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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... written in such broad characters on every page of history , that he who runs may read it there . The past , without it , is unintelligible ; the present , so cheerless and dreary , that earnest hearts would sink under the burden , and ...
... written in such broad characters on every page of history , that he who runs may read it there . The past , without it , is unintelligible ; the present , so cheerless and dreary , that earnest hearts would sink under the burden , and ...
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... written description , like a landscape through a haze ; something which , try they never so hard , eludes their grasp , and they have no faith in it . But let them once come where they can lay their hand upon it and see it with their ...
... written description , like a landscape through a haze ; something which , try they never so hard , eludes their grasp , and they have no faith in it . But let them once come where they can lay their hand upon it and see it with their ...
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... 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 definite to the intellectual eye ...
... 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 definite to the intellectual eye ...
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... written reason ; but their minds are enlarged , and a higher impulse is given to them , by the writings of their own great jurists . Many , when the day of trial comes , may * It was probably this Italian view of the subject which ...
... written reason ; but their minds are enlarged , and a higher impulse is given to them , by the writings of their own great jurists . Many , when the day of trial comes , may * It was probably this Italian view of the subject which ...
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... written discourse of con- siderable length . The liberal and philanthropic spirit dis- played in all his subsequent writings shows that this childish enthusiasm left a permanent impression on his character . The elder Sismondi was a man ...
... written discourse of con- siderable length . The liberal and philanthropic spirit dis- played in all his subsequent writings shows that this childish enthusiasm left a permanent impression on his character . The elder Sismondi was a man ...
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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...