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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... passed on loving all , and hating not even with one who was to become his victim . his enemy . His great longevity may be attributed in part to his babits of temperance through life , temperance of mind , and temperance of body ; he was ...
... passed on loving all , and hating not even with one who was to become his victim . his enemy . His great longevity may be attributed in part to his babits of temperance through life , temperance of mind , and temperance of body ; he was ...
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... passed in soli- tude , amidst a busy population of half a million . came and restored to them their natural rights of citizens , but involved them at the same time in the most bitter domestic deso- lation . On the 8th of April , 1794 ...
... passed in soli- tude , amidst a busy population of half a million . came and restored to them their natural rights of citizens , but involved them at the same time in the most bitter domestic deso- lation . On the 8th of April , 1794 ...
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... passed away but with life itself . " " The beauteous scenery around her Berk- shire home made no vain appeal to the young dreamer's senses ; but afforded out- of - door delights equalling , if not surpassing , her pleasant studies ...
... passed away but with life itself . " " The beauteous scenery around her Berk- shire home made no vain appeal to the young dreamer's senses ; but afforded out- of - door delights equalling , if not surpassing , her pleasant studies ...
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... passed at Swansea , in Wales . The con- more frequent and of longer continuance . trast between the soft beauties of Berkshire , At Mr. Jerdan's house , Brompton , she was and the wild but picturesque scenery of a welcome guest ; and ...
... passed at Swansea , in Wales . The con- more frequent and of longer continuance . trast between the soft beauties of Berkshire , At Mr. Jerdan's house , Brompton , she was and the wild but picturesque scenery of a welcome guest ; and ...
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... passed - and all seemed well . Convalescence took the place of debility ; and , with the birth of her babe , all suffering was forgotten , and every joy received its completeness . But the decree had gone forth ; and suddenly , in the ...
... passed - and all seemed well . Convalescence took the place of debility ; and , with the birth of her babe , all suffering was forgotten , and every joy received its completeness . But the decree had gone forth ; and suddenly , in the ...
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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...