast understanding.
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 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 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 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...
Page 341 - Then the dukes of Edom shall be amazed; the mighty men of Moab, trembling shall take hold upon them; all the inhabitants of Canaan shall melt away.
Page 192 - ... graves is speechless too, it says nothing, it distinguishes nothing: as soon the dust of a wretch whom thou wouldest not, as of a prince whom thou couldest not look upon, will trouble thine eyes, if the wind blow it thither; and when a whirl-wind hath blown the dust of the churchyard into the church, and the man sweeps out the dust of the church into the churchyard, who will undertake to sift those dusts again, and to pronounce, This is the patrician, this is the noble flour, and this the yeomanly,...
Page 171 - House ; whose errand was only to give us knowledge of the affairs and state of those countries to which they were designed, and especially of the sciences, arts, manufactures, and inventions of all the world; and withal to bring unto us books, instruments, and patterns in every kind...
Page 379 - Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be transmitted to the -family of the deceased, and that they be spread upon the records of this society.