Southern Literary Messenger, Volume 2T.W. White, 1835 |
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... seems to have shown that the advantages of acquaintance with the customs and languages of the Eastern nations , are more than counterbalanced by the loss of honorable feelings , and the disregard of moral restraints which frequently ...
... seems to have shown that the advantages of acquaintance with the customs and languages of the Eastern nations , are more than counterbalanced by the loss of honorable feelings , and the disregard of moral restraints which frequently ...
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... seems to me My very breathing is not so free , where the breeze in its freedom blows , And the vines untrammel'd but seem to be Disporting to tell of their liberty . As There , there I'd be - Oh ! my spirit pines For the rivers , the ...
... seems to me My very breathing is not so free , where the breeze in its freedom blows , And the vines untrammel'd but seem to be Disporting to tell of their liberty . As There , there I'd be - Oh ! my spirit pines For the rivers , the ...
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... seems made but for you and me . " * ' Twas a lovely night - the moonlit sea * Was smooth and fair as beauty's brow ; And down in the coral caves below , Where white pearls lie , and seaflowers grow , The mermaid was dreaming quietly ...
... seems made but for you and me . " * ' Twas a lovely night - the moonlit sea * Was smooth and fair as beauty's brow ; And down in the coral caves below , Where white pearls lie , and seaflowers grow , The mermaid was dreaming quietly ...
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... seems to bear upon it the stamp of a myriad applied . I mean its extreme porousness , considered in- of years . His ... seem to experience little inconvenience . It appears to me a miracle of miracles that our enormous bulk is not ...
... seems to bear upon it the stamp of a myriad applied . I mean its extreme porousness , considered in- of years . His ... seem to experience little inconvenience . It appears to me a miracle of miracles that our enormous bulk is not ...
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... seems , she had already set to work amid the interruptions of the stage . " Article III is headed " a Voyage of Discovery to Africa and Arabia , performed in his Majesty's Ships Leven and Barracouta , from 1822 to 1826 , under the ...
... seems , she had already set to work amid the interruptions of the stage . " Article III is headed " a Voyage of Discovery to Africa and Arabia , performed in his Majesty's Ships Leven and Barracouta , from 1822 to 1826 , under the ...
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Page 333 - WHEN Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night. And set the stars of glory there. She mingled with its gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure celestial white With streakings of the morning light; Then from his mansion in the sun She called her eagle bearer down, And gave into his mighty hand The symbol of her chosen land.
Page 179 - at the Mount of St Mary's, in the stony stage where I now stand, I have brought you some fine biscuits, baked in the oven of charity, carefully conserved for the chickens of the church, the sparrows of the spirit, and the sweet swallows of salvation.
Page 256 - And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward : for all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
Page 336 - Green be the turf above thee, Friend of my better days ! None knew thee but to love thee, Nor named thee but to praise. Tears fell when thou wert dying, From eyes unused to weep, And long, where thou art lying, Will tears the cold turf steep. When hearts whose truth was proven, Like thine are laid in earth, There should a wreath be woven To tell the world their worth.
Page 335 - Thy sunken eye's unearthly light To him is welcome as the .sight Of sky and stars to prisoned men : Thy grasp is welcome as the hand Of brother in a foreign land ; Thy summons welcome as the cry That told the Indian isles were nigh To the world-seeking Genoese, When the land-wind, from woods of palm, And orange groves, and fields of balm, Blew o'er the Haytian seas.
Page 285 - Jesus Christ,' so that it should read, 'a departure from the plan of Jesus Christ, the holy author of our religion ;' the insertion was rejected by a great majority, in proof that they meant to comprehend, within the mantle of its protection, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and Mahometan, the Hindoo, and Infidel of every denomination.
Page 238 - TO HELEN. Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore, That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary, way-worn wanderer bore To his own native shore. On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece And the grandeur that was Rome.
Page 330 - Studs of gold on a ground of green; And the quivering lance which he brandished bright, Was the sting of a wasp he had slain in fight.
Page 124 - Naples ! thou Heart of men which ever pantest Naked, beneath the lidless eye of heaven ! Elysian City which to calm enchantest The mutinous air and sea : they round thee, even As sleep round Love, are driven...
Page 336 - She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love : A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye! Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky.