Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 20John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell Leavitt, Throw and Company, 1850 |
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... observation . We are far from holding out so vain a hope as that Edinburgh can furnish a complete immunity from vulgar annoyance , but we believe it will be felt quite as little here as in any of the numerous circles into which the ...
... observation . We are far from holding out so vain a hope as that Edinburgh can furnish a complete immunity from vulgar annoyance , but we believe it will be felt quite as little here as in any of the numerous circles into which the ...
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... observation , let us contemplate for a moment the condition of our University , and contrast it with the manner in which the idea be- longing to such institutions has elsewhere been realized . A University , when dis- charging its ...
... observation , let us contemplate for a moment the condition of our University , and contrast it with the manner in which the idea be- longing to such institutions has elsewhere been realized . A University , when dis- charging its ...
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... observation , and a hearty , honest desire to communicate in plain and homely language a matter which , if coolly investigated by those competent to do it justice , if undertaken with spirit and ade- quate resources , pursued with ...
... observation , and a hearty , honest desire to communicate in plain and homely language a matter which , if coolly investigated by those competent to do it justice , if undertaken with spirit and ade- quate resources , pursued with ...
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... observation of natural phenomena , everything which related to general and experimental physics , were for Laura the objects of inde- fatigable application . It would be difficult to paint the delight with which her friends and ...
... observation of natural phenomena , everything which related to general and experimental physics , were for Laura the objects of inde- fatigable application . It would be difficult to paint the delight with which her friends and ...
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... observation and admirable humor , might note and describe them . There are hosts of men , it is true , who think wisely and act foolishly ; but they either think wisely on some other matter than those in which they act foolishly , or ...
... observation and admirable humor , might note and describe them . There are hosts of men , it is true , who think wisely and act foolishly ; but they either think wisely on some other matter than those in which they act foolishly , or ...
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Page 191 - Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings leaned to virtue's side ; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watched and wept, he prayed and felt, for all ; And, as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.
Page 480 - And yet on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself, kills the image of God as it were in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Page 493 - O, for a muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention ! A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, And monarchs to behold the swelling scene...
Page 326 - The great secret of morals is love ; or a going out of our own nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in thought, action, or person, not our own. A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively ; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others ; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.
Page 20 - Who, doomed to go in company with pain, And fear, and bloodshed, miserable train ! Turns his necessity to glorious gain ; In face of these doth exercise a power Which is our human nature's highest dower ; Controls them and subdues, transmutes, bereaves Of their bad influence, and their good receives...
Page 328 - And with them the Being Beauteous, Who unto my youth was given, More than all things else to love me, And is now a saint in heaven. With a slow and noiseless footstep Comes that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine. And she sits and gazes at me With those deep and tender eyes, Like the stars, so still and saint-like, Looking downward from the skies.
Page 327 - In happy homes he saw the light Of household fires gleam warm and bright; Above, the spectral glaciers shone, And from his lips escaped a groan, Excelsior! "Try not the pass!" the old man said; "Dark lowers the tempest overhead, The roaring torrent is deep and wide!" And loud that clarion voice replied, Excelsior ! "O stay," the maiden said, "and rest Thy weary head upon this breast!
Page 328 - WHEN the hours of Day are numbered, And the voices of the Night Wake the better soul, that slumbered, To a holy, calm delight; Ere the evening lamps are lighted, And, like phantoms grim and tall, Shadows from the fitful fire-light Dance upon the parlor wall; Then the forms of the departed Enter at the open door; The beloved, the true-hearted, Come to visit me once more...
Page 23 - With tears of thoughtful gratitude. My thoughts are with the Dead ; with them I live in long-past years, Their virtues love, their faults condemn, Partake their hopes and fears, And from their lessons seek and find Instruction with an humble mind.
Page 184 - Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge, how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.