American Quarterly Review, Volume 21Carey, Lea & Carey, 1837 |
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... play the chief part in the little story . " But , before they arrived at this stage in the journey of life , both good and evil had chanced to them . Their first - born , Ellen , ran into an open cistern , the surface of which was just ...
... play the chief part in the little story . " But , before they arrived at this stage in the journey of life , both good and evil had chanced to them . Their first - born , Ellen , ran into an open cistern , the surface of which was just ...
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... play - fellow , a fine boy , named Harry " We have heard a gentleman , who , in virtue of the office he holds as minister at large , is devoted to succouring the poor , state , that even in this city , ( New York , ) he had known very ...
... play - fellow , a fine boy , named Harry " We have heard a gentleman , who , in virtue of the office he holds as minister at large , is devoted to succouring the poor , state , that even in this city , ( New York , ) he had known very ...
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... plays of their deity in a perfect form ? " Conceding the truth of the assertion , an inference does not follow deroga- tory to the genius of Shakspeare , or affecting in the least his popularity as a dramatic author . Some of his ...
... plays of their deity in a perfect form ? " Conceding the truth of the assertion , an inference does not follow deroga- tory to the genius of Shakspeare , or affecting in the least his popularity as a dramatic author . Some of his ...
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... played on the flute and the spinett . He set to music ballads for his court and masses for his chapel , and he left behind him a motett , an anthem , and many scaf- folds . He was certainly a troubadour of most imaginative genius . This ...
... played on the flute and the spinett . He set to music ballads for his court and masses for his chapel , and he left behind him a motett , an anthem , and many scaf- folds . He was certainly a troubadour of most imaginative genius . This ...
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... played at cards and smoked tobacco , which was then recently introduced . It was the fashion for the gentlemen to tear up the cards , as if they had lost some great stake , and then to throw the fragments angrily on the stage - to laugh ...
... played at cards and smoked tobacco , which was then recently introduced . It was the fashion for the gentlemen to tear up the cards , as if they had lost some great stake , and then to throw the fragments angrily on the stage - to laugh ...
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Page 393 - 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 292 - To envelop and contain celestial spirits. Never was such a sudden scholar made ; Never came reformation in a flood, With such a heady...
Page 490 - How often have I paused on every charm, The sheltered cot, the cultivated farm, The never-failing brook, the busy mill, The decent church that topt the neighbouring hill, The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade For talking age and whispering lovers made!
Page 43 - 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 491 - 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 437 - 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 477 - 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 393 - 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 134 - Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury : unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury ; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury...