Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 3; Volume 66John Holmes Agnew, Henry T. Steele, Walter Hilliard Bidwell Leavitt, Throw and Company, 1866 |
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... feeling of humor , is true , but this can hardly be imputed to him as a fault . He never appeals to our sense of the ridiculous : he was much too earnest for jocularity , and he made his poem as serious as the grave and the world beyond ...
... feeling of humor , is true , but this can hardly be imputed to him as a fault . He never appeals to our sense of the ridiculous : he was much too earnest for jocularity , and he made his poem as serious as the grave and the world beyond ...
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... feeling of desola- tion which has seized her , she strives to recall the memories of her child- hood , and thus to regain the careless- ness and poetry of the past , she meets one of her old play - mates , Michel , who for several years ...
... feeling of desola- tion which has seized her , she strives to recall the memories of her child- hood , and thus to regain the careless- ness and poetry of the past , she meets one of her old play - mates , Michel , who for several years ...
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... feeling that a love more potent , an infinite love , a redeem- ing love , envelops this poor earth to save and to bless it . Yes , God is wanting to these two noble beings , who have learned that it is not enough to live for each other ...
... feeling that a love more potent , an infinite love , a redeem- ing love , envelops this poor earth to save and to bless it . Yes , God is wanting to these two noble beings , who have learned that it is not enough to live for each other ...
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... feeling amongst the literary men of her day than did Lady Mary Wortley Montagu by the wanton shafts of her coarse and relentless tongue . One of her few ad- mirers , Spence , indeed , said of her : " She is one of the most shining char ...
... feeling amongst the literary men of her day than did Lady Mary Wortley Montagu by the wanton shafts of her coarse and relentless tongue . One of her few ad- mirers , Spence , indeed , said of her : " She is one of the most shining char ...
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... feeling toward her , which his general conduct to her , and the regrets he ex- pressed on her death , do not warrant us in accusing him of " When they His description of her in Paris , in 1760 , is amusing , and does not evince the ...
... feeling toward her , which his general conduct to her , and the regrets he ex- pressed on her death , do not warrant us in accusing him of " When they His description of her in Paris , in 1760 , is amusing , and does not evince the ...
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Page 463 - Prick'd from the lazy finger of a maid : Her chariot is an empty hazel-nut, Made by the joiner squirrel, or old grub, Time out of mind the fairies' coach-makers. And in this state she gallops night by night Through lovers...
Page 461 - Sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness...
Page 68 - Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms ; that made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof ; that opened not the house of his prisoners...
Page 19 - Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato to unfold What worlds, or what vast regions hold The immortal mind, that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook...
Page 68 - The earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof ; the world, and they that dwell therein.
Page 303 - This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon; The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers; For this, for everything, we are out of tune; It moves us not.
Page 70 - He made darkness His secret place: His pavilion round about Him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
Page 70 - In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried unto my God: He heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.
Page 68 - Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
Page 69 - The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit : A broken and a contrite heart, O God, Thou wilt not despise. Do good in Thy good pleasure unto Zion : Build Thou the walls of Jerusalem.