Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volume 12Leavitt, Throw and Company, 1847 |
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... reason I have given , I must own that I was shy . My want of skill in the spoken language made me sure that I should bore and disappoint the kindness of our in- viters . Some misgivings about the toilet , too , might have flitted before ...
... reason I have given , I must own that I was shy . My want of skill in the spoken language made me sure that I should bore and disappoint the kindness of our in- viters . Some misgivings about the toilet , too , might have flitted before ...
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... reason in " which to conceal from themselves the true one- indolence . It is great waste of time to learn to read a language which has but one book worth reading , Camoens .'- A great mistake , by - the - bye . " A great mistake indeed ...
... reason in " which to conceal from themselves the true one- indolence . It is great waste of time to learn to read a language which has but one book worth reading , Camoens .'- A great mistake , by - the - bye . " A great mistake indeed ...
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... reason why we have bestowed a score of our pages on this un- pretending Journal . It is small in bulk and in manner slight - but we recognise the eye and the feeling of genius wherever Nature is to be depicted ; and the fresh , lively ...
... reason why we have bestowed a score of our pages on this un- pretending Journal . It is small in bulk and in manner slight - but we recognise the eye and the feeling of genius wherever Nature is to be depicted ; and the fresh , lively ...
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... Reason , justice , principle , were the leading ideas . Talleyrand , therefore , presented himself to the Congress , prepared to extort from it the admission of a broad principle , which he depended on his own ability to render fertile ...
... Reason , justice , principle , were the leading ideas . Talleyrand , therefore , presented himself to the Congress , prepared to extort from it the admission of a broad principle , which he depended on his own ability to render fertile ...
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... reason to ex- pect that the allied powers would again take the field for any other purpose than to re- place Louis XVIII . on the throne , and in the effective exercise of the government . wished to avail himself of the catastrophe of ...
... reason to ex- pect that the allied powers would again take the field for any other purpose than to re- place Louis XVIII . on the throne , and in the effective exercise of the government . wished to avail himself of the catastrophe of ...
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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?