The American Whig Review, Volume 2Wiley and Putnam, 1845 |
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... feeling , are national . Unlike its opponent , it has nothing to say in one part of the country , which it dares not , and does not , say in any other . It avoids , therefore , not only the sec- tional and sectarian elements spoken of ...
... feeling , are national . Unlike its opponent , it has nothing to say in one part of the country , which it dares not , and does not , say in any other . It avoids , therefore , not only the sec- tional and sectarian elements spoken of ...
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... feeling his way in front covered with snow , while ever and anon huge avalanches sweep by him , and the blind- ing ... feelings of supreme wonder . There is nothing like it in modern history , unless it be Suwarrow's passage of the ...
... feeling his way in front covered with snow , while ever and anon huge avalanches sweep by him , and the blind- ing ... feelings of supreme wonder . There is nothing like it in modern history , unless it be Suwarrow's passage of the ...
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... feeling . True to his recent oath he turned from his treacherous troops and fled , and nar- rowly escaped being taken prisoner by them . He was a conscientious soldier - kind in peace - sparing of his men in battle , unless sacrifice ...
... feeling . True to his recent oath he turned from his treacherous troops and fled , and nar- rowly escaped being taken prisoner by them . He was a conscientious soldier - kind in peace - sparing of his men in battle , unless sacrifice ...
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... feeling that poetry convicts them of folly , falsehood and meanness . Poetry then , is most emphatically , a " substantial world . " Who shall esti- mate what vast stores of happiness and improvement the domain of imagination has ...
... feeling that poetry convicts them of folly , falsehood and meanness . Poetry then , is most emphatically , a " substantial world . " Who shall esti- mate what vast stores of happiness and improvement the domain of imagination has ...
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... feeling for all orders and degrees of existence , who strives to attain that general truth which includes all individual varieties - he only is worthy the praise of universality . Now we do not pretend to intimate that we ever observe ...
... feeling for all orders and degrees of existence , who strives to attain that general truth which includes all individual varieties - he only is worthy the praise of universality . Now we do not pretend to intimate that we ever observe ...
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Page 36 - There lies the port: the vessel puffs her sail: There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners, Souls that have toil'd, and wrought, and thought with me — That ever with a frolic welcome took The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed Free hearts, free foreheads — you and I are old; Old age hath yet his...
Page 36 - In offices of tenderness, and pay Meet adoration to my household gods, When I am gone. He works his work, I mine. There lies the port; the vessel puffs her sail: There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners...
Page 323 - Who made you glorious as the gates of Heaven Beneath the keen full moon? Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows? Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet? God! — let the torrents, like a shout of nations, Answer! and let the ice-plains echo, God!
Page 36 - We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven ; that which we are, we are ; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Page 35 - I am a part of all that I have met ; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro' Gleams that untravell'd world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move.
Page 200 - In this situation of this assembly, groping as it were in the dark to find political truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how has it happened, sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of lights to illuminate our understandings?
Page 171 - But, look, the morn, in russet mantle clad, Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastern hill...
Page 35 - 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 323 - Of Nature's womb, that in quaternion run Perpetual circle, multiform, and mix And nourish all things ; let your ceaseless change Vary to our great Maker still new praise.
Page 378 - Come one, come all ! this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I.