The Penn Monthly, Volume 1Robert Ellis Thompson, William Wilberforce Newton, Otis H. Kendall University Press Company, 1870 |
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... church in words as scathing as those which Bernard de Morlas had used two hundred and fifty years before . There was a breathless pause among the people , for many ex- pected to hear a sudden burst of words from II Frate , like that ...
... church in words as scathing as those which Bernard de Morlas had used two hundred and fifty years before . There was a breathless pause among the people , for many ex- pected to hear a sudden burst of words from II Frate , like that ...
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... church of San Pietro in Vincula , may surely be pardoned if he fancies that he reads in the regal presence of the majestic Moses the Great Thought which held the admiration of the multitude in the Via Larga . Michel Angelo's whole life ...
... church of San Pietro in Vincula , may surely be pardoned if he fancies that he reads in the regal presence of the majestic Moses the Great Thought which held the admiration of the multitude in the Via Larga . Michel Angelo's whole life ...
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... church and state are thus de- pendent on a liberal education , the lower offices of the learned and scientific professions are not exempt from the same demand . No one can be an engineer , an apothecary , a teacher - in fact , enter any ...
... church and state are thus de- pendent on a liberal education , the lower offices of the learned and scientific professions are not exempt from the same demand . No one can be an engineer , an apothecary , a teacher - in fact , enter any ...
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... church , where Wordsworth's grave is made , shoots up from among the overshadowing clouds . The Scaur Fell , some two or three thousand feet high , is just oppo- site , standing higher than the noble hills around - the sentinel guard of ...
... church , where Wordsworth's grave is made , shoots up from among the overshadowing clouds . The Scaur Fell , some two or three thousand feet high , is just oppo- site , standing higher than the noble hills around - the sentinel guard of ...
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... . For singing is the great delight of the German student , the never - failing accom- paniment of all his occupations : he sings at home ; at church • he maketh a loud noise , and he evidently 1870. ] 47 German Student Life .
... . For singing is the great delight of the German student , the never - failing accom- paniment of all his occupations : he sings at home ; at church • he maketh a loud noise , and he evidently 1870. ] 47 German Student Life .
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Page 172 - tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly; if the assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch With his surcease success : that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here, But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, We'd jump the life to come.
Page 145 - Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below.
Page 372 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me: Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Page 98 - Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things.
Page 299 - In a warfare with the remnants of a palaeozoic age ; And the way they heaved those fossils in their anger was / a sin, ' Till the skull of an old mammoth caved the head of Thompson in. And this is all I have to say of these improper games, For I live at Table Mountain, and my name is Truthful James ; And I've told in simple language what I know about the row That broke up our Society upon the Stanislow. LUKE (iN THE COLORADO PARK, 1873) WOT 's that you 're readin ' ? — a novel ? A novel ! — well,...
Page 144 - The castled crag of Drachenfels * Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine, Whose breast of waters broadly swells Between the banks which bear the vine, And hills all rich with blossom'd trees, And fields which promise corn and wine, And scatter'd cities crowning these.
Page 144 - And peasant girls, with deep blue eyes, And hands which offer early flowers, Walk smiling o'er this paradise ; Above, the frequent feudal towers Through green leaves lift their walls of gray ; And many a rock which steeply lowers, And noble arch in proud decay, Look o'er this vale of vintage-bowers...
Page 325 - How modest, kindly, all-accomplish'd, wise, With what sublime repression of himself, And in what limits, and how tenderly ; Not swaying to this faction or to that ; Not making his high place the lawless perch Of wing'd ambitions, nor a vantageground For pleasure ; but thro...
Page 364 - I believe that the laboring classes generally, in the manufacturing districts of this country, and especially in the iron and coal districts, are very little aware of the extent to which they are often indebted for their being employed at all, to the immense losses which their employers voluntarily incur in bad times, in order to destroy foreign competition, and to gain and keep possession of foreign markets.
Page 173 - Which would be worn now in their newest gloss, Not cast aside so soon. Lady M. Was the hope drunk Wherein you dress'd yourself? hath it slept since, And wakes it now, to look so green and pale At what it did so freely ? From this time Such I account thy love. Art thou...