American Quarterly Review, Volume 21Robert Walsh Carey, Lea & Carey, 1837 |
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... believe , under government patronage . The establishment of agricul- tural societies and journals in the different states , we trust , is the harbinger of greater advancement in science and the arts throughout the country . It is ...
... believe , under government patronage . The establishment of agricul- tural societies and journals in the different states , we trust , is the harbinger of greater advancement in science and the arts throughout the country . It is ...
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... believe does not now hold good . The increasing emigration to the west , and the too gene- ral neglect there of agriculture , causes an excess of population over the products of the earth , while the market at the east is making greater ...
... believe does not now hold good . The increasing emigration to the west , and the too gene- ral neglect there of agriculture , causes an excess of population over the products of the earth , while the market at the east is making greater ...
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... believe that I am as thoroughly acquainted with English as a man can be with a language foreign to his own . I have read most conscientiously all that it was my duty to read on the subject discussed in these two volumes . I have rarely ...
... believe that I am as thoroughly acquainted with English as a man can be with a language foreign to his own . I have read most conscientiously all that it was my duty to read on the subject discussed in these two volumes . I have rarely ...
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... believe that he is the first critic of any pretensions who ever did so - as he is assuredly the first who ever charged him with a want of variety in the delineation of female character . Our readers might scarcely credit the assertion ...
... believe that he is the first critic of any pretensions who ever did so - as he is assuredly the first who ever charged him with a want of variety in the delineation of female character . Our readers might scarcely credit the assertion ...
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... believe that it would make it a crime for a man to be blind ? But let us thank this abominable hate , we owe to it some exquisite lines . Milton first replies that he lost his sight in the defence of liberty , then adds these passages ...
... believe that it would make it a crime for a man to be blind ? But let us thank this abominable hate , we owe to it some exquisite lines . Milton first replies that he lost his sight in the defence of liberty , then adds these passages ...
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Page 385 - 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 - Where the great Sun begins his state Robed in flames and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight; While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrow'd land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.
Page 318 - To envelop and contain celestial spirits. Never was such a sudden scholar made ; Never came reformation in a flood, With such a heady...
Page 385 - 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 485 - 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 482 - Where many a time he triumphed is forgot. Near yonder thorn, that lifts its head on high, Where once the sign-post caught the passing eye...
Page 431 - But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it ; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it : and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.
Page 385 - 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 471 - Your last letter, I repeat it, was too short ; you should have given me your opinion of the design of the heroi-comical poem which I sent you. You remember I intended to introduce the hero of the poem as lying in a paltry alehouse. You may take the following specimen of the manner, which I flatter myself is quite original. The room in which he lies may be described somewhat...
Page 439 - you are too severe. He is only a bur. Tom Davies flung him at Johnson in sport, and he has the faculty of sticking.