Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volume 44John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell Leavitt, Throw and Company, 1858 |
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... course of at- tentive and self - imposed study . Thorough- ly conversant with the dramatic produc- tions of the ancients , and the critical rules connected with them , he made them his models and his tests of excellence . But he was ...
... course of at- tentive and self - imposed study . Thorough- ly conversant with the dramatic produc- tions of the ancients , and the critical rules connected with them , he made them his models and his tests of excellence . But he was ...
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... course strengthen it ; it boundaries , within which you are always is to the poet what an eye for colors , and sensible of being confined . This is pecu- a power to combine them , is to the painter liarly true of his imagination ; there ...
... course strengthen it ; it boundaries , within which you are always is to the poet what an eye for colors , and sensible of being confined . This is pecu- a power to combine them , is to the painter liarly true of his imagination ; there ...
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John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell. But this true course is not embraced by many : but rarely does the whole burst into a With whom who sails rides on the surge of finish his best pains could afford , but he From Fraser's ...
John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell. But this true course is not embraced by many : but rarely does the whole burst into a With whom who sails rides on the surge of finish his best pains could afford , but he From Fraser's ...
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... course the greater number of these sci- ences are entirely modern , or the off- spring of the last three hundred years . The author treats of them in succession , and instead of bewildering us by attempt- ing to assign to each author ...
... course the greater number of these sci- ences are entirely modern , or the off- spring of the last three hundred years . The author treats of them in succession , and instead of bewildering us by attempt- ing to assign to each author ...
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... course of nature . Thus things were towards the middle of the sixteenth century . TWO HUNDRED YEARS SINCE , Newton was a boy at school . The mere ground plan of the solar system was pretty well understood , but gravitation was unthought ...
... course of nature . Thus things were towards the middle of the sixteenth century . TWO HUNDRED YEARS SINCE , Newton was a boy at school . The mere ground plan of the solar system was pretty well understood , but gravitation was unthought ...
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Page 410 - Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore, — "Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, "art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore: Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!
Page 410 - December, And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly I wished the morrow; vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow— sorrow for the lost Lenore, For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore: Nameless here for evermore.
Page 411 - thing of evil - prophet still, if bird or devil! By that Heaven that bends above us - by that God we both adore Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore.
Page 410 - Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer Swung by seraphim whose foot-falls tinkled on the tufted floor. "Wretch," I cried, "thy God hath lent thee — by these angels he hath sent thee Respite — respite and nepenthe from thy memories of Lenore! Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore!
Page 410 - But the Raven still beguiling all my sad soul into smiling, Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird and bust and door; Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore, What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt and ominous bird of yore Meant in croaking "Nevermore.
Page 8 - Triumph, my Britain, thou hast one to show, To whom all Scenes of Europe homage owe. He was not of an age, but for all time...
Page 239 - Whose powers shed round him in the common strife, Or mild concerns of ordinary life, A constant influence, a peculiar grace ; But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for human kind, Is happy as a Lover ; and attired With sudden brightness, like a Man inspired...
Page 123 - The place of the Scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter ; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth : In his humiliation his judgment was taken away : and who shall declare his generation ? for his life is taken from the earth.
Page 8 - Sweet Swan of Avon! what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames That so did take Eliza and our James!
Page 470 - ... a terror to evil-doers, and a praise to them that do well.