American Quarterly Review, Volume 21Carey, Lea & Carey, 1837 |
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... party or the other . We have not given the above extracts for the purpose of pre- senting any analysis of the story - it is brief and inartificial , and intended merely as the vehicle to bear along the good advice and reflections with ...
... party or the other . We have not given the above extracts for the purpose of pre- senting any analysis of the story - it is brief and inartificial , and intended merely as the vehicle to bear along the good advice and reflections with ...
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... party for the world . ' " Can she not wait till your return ? ' " No - it is not reasonable to ask it ; it ' s late now - and - and- ' " Good night - I have wasted my time here , ' said Aikin , cutting short Finley's excuses , and ...
... party for the world . ' " Can she not wait till your return ? ' " No - it is not reasonable to ask it ; it ' s late now - and - and- ' " Good night - I have wasted my time here , ' said Aikin , cutting short Finley's excuses , and ...
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... parties - and we know the deadly hate felt for each other by the Saxon and Norman races . The latter was in the seat of power , and used the means which fortune had placed in its hands , nearly to the utter extinction of the English ...
... parties - and we know the deadly hate felt for each other by the Saxon and Norman races . The latter was in the seat of power , and used the means which fortune had placed in its hands , nearly to the utter extinction of the English ...
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... party . Fill- ing this position , contemplating these tragic objects , the great poet descended into the tomb . His life was employed in drawing his spectres and his blind kings - in depicting female sorrow and the punishment of ...
... party . Fill- ing this position , contemplating these tragic objects , the great poet descended into the tomb . His life was employed in drawing his spectres and his blind kings - in depicting female sorrow and the punishment of ...
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... parties . " In accordance with his principles respecting divorce , Milton solicited the hand of the young and accomplished daughter of a Dr. Davis , but she felt no partiality for the great genius who paid his addresses to her . The ...
... parties . " In accordance with his principles respecting divorce , Milton solicited the hand of the young and accomplished daughter of a Dr. Davis , but she felt no partiality for the great genius who paid his addresses to her . The ...
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Page 399 - AT midnight, in his guarded tent, The Turk was dreaming of the hour When Greece, her knee in suppliance bent, Should tremble at his power ; In dreams, through camp and court, he bore The trophies of a conqueror ; In dreams his song of triumph heard. Then wore his monarch's signet ring, Then pressed that monarch's throne — a King ; As wild his thoughts, and gay of wing, As Eden's garden bird.
Page 5 - Through the high wood echoing shrill; Sometime walking, not unseen, By hedge-row elms, on hillocks green, Right against the eastern gate Where the great Sun begins his state Robed in flames and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight...
Page 300 - To envelop and contain celestial spirits. Never was such a sudden scholar made ; Never came reformation in a flood, With such a heady...
Page 399 - An hour passed on — the Turk awoke — That bright dream was his last; He woke to hear his sentries shriek, " To arms! they come! the Greek ! the Greek...
Page 52 - Hell heard the unsufferable noise, Hell saw Heaven ruining from Heaven, and would have fled Affrighted; but strict Fate had cast too deep Her dark foundations, and too fast had bound.
Page 497 - Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head. Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossom'd furze unprofitably gay, There, in his noisy mansion, skill'd to rule, The village master taught his little school...
Page 399 - They fought, like brave men, long and well ; They piled that ground with Moslem slain; They conquered— but Bozzaris fell, Bleeding at every vein. His few surviving comrades saw His smile when rang their proud hurrah, And the red field was won; Then saw in death his eyelids close, Calmly, as to a night's repose, Like flowers at set of sun.
Page 144 - Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury ; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury : that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all that thou settest thine hand to in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
Page 496 - The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whisp'ring lovers made...
Page 401 - Such graves as his are pilgrim-shrines, Shrines to no code or creed confined, — The Delphian vales, the Palestines, The Meccas of the mind.