The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volumes 16-17Leavitt, Trow, & Company, 1849 |
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... nature in walking up and down the room , twirling it , to show him how the young gentlemen in Edinburgh managed their canes . She had a natural taste for music ; and in her old age she would to the last sing snatches of old songs- " My ...
... nature in walking up and down the room , twirling it , to show him how the young gentlemen in Edinburgh managed their canes . She had a natural taste for music ; and in her old age she would to the last sing snatches of old songs- " My ...
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... Nature's transient pain , Congenial spirits part to meet again . ** * * Inspiring thought of rapture yet to be , The ... natural asperity relaxed in the manage- ment of her youngest son . Mary , the eldest sister , had already left her ...
... Nature's transient pain , Congenial spirits part to meet again . ** * * Inspiring thought of rapture yet to be , The ... natural asperity relaxed in the manage- ment of her youngest son . Mary , the eldest sister , had already left her ...
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... nature , et leurs copies sont toujours petites ; il n'en est pas ainsi de la nature quand elle a l'air de vouloir imiter les travaux des hommes , mais en leur offrant en effet des modèles . C'est alors qu'elle jet des ponts du sommet d ...
... nature , et leurs copies sont toujours petites ; il n'en est pas ainsi de la nature quand elle a l'air de vouloir imiter les travaux des hommes , mais en leur offrant en effet des modèles . C'est alors qu'elle jet des ponts du sommet d ...
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... Nature , or opened them only to gaze at her with the eyes of poets , painters , and mystics . They saw wondrous visions , and clothed Nature with splendid vestments , which they wove for her . All at once they bethought them- selves ...
... Nature , or opened them only to gaze at her with the eyes of poets , painters , and mystics . They saw wondrous visions , and clothed Nature with splendid vestments , which they wove for her . All at once they bethought them- selves ...
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... nature ab- horred a vacuum , so that a void was non- existent and impossible , and those who had no faith in the possibility of a vacuum , were as little likely to try to produce one , as the scientific mechanicians of our day are ...
... nature ab- horred a vacuum , so that a void was non- existent and impossible , and those who had no faith in the possibility of a vacuum , were as little likely to try to produce one , as the scientific mechanicians of our day are ...
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Page 480 - ... sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleased: now...
Page 176 - ULYSSES. IT little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. I cannot rest from travel; I will drink Life to the lees: all times I have enjoy'd Greatly, have suffer'd greatly , both with those That loved me, and alone; on shore, and when Thro...
Page 471 - And we fairies, that do run By the triple Hecate's team, From the presence of the sun, Following darkness like a dream...
Page 174 - My life is dreary, He cometh not,' she said; She said, 'I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead!
Page 23 - Can I forget the dismal night that gave My soul's best part for ever to the grave? How silent did his old companions tread, By midnight lamps, the mansions of the dead, Through breathing statues, then unheeded things, Through rows of warriors, and through walks of kings! What awe did the slow solemn knell inspire; The pealing organ, and the pausing choir; The duties by the lawn-robed prelate paid: And the last words that dust to dust conveyed!
Page 472 - Before I understood this place Appointed for my second race, Or taught my soul to fancy aught But a white, celestial thought; When yet I had not walked above A mile or two from my first love, And looking back, at that short space Could see a glimpse of his bright face...
Page 21 - Whilst the wine-cup shines in light ! And yet, amidst that joy and uproar, Let us think of them that sleep, Full many a fathom deep, By thy wild and stormy steep, Elsinore ! Brave hearts ! to Britain's pride, Once so faithful and so true, On the deck of Fame that died With the gallant good Riou : Soft sigh the winds of heaven o'er their grave ! While the billow mournful rolls, And the mermaid's song condoles, Singing Glory to the souls Of the Brave ! THE MARINERS OF ENGLAND.
Page 176 - And taste, to him the gushing of the wave Far far away did seem to mourn and rave On alien shores...
Page 480 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Page 177 - Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down: It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho...