American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 38Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew 1851 |
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... FAIR is the damsel - passing fair ; Sunny at distance gleams her smile : Approach - the cloud of woful care Hangs trembling in her eye the while . THE PAGAN QUESTIONING THE outward darkness , and the inward 12 [ July , Lucy : A Fragment .
... FAIR is the damsel - passing fair ; Sunny at distance gleams her smile : Approach - the cloud of woful care Hangs trembling in her eye the while . THE PAGAN QUESTIONING THE outward darkness , and the inward 12 [ July , Lucy : A Fragment .
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... fair ; And she sung , in music sweet and wild , Full many a plaintive air . When the desert breath came thick and hot , She , fluttering , waved her wing , Till , fresh from its folds of living light , The soft , cool air would spring ...
... fair ; And she sung , in music sweet and wild , Full many a plaintive air . When the desert breath came thick and hot , She , fluttering , waved her wing , Till , fresh from its folds of living light , The soft , cool air would spring ...
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... fair Frankfort girl , beautiful even in her poor garb , had great doubts , inasmuch as she thought it probable that on the day they landed at New - York several wild Indians would proceed to make a meal of her , having first in a savage ...
... fair Frankfort girl , beautiful even in her poor garb , had great doubts , inasmuch as she thought it probable that on the day they landed at New - York several wild Indians would proceed to make a meal of her , having first in a savage ...
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... fair , Cooling , cleansing the heated air ; Brightening the flowers In garden bowers . On the foot - pressed , thirsty village green , In clustering pearlets it is seen ; Then on the vine - leaves it doth lay ; Now glancing o'er the ...
... fair , Cooling , cleansing the heated air ; Brightening the flowers In garden bowers . On the foot - pressed , thirsty village green , In clustering pearlets it is seen ; Then on the vine - leaves it doth lay ; Now glancing o'er the ...
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... fair : Rain is every where . And on the cottager's garden small , Dazzlingly clear the rain - gems fall ; Upon the creeper's velvet leaves , Where to the latticed porch it cleaves , Like diamonds now , Rain - sparkles glow . It quietly ...
... fair : Rain is every where . And on the cottager's garden small , Dazzlingly clear the rain - gems fall ; Upon the creeper's velvet leaves , Where to the latticed porch it cleaves , Like diamonds now , Rain - sparkles glow . It quietly ...
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Page 602 - I'll tell you, friend! a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow, The rest is all but leather or prunella.
Page 614 - As soon as the sermon is finished, nobody presumes to stir till Sir Roger is gone out of the church. The knight walks down from his seat in the chancel between a double row of his tenants, that stand bowing to him on each side : and every now and then inquires...
Page 106 - In the hour of my distress, When temptations me oppress, And when I my sins confess, Sweet Spirit, comfort me ! When I lie within my bed, Sick in heart and sick in head, And with doubts discomforted, Sweet Spirit, comfort me...
Page 432 - It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
Page 174 - To aid thy mind's development, to watch Thy dawn of little joys, to sit and see Almost thy very growth, to view thee catch Knowledge of objects, — wonders yet to thee ! To hold thee lightly on a gentle knee, And print on thy soft cheek a parent's kiss, — This, it should seem, was not reserved for me ; Yet this was in my nature : as it is, I know not what is there, yet something like to this.
Page 92 - Rain falls, suns rise and set, Earth whirls, and all but to prosper A poor little violet. This child is not mine as the first was, I cannot sing it to rest, I cannot lift it up fatherly And...
Page 491 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made, When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! — Scarce were the piteous accents said, When, with the Baron's casque, the maid To the nigh streamlet ran.
Page 82 - With them I take delight in weal And seek relief in woe; And while I understand and feel How much to them I owe, My cheeks have often been bedew'd With tears of thoughtful gratitude.
Page 614 - squire has made all his tenants atheists and tithe-stealers, while the parson instructs them every Sunday in the dignity of his order, and insinuates to them, in almost every sermon, that he is a better man than his patron. In short, matters are come to such an extremity, that the 'squire has not said his prayers, either in public or private, this half year; and that the parson threatens him, if he does not mend his manners, to pray for him in the face of the whole congregation.
Page 92 - A tutor should not be continually thundering instruction into the ears of his pupil, as if he were pouring it through a funnel, but, after having put the lad, like a young horse, on a trot, before him, to observe his paces, and see what he is able to perform, should, according to the extent of his capacity, induce him to taste, to distinguish, and to find out things for himself; sometimes opening the way, at other times leaving it for him to open ; and by abating or increasing his own pace, accommodate...