The Eagle: A Magazine, Volumes 1-2W. Metcalfe, 1859 |
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... young cosmopolites , and that they must seek to interest the reader by being first interested themselves . We would also re- mind them of two things ; first , that the object of reading poetry is not to write it ; and secondly , that ...
... young cosmopolites , and that they must seek to interest the reader by being first interested themselves . We would also re- mind them of two things ; first , that the object of reading poetry is not to write it ; and secondly , that ...
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... young men judge more correctly than those whom on this point they are supposed to imitate . And after all the hypothesis does not explain the general approbation of virtuous actions , or the performance of those actions . What possible ...
... young men judge more correctly than those whom on this point they are supposed to imitate . And after all the hypothesis does not explain the general approbation of virtuous actions , or the performance of those actions . What possible ...
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... young athletes of Alcester . An old sycamore was waving over his head , and the October number of the Newcomes had fallen from his hand as he indulged in one of the dreamy reveries to which he was somewhat addicted . Behind rose the ...
... young athletes of Alcester . An old sycamore was waving over his head , and the October number of the Newcomes had fallen from his hand as he indulged in one of the dreamy reveries to which he was somewhat addicted . Behind rose the ...
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... young men into whose characters we have already obtained some insight from the above conversation . Raleigh , you see , is tall , with a good though slight figure , somewhat spoiled by a general air of lassitude in his walk and carriage ...
... young men into whose characters we have already obtained some insight from the above conversation . Raleigh , you see , is tall , with a good though slight figure , somewhat spoiled by a general air of lassitude in his walk and carriage ...
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... keep up at that killing pace which he has heard of . Raleigh looks on him pleasantly from his blue eyes , and is all but worshipped by his young pupil . There are Waters 26 Sketches of Alcester by an old Alcestrian .
... keep up at that killing pace which he has heard of . Raleigh looks on him pleasantly from his blue eyes , and is all but worshipped by his young pupil . There are Waters 26 Sketches of Alcester by an old Alcestrian .
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Page 140 - I pray you, speak not ; he grows worse and worse; Question enrages him : at once, good night : — Stand not upon the order of your going, But go at once.
Page 7 - The roar of waters!— from the headlong height Velino cleaves the wave-worn precipice; The fall of waters ! rapid as the light The flashing mass foams shaking the abyss; The hell of waters ! where they howl and hiss, And boil in endless torture; while the sweat Of their great agony, wrung out from this Their Phlegethon, curls round the rocks of jet That gird the gulf around, in pitiless horror set...
Page 57 - She was a form of life and light, That, seen, became a part of sight...
Page 120 - The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night And his affections dark as Erebus: Let no such man be trusted.
Page 309 - Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that the Lord's house should be built.
Page 7 - And mounts in spray the skies, and thence again Returns in an unceasing shower, which round, With its unemptied cloud of gentle rain, Is an eternal April to the ground, Making it all one emerald.
Page 234 - Change good to their own nature. I gave all He has; and in return. he chains me here Years, ages, night and day...
Page 196 - The youth who daily further from the east Must travel, still is nature's priest, And by the vision splendid Is on his way attended; At length the man perceives it die away, And fade into the light of common day.
Page 236 - Remit the anguish of that lighted stare; Close those wan lips; let that thornwounded brow Stream not with blood; it mingles with thy tears ! Fix, fix those tortured orbs in peace and death, So thy sick throes shake not that crucifix, So those pale fingers play not with thy gore.
Page 307 - And the elders of the Jews builded, and they prospered through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. And they builded, and finished it, according to the commandment of the God of Israel, and according to the commandment of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia.