The United States Magazine and Democratic Review, Volume 12Langtree and O'Sullivan, 1843 |
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... better ar- ranged and digested ; and , though not free from literary faults which we have no desire to extenuate , is generally in better taste and style , and the evident product of more deliberate pains and more careful revision . The ...
... better ar- ranged and digested ; and , though not free from literary faults which we have no desire to extenuate , is generally in better taste and style , and the evident product of more deliberate pains and more careful revision . The ...
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... better merited ; and when the colossus of clay shall crumble beneath the blows of the indignant nations , never , in the history of empires , will a greater ruin have taught a greater lesson . " Whe- ther M. Regnault will meet with the ...
... better merited ; and when the colossus of clay shall crumble beneath the blows of the indignant nations , never , in the history of empires , will a greater ruin have taught a greater lesson . " Whe- ther M. Regnault will meet with the ...
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... better understanding of the peculiar political relations of this country than other foreigners , especially Englishmen . After his return to England , he discovered the truth that there were heavier chains at home , and perhaps a higher ...
... better understanding of the peculiar political relations of this country than other foreigners , especially Englishmen . After his return to England , he discovered the truth that there were heavier chains at home , and perhaps a higher ...
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... better is it for us , at most humble dis- tance , to imitate those gracious and holy tears which fell over the pride and covetousness and ignorance of Je- rusalem . " Of the ignorance and demoralization , the necessary accompaniments of ...
... better is it for us , at most humble dis- tance , to imitate those gracious and holy tears which fell over the pride and covetousness and ignorance of Je- rusalem . " Of the ignorance and demoralization , the necessary accompaniments of ...
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... better is your sense of right Than kingcraft's triple mail . Than tyrant's law or bigot's ban More mighty is your simplest word ; The free heart of an honest man Than crosier or the sword . Go - let your bloated Church rehearse The ...
... better is your sense of right Than kingcraft's triple mail . Than tyrant's law or bigot's ban More mighty is your simplest word ; The free heart of an honest man Than crosier or the sword . Go - let your bloated Church rehearse The ...
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Page 161 - Now, when I think of thee, and what thou art, Verily, in the bottom of my heart, Of those unfilial fears I am ashamed. For dearly must we prize thee ; we who find In thee a bulwark for the cause of men ; And I by my affection was beguiled : What wonder if a Poet now...
Page 178 - Sweet echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell By slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet-embroidered vale Where the love-lorn nightingale Nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well: Canst thou not tell me of a gentle pair That likest thy Narcissus are?
Page 74 - States to issue attachments and inflict summary punishment for contempts of court shall not be construed to extend to any cases except the misbehavior of any person or persons in the presence of the said courts...
Page 178 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice ; To be imprisoned in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world...
Page 245 - For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) dwelleth no good thing : for to will is present with me; but how...
Page 161 - ON THE EXTINCTION OF THE VENETIAN REPUBLIC. ONCE did She hold the gorgeous east in fee; And was the safeguard of the west: the worth Of Venice did not fall below her birth, Venice, the eldest Child of Liberty.
Page 239 - Pile my ship with bars of silver — pack with coins of Spanish gold, From keel-piece up to deck-plank, the roomage of her hold, By the living God who made me ! — I would sooner in your bay Sink ship and crew and cargo than bear this child away...
Page 183 - If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
Page 270 - The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness :— Prepare ye the way of the Lord : make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill made low, the crooked straight and the rough places plain...
Page 314 - That the maxim of buying in the cheapest market, and selling in the dearest, which regulates every merchant in his individual dealings, is strictly applicable as the best rule for the trade of the whole nation.