The New-York Review, and Atheneum Magazine, Volume 1William Cullen Bryant, Robert Charles Sands, Henry J. Anderson E. Bliss & E. White, 1825 |
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... give his work the more general denomination of a dramatic poem , it has all the incidents and characteristics of a tragedy . It is continued through the proper number of acts , is written with a sufficient regard to dramatic unities ...
... give his work the more general denomination of a dramatic poem , it has all the incidents and characteristics of a tragedy . It is continued through the proper number of acts , is written with a sufficient regard to dramatic unities ...
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... give us elements of stability and exemption from public commotions , both external and domestic , which no other coun- try has ever possessed . We are emphatically , We are emphatically , as we have often been denominated , " a thinking ...
... give us elements of stability and exemption from public commotions , both external and domestic , which no other coun- try has ever possessed . We are emphatically , We are emphatically , as we have often been denominated , " a thinking ...
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... give a scope to specula- tion , becomes the more apparent , when we reflect that the best of modern historical compositions , † the most perfect analysis of legal science , and the political portion of one of the ablest treatises on ...
... give a scope to specula- tion , becomes the more apparent , when we reflect that the best of modern historical compositions , † the most perfect analysis of legal science , and the political portion of one of the ablest treatises on ...
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... give them union and concert , unconscious of political rights , and accustomed to bow implicitly to the powers above them . In modern times , an army so employed would have to encounter men united by the spirit of freedom , animated by ...
... give them union and concert , unconscious of political rights , and accustomed to bow implicitly to the powers above them . In modern times , an army so employed would have to encounter men united by the spirit of freedom , animated by ...
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... give it habits of order and obedience , and conduct it to victory . If there is any foundation for the apprehension that standing armies may prove dangerous to our liberties , the plan of Mr. Calhoun gives the peace establishment the ...
... give it habits of order and obedience , and conduct it to victory . If there is any foundation for the apprehension that standing armies may prove dangerous to our liberties , the plan of Mr. Calhoun gives the peace establishment the ...
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Page 71 - Strike ! till the last armed foe expires ! Strike ! for your altars and your fires ! Strike ! for the green graves of your sires ; God, and your native land...
Page 479 - THE melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere. Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the autumn leaves lie dead ; They rustle to the eddying gust, and to the rabbit's tread ; The robin and the wren are flown, and from the shrubs the jay, And from the wood-top calls the crow through all the gloomy day. Where are the flowers, the fair young...
Page 480 - The wind-flower and the violet, they perished long ago, And the brier-rose and the orchis died amid the summer glow ; But on the hill the golden-rod, and the aster in the wood, And the yellow sunflower by the brook...
Page 70 - Suliote band, True as the steel of their tried blades, Heroes in heart and hand. There had the Persian's...
Page 71 - But to the hero, when his sword Has won the battle for the free, Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word, And in its hollow tones are heard The thanks of millions yet to be.
Page 213 - We wish, that this structure may proclaim the magnitude and importance of that event, to every class and every age. We wish, that infancy may learn the purpose of its erection from maternal lips, and that weary and withered age may behold it, and be solaced by the recollections which it suggests.
Page 71 - Come in consumption's ghastly form, The earthquake shock, the ocean storm ; Come when the heart beats high and warm With banquet song, and dance, and wine : And thou art terrible — the tear, The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier, And all we know, or dream, or fear Of agony are thine.
Page 120 - ... mighty whale, shall die. And realms shall be dissolved, and empires be no more, And they shall bow to death, who ruled from shore to shore ; And the great globe itself, so the holy writings tell, With the rolling firmament, where the starry armies dwell, Shall melt with fervent heat — they shall all pass away, Except the love of God, which shall live and last for aye.
Page 479 - Alas ! they all are in their graves, the gentle race of flowers Are lying in their lowly beds, with the fair and good of ours. The rain is falling where they lie, but the cold November rain Calls not from out the gloomy earth the lovely ones again.
Page 328 - MAGEE.— ON ATONEMENT AND SACRIFICE : Discourses and Dissertations on the Scriptural Doctrines of Atonement and Sacrifice, and on the Principal Arguments! advanced, and the Mode of Reasoning employed, by the Opponents of those Doctrines, as held by the Established Church.