Cyclopaedia of American Literature: Embracing Personal and Critical Notices of Authors, and Selections from Their Writings, from the Earliest Period to the Present Day, with Portraits, Autographs, and Other Illustrations, Volume 2Charles Scribner, 1856 |
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... turned his mind occasionally to- ards politics , though never as an active politi- cian . His writings on this subject have been devoted to the support of those great principles which lie at the root of the republican system , and to ...
... turned his mind occasionally to- ards politics , though never as an active politi- cian . His writings on this subject have been devoted to the support of those great principles which lie at the root of the republican system , and to ...
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... turned his back on him in despair . The Caliph , after thanking him for his hospitality , departed with his companions , and when they had reached the street exclaimed- " Allah preserve me ! I will no longer fatigue myself in a vain ...
... turned his back on him in despair . The Caliph , after thanking him for his hospitality , departed with his companions , and when they had reached the street exclaimed- " Allah preserve me ! I will no longer fatigue myself in a vain ...
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... turned with redoubled vigour . I am sorry I did not exhibit Jacob's Dream . If I had dreamt of this suc- cess I certainly would have sent it there . " Leslie , in a letter to me , speaks of the picture of Uriel seated in the Sun. The ...
... turned with redoubled vigour . I am sorry I did not exhibit Jacob's Dream . If I had dreamt of this suc- cess I certainly would have sent it there . " Leslie , in a letter to me , speaks of the picture of Uriel seated in the Sun. The ...
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... turned off a song with great readiness . He also pos sessed some ability as a miniature and landscape painter . Of his ingenious capacity in the art of punning , a paragraph from a sketch of May Day in New York in his " Comic Annual ...
... turned off a song with great readiness . He also pos sessed some ability as a miniature and landscape painter . Of his ingenious capacity in the art of punning , a paragraph from a sketch of May Day in New York in his " Comic Annual ...
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... turned his atten- tion to state improvement , in the midst of which he was taken with a mortal illness , and died in his forty - eighth year , Sept. , 1839. Besides his speeches in the Senate , characterized by their ability and ...
... turned his atten- tion to state improvement , in the midst of which he was taken with a mortal illness , and died in his forty - eighth year , Sept. , 1839. Besides his speeches in the Senate , characterized by their ability and ...
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Page 350 - The hand that rounded Peter's dome And groined the aisles of Christian Rome Wrought in a sad sincerity; Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew; The conscious stone to beauty grew.
Page 33 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time, the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious union ; on states dissevered, discordant, belligerent ; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood...
Page 287 - In the government of this commonwealth, the Legislative department shall never exercise the executive and judicial powers, or either of them; the executive shall never exercise the Legislative and judicial powers, or either of them; the judicial shall never exercise the legislative and executive powers, or either of them ; to the end it may be a government of laws and not of men.
Page 186 - So shalt thou rest; and what if thou withdraw In silence from the living, and no friend Take note of thy departure? All that breathe Will share thy destiny. The gay will laugh When thou art gone, the solemn brood of care Plod on, and each one as before will chase His favorite phantom; yet all these shall leave Their mirth and their employments, and shall come And make their bed with thee.
Page 210 - And heard, with voice as trumpet loud, Bozzaris cheer his band : " 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 187 - And now, when comes the calm mild day, as still such days will come, To call the squirrel and the bee from out their winter home ; When the sound of dropping nuts is heard, though all the trees are still, And twinkle in the smoky light the waters of the rill, The south wind searches for the flowers whose fragrance late he bore, And sighs to find them in the wood and by the stream no more.
Page 207 - When Freedom, from her mountain height, Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there; She mingled with its gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure, celestial white With streakings of the morning light; Then, from his mansion in the sun, She called her eagle bearer down, And gave into his mighty hand, The symbol of her chosen land.
Page 187 - 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.
Page 72 - How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection presents them to view! The orchard, the meadow, the deep-tangled wild-wood, And every loved spot which my infancy knew!
Page 189 - MERRILY swinging on brier and weed, Near to the nest of his little dame, Over the mountain-side or mead, Robert of Lincoln is telling his name : Bob-o'-link, bob-o'-link, Spink, spank, spink ; Snug and safe is that nest of ours, Hidden among the summer flowers. Chee, chee, chee.