The North American Review, Band 77Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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Poems by Alexander Smith , a volume recently published in London , and by this
time reprinted in Boston , deserve attention . They have obtained in England a
good deal more notice than is usually accorded there to first volumes of verse ;
nor ...
Poems by Alexander Smith , a volume recently published in London , and by this
time reprinted in Boston , deserve attention . They have obtained in England a
good deal more notice than is usually accorded there to first volumes of verse ;
nor ...
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The antecedents of the Life - Drama , the one long poem which occupies almost
the whole of his volume , are to be found in the Princess , in parts of Mrs .
Browning , in the love of Keats , and the habit of Shakspeare . There is no Pope ,
or ...
The antecedents of the Life - Drama , the one long poem which occupies almost
the whole of his volume , are to be found in the Princess , in parts of Mrs .
Browning , in the love of Keats , and the habit of Shakspeare . There is no Pope ,
or ...
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Empedocles on Etna and other Poems , with its earlier companion volume , The
Strayed Reveller and other Poems , are , it would seem , the productions ( as is ,
or was , the English phrase ) of a scholar and a gentleman ; a man who has ...
Empedocles on Etna and other Poems , with its earlier companion volume , The
Strayed Reveller and other Poems , are , it would seem , the productions ( as is ,
or was , the English phrase ) of a scholar and a gentleman ; a man who has ...
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Meantime , it is one promising point in our author of the initial , that his second is
certainly on the whole an improvement upon his first volume . There is less
obvious study of effect ; upon the whole , a plainer and simpler and less factitious
...
Meantime , it is one promising point in our author of the initial , that his second is
certainly on the whole an improvement upon his first volume . There is less
obvious study of effect ; upon the whole , a plainer and simpler and less factitious
...
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In the earlier volume , one of the most generally admired pieces was “ The
Forsaken Merman . ” Come , dear children , let us away Down , and away below ,
says the Merman , standing upon the sea - shore , whither he and his children
came ...
In the earlier volume , one of the most generally admired pieces was “ The
Forsaken Merman . ” Come , dear children , let us away Down , and away below ,
says the Merman , standing upon the sea - shore , whither he and his children
came ...
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Seite 413 - To you, in David's town, this day Is born of David's line, The Saviour, who is Christ the Lord ; And this shall be the sign.
Seite 282 - ... riches which your wounds have preserved ? Is this the case ? or is it rather a country that tramples upon your rights, disdains your cries, and insults your distresses ? Have you not more than once suggested your wishes, and made known your wants, to congress — wants and wishes which gratitude and policy should have anticipated rather than evaded ? And have you not lately, in the meek language of entreating...
Seite 340 - I entreat you to consider, that when you choose magistrates, you take them from among yourselves, men subject to like passions as you are. Therefore when you see infirmities in us, you should reflect upon your own, and that would make you bear the more with us, and not be severe censurers of the failings of your magistrates, when you have continual experience of the like infirmities in yourselves and others.
Seite 535 - Principles of Geology; or, the Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants considered as illustrative of Geology. Ninth Edition. Woodcuts. 8vo. 18s. - Manual of Elementary Geology ; or, the Ancient Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants illustrated by its Geological Monuments.
Seite 23 - With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone ; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish 'twere done. Not till the hours of light return, All we have built do we discern.
Seite 370 - No man's life shall be taken away; no man's honor or good name shall be stained ; no man's person shall be arrested, restrained, banished, dismembered, nor any...
Seite 422 - Fog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among the tiers of shipping and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city.
Seite 25 - The bridegroom sea Is toying with the shore, his wedded bride, And in the fulness of his marriage joy, He decorates her tawny front with shells — Retires a space to see how fair she looks, Then proud, runs up to kiss her.
Seite 282 - Tell them that though you were the first, and would wish to be the last, to encounter danger, though despair itself can never drive you into dishonor, it may drive you from the field; that the wound, often irritated and never healed, may at length become incurable; and that the slightest mark of indignity from Congress...
Seite 198 - What then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretence or in truth, Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.