Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volume 12Leavitt, Throw and Company, 1847 |
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... nature in every female heart from pure kindness to man . These " mis- givings , " reasonable in themselves , were perfectly gratuitous in this case , for besides that there are some who when unadorned are adorned the most , if ...
... nature in every female heart from pure kindness to man . These " mis- givings , " reasonable in themselves , were perfectly gratuitous in this case , for besides that there are some who when unadorned are adorned the most , if ...
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... Nature , with her never - failing bounty , has in the chapel- yard supplied pillars of lime - trees , whose branches have learned to frame a dark some under the cool green shade of these aisles , before aisle and soothing it is to ...
... Nature , with her never - failing bounty , has in the chapel- yard supplied pillars of lime - trees , whose branches have learned to frame a dark some under the cool green shade of these aisles , before aisle and soothing it is to ...
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... Nature . But on the ice - clad peaks of the land discovered by Sir James Ross not the minutest trace of a cryptogamous plant is discernible , and the ocean which freezes to their base , is equally barren of aquatic vegetation . Some fea ...
... Nature . But on the ice - clad peaks of the land discovered by Sir James Ross not the minutest trace of a cryptogamous plant is discernible , and the ocean which freezes to their base , is equally barren of aquatic vegetation . Some fea ...
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... nature of an icy navigation ; but I am grieved to about the latitude of the Antarctic circle . It was be obliged ta add , that , at the present time , they do entirely covered with snow , and there was not the not seem to have received ...
... nature of an icy navigation ; but I am grieved to about the latitude of the Antarctic circle . It was be obliged ta add , that , at the present time , they do entirely covered with snow , and there was not the not seem to have received ...
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... nature , from not being fortified to withstand the shocks and pressure they must have been necessarily exposed to , had they ventured to penetrate any extensive body of ice . They would have equally failed had they tried it upon the ...
... nature , from not being fortified to withstand the shocks and pressure they must have been necessarily exposed to , had they ventured to penetrate any extensive body of ice . They would have equally failed had they tried it upon the ...
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Page 442 - Two Voices are there ; one is of the Sea, One of the Mountains ; each a mighty Voice : In both from age to age Thou didst rejoice, They were thy chosen Music, Liberty...
Page 447 - Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world : now could I drink hot blood, And do such bitter business as the day Would quake to look on.
Page 15 - See the wretch that long has tost On the thorny bed of pain, At length repair his vigour lost, And breathe and walk again ; The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening paradise.
Page 17 - Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips, and cranks,* and wanton* wiles, Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.
Page 207 - In the evening I went very unwillingly to a society in Aldersgate street, where one was reading Luther's preface to the Epistle to the Romans. About a quarter before nine, while he was describing the change which God works in the heart through faith in Christ, I felt my heart strangely warmed.
Page 251 - Eternal Hope ! when yonder spheres sublime Pealed their first notes to sound the march of Time, Thy joyous youth began — but not to fade. — When all the sister planets have decayed ; When wrapt in fire the realms of ether glow, And Heaven's last thunder shakes the world below ; Thou, undismayed shalt o'er the ruins smile, And light thy torch at Nature's funeral pile ! EOT) OF PABT SECOND.
Page 156 - Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright: at the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
Page 448 - Of these the false Achitophel was first; A name to all succeeding ages curst: For close designs and crooked councils fit; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit; Restless, unfixed in principles and place; In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace: A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay.
Page 435 - And when I die, be sure you let me know Great Homer died three thousand years ago. Why did I write ? what sin to me unknown Dipt me in ink, my parents...
Page 122 - Where be your gibes now ? your gambols ? your songs ? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table in a roar ? Not one now, to mock your own grinning?