Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volume 11John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele Leavitt, Throw and Company, 1847 |
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... expressions , like Agamemnon's face , must be veiled - which dilates almost to despair , and complains almost to blasphemy and which , when it looks to Heaven , it is " With that frantic air Which seems to ask if a God be there ...
... expressions , like Agamemnon's face , must be veiled - which dilates almost to despair , and complains almost to blasphemy and which , when it looks to Heaven , it is " With that frantic air Which seems to ask if a God be there ...
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... expression which dis- tinguish Goldsmith's " Deserted Village . " He has something of Pope's terseness , but little of his subtlety , finish , or brilliant ma- lice . And the motion of Cowper's mind and style in description differs as ...
... expression which dis- tinguish Goldsmith's " Deserted Village . " He has something of Pope's terseness , but little of his subtlety , finish , or brilliant ma- lice . And the motion of Cowper's mind and style in description differs as ...
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... expression of his likenesses , of which this is a striking proof . A small model of this statue , shortly sion forwarded him for his inspection . He was before my father's death , was by Joseph's permis- much pleased with it . harmony ...
... expression of his likenesses , of which this is a striking proof . A small model of this statue , shortly sion forwarded him for his inspection . He was before my father's death , was by Joseph's permis- much pleased with it . harmony ...
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... expression - making Intellect more intellectual , Hope more hopeful , and Reli- gion more religious . Even those critics and poets who have striven to it , in mere dog- matism and wilfulness of assertion , have , in spite of themselves ...
... expression - making Intellect more intellectual , Hope more hopeful , and Reli- gion more religious . Even those critics and poets who have striven to it , in mere dog- matism and wilfulness of assertion , have , in spite of themselves ...
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... expression by which they speak of that den of thieves on West Rock ; and they always use an equally guarded phrase when they mention those graves in the square , -graves , be it remembered , that enclose the ashes of men , who should ...
... expression by which they speak of that den of thieves on West Rock ; and they always use an equally guarded phrase when they mention those graves in the square , -graves , be it remembered , that enclose the ashes of men , who should ...
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Page 56 - It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log, at last, dry, bald, and sere: A lily of a day, Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall, and die that night; It was the plant, and flower of light. In small proportions, we just beauties see: And in short measures, life may perfect be.
Page 76 - Then to advise how war may, best upheld, Move by her two main nerves, iron and gold, In all her equipage...
Page 165 - 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...
Page 232 - ... simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles. And now I see with eye serene The very pulse of the machine; A Being breathing thoughtful breath, A Traveller between life and death; The reason firm, the temperate will, Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill; A perfect Woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of angelic light.
Page 360 - Thus with the year Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine...
Page 26 - I cannot tell : this same truth is a naked and open daylight, that doth not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights.
Page 41 - Take counsel, execute judgment; Make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday ; Hide the outcasts ; bewray not him that wandereth. Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab ; Be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler : For the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, The oppressors are consumed out of the land.
Page 518 - We — are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar? Such difference without discord as can make Those sweetest sounds in which all spirits shake, As trembling leaves in a continuous air.
Page 185 - As she went along in all this state and magnificence she spoke very graciously first to one, then to another, whether foreign ministers, or those who...
Page 26 - But it is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt such as we spake of before. But...