American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 35Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew 1850 |
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... turning to the west , we saw the heralding of a bril- liant sunset , one of those occasions ' when nature takes a coloring fit and does something extraordinary ; things which can only be conceived , while they are visible . ' We watched ...
... turning to the west , we saw the heralding of a bril- liant sunset , one of those occasions ' when nature takes a coloring fit and does something extraordinary ; things which can only be conceived , while they are visible . ' We watched ...
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... turned on itself . Our sensibilities and our censures are sadly taxed in daily viewing the conflicts and struggles of the aspiring mind with the young but en- feebled body : ' CUT is the branch that might have grown full straight , And ...
... turned on itself . Our sensibilities and our censures are sadly taxed in daily viewing the conflicts and struggles of the aspiring mind with the young but en- feebled body : ' CUT is the branch that might have grown full straight , And ...
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... turning him aside , told the old lady to take the money , and we would be back in a day or two and do her job . Our boat was already engaged , and on reaching it I found W- swearing that he would never come within reach of such a ...
... turning him aside , told the old lady to take the money , and we would be back in a day or two and do her job . Our boat was already engaged , and on reaching it I found W- swearing that he would never come within reach of such a ...
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... turned , Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned . ' But with all the momentary applause that followed the Ben Jonsons , the Marlowes , the Malones and the Congreves , their fame was never world - wide , nor to become so . They dragged ...
... turned , Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned . ' But with all the momentary applause that followed the Ben Jonsons , the Marlowes , the Malones and the Congreves , their fame was never world - wide , nor to become so . They dragged ...
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... turning up coppers , are the only vices that VOL . XXXV . to . We extract the following from a letter to a friend . The writer is evidently down in the Musquito country : This place is sum , speshially in summer . Your nose Ime tached ...
... turning up coppers , are the only vices that VOL . XXXV . to . We extract the following from a letter to a friend . The writer is evidently down in the Musquito country : This place is sum , speshially in summer . Your nose Ime tached ...
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Page 80 - Tis of the wave and not the rock; Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale! In spite of rock and tempest's roar, In spite of false lights on the shore, Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea! Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee...
Page 461 - Nothing in my hand I bring; Simply to thy cross I cling ; Naked, come to thee for dress ; Helpless, look to thee for grace ; Foul, I to the fountain fly ; Wash me, Saviour, or I die.
Page 547 - There is no more interesting spectacle than to see the effects of wit upon the different characters of men ; than to observe it expanding caution, relaxing dignity, unfreezing coldness, teaching age, and care, and pain to smile, extorting reluctant gleams of pleasure from melancholy, and Charming -even the pangs of grief.
Page 521 - That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow • warmer among the ruins of lona.
Page 277 - When the world is dark with tempests, when thunder rolls and lightning flies, thou lookest in thy beauty from the clouds, and laughest at the storm. But to Ossian thou lookest in vain, for he beholds thy beams no more; whether thy yellow hair flows on the eastern clouds, or thou tremblest at the gates of the west. But thou art perhaps, like me, for a season; thy years will have an end. Thou shalt sleep in thy clouds careless of the voice of the morning.
Page 461 - Rock of Ages, cleft for me, Let me hide myself in Thee ! Let the water and the blood, From Thy riven side which flow'd, Be of sin the double cure, Cleanse me from its guilt and power.
Page 277 - O sun! thy everlasting light? Thou comest forth, in thy awful beauty; the stars hide themselves in the sky; the moon, cold and pale, sinks in the western wave. But thou thyself movest alone: who can be a companion of thy course! The oaks of the mountains fall: the mountains themselves decay with years; the ocean shrinks and grows again: the moon herself is lost in heaven; but thou art for ever the same; rejoicing in the brightness of thy course.
Page 49 - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee; for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God; where thou diest I will die, and there will I be buried; the Lord do so to me, and more also, if ought but death part thee and me.
Page 547 - I have talked of the danger of wit : I do not mean by that to enter into commonplace declamation against faculties because they are dangerous ; — wit is dangerous, eloquence is dangerous, a talent for observation is dangerous, every thing is dangerous that has efficacy and vigor for its characteristics ; nothing is safe but mediocrity.
Page 551 - Till in his arms their lambs he takes, Along the dizzy verge to go, Then, heedless of the rifts and breaks, They follow on, o'er rock and snow. And in those pastures, lifted fair, More dewy soft than lowland mead, The shepherd drops his tender care, And sheep and lambs together feed.