The North American Review, Band 66Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge O. Everett, 1848 Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... mind like always bounding the view by the same horizon . Some men look abroad through books , and their minds expand as they look ; but there are many , and many constant readers too , to whom the knowledge of books is as a dead letter ...
... mind like always bounding the view by the same horizon . Some men look abroad through books , and their minds expand as they look ; but there are many , and many constant readers too , to whom the knowledge of books is as a dead letter ...
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... mind , and whatever turns thought inward purifies and strengthens and elevates the soul . Yet much is still wanting , and must ever be so , to a per- fect blending of interest and feeling . There is so much in history to preserve the ...
... mind , and whatever turns thought inward purifies and strengthens and elevates the soul . Yet much is still wanting , and must ever be so , to a per- fect blending of interest and feeling . There is so much in history to preserve the ...
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... mind is always freer and more efficient , for the nobleness of the aim leaves less play for those selfish passions which , resist we ever so firmly , will always come to mingle themselves more or less with even our best motives , and ...
... mind is always freer and more efficient , for the nobleness of the aim leaves less play for those selfish passions which , resist we ever so firmly , will always come to mingle themselves more or less with even our best motives , and ...
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... mind records its experience in written language , and the overflowing heart seeks relief there ; the past is brought back to instruct us and to charm ; truths to which the unas- sisted mind would never have soared are made clear and ...
... mind records its experience in written language , and the overflowing heart seeks relief there ; the past is brought back to instruct us and to charm ; truths to which the unas- sisted mind would never have soared are made clear and ...
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... mind and soundness of thought from a writer of an enervated age as to ask for vigor of body and the bloom of health from an inhab- itant of the Pontine marshes . And thus mind becomes the standard by which nations should be judged , and ...
... mind and soundness of thought from a writer of an enervated age as to ask for vigor of body and the bloom of health from an inhab- itant of the Pontine marshes . And thus mind becomes the standard by which nations should be judged , and ...
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Seite 400 - CHARICLES ; a Tale illustrative of Private Life among the Ancient Greeks : with Notes and Excursuses. New Edition. Post Svo.
Seite 259 - Complete Angler; or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation : being a Discourse of Rivers, Fishponds. Fish and Fishing, written by IZAAK WALTON ; and Instructions how to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a clear Stream, by CHARLES COTTON.
Seite 479 - THE DANDELION. DEAR common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold, First pledge of blithesome May, Which children pluck, and, full of pride, uphold, High-hearted buccaneers, o'erjoyed that they An Eldorado in the grass have found, Which not the rich earth's ample round May match in wealth, — tliou art more dear to me Than all the prouder summerblooms may be.
Seite 234 - Vacant their places were, or filled already by strangers. Suddenly, as if arrested by fear or a feeling of wonder, Still she stood, with her colorless lips apart, while a shudder Ran through her frame, and, forgotten, the flowerets dropped from her fingers, And from her eyes and cheeks the light and bloom of the morning. Then there escaped from her lips a cry of such terribls anguish, That the dying heard it, and started up from their pillows.
Seite 480 - THE CHANGELING I HAD a little daughter, And she was given to me To lead me gently backward To the Heavenly Father's knee, That I, by the force of nature, Might in some dim wise divine The depth of his infinite patience To this wayward soul of mine.
Seite 80 - Our ancestors are very good kind of folks ; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with.
Seite 481 - And smiles as she never smiled : When I wake in the morning, I see it Where she always used to lie, And I feel as weak as a violet Alone 'neath the awful sky. *>• As weak, yet as trustful also ; For the whole year long I see All the wonders of faithful Nature Still worked for the love of me; Winds wander, and dews drip earthward, Rain falls, suns rise and set, Earth whirls, and all but to prosper A poor little violet.
Seite 242 - And with these words of cheer they arose and continued their journey. Softly the evening came. The sun from the western horizon Like a magician extended his golden wand o'er the landscape ; Twinkling...
Seite 476 - New occasions teach new duties; Time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth...
Seite 242 - Shook from his little throat such floods of delirious music, That the whole air and the woods and the waves seemed silent to listen. Plaintive at first were the tones and sad; then soaring to madness Seemed they to follow or guide the revel of frenzied Bacchantes. Single notes were then heard, in sorrowful, low lamentation; Till, having gathered them all, he flung them abroad in derision, As when, after a storm, a gust of wind through the tree-tops Shakes down the rattling rain in a crystal shower...