Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 42; Volume 105John Holmes Agnew, Henry T. Steele, Walter Hilliard Bidwell Leavitt, Throw and Company, 1885 |
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... thought it compatible with their duty to treat correspondents confidentially , and they have not been known to suffer from it . The mischief has been done , where it has arisen , through correspondents being kept in the dark , and the ...
... thought it compatible with their duty to treat correspondents confidentially , and they have not been known to suffer from it . The mischief has been done , where it has arisen , through correspondents being kept in the dark , and the ...
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... thought that the readers of this REVIEW may well be disposed to give attention to a somewhat more detailed account of the contents of this remarkable poem , not only from the literary point of view , but on account of its singular ...
... thought that the readers of this REVIEW may well be disposed to give attention to a somewhat more detailed account of the contents of this remarkable poem , not only from the literary point of view , but on account of its singular ...
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... thought darted into his mind , he entered it in his book . Miss Martineau has recorded that Barry Cornwall's favorite method of composition was indulged when alone in a crowd , and best in the streets of London . He had also a habit of ...
... thought darted into his mind , he entered it in his book . Miss Martineau has recorded that Barry Cornwall's favorite method of composition was indulged when alone in a crowd , and best in the streets of London . He had also a habit of ...
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... thought , this discovery would have led him to wider reflections than those which ultimately determined his action . He would have reflected that by the very fact of his father's invocation of the military element to overawe the Gov ...
... thought , this discovery would have led him to wider reflections than those which ultimately determined his action . He would have reflected that by the very fact of his father's invocation of the military element to overawe the Gov ...
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... thought to apply the curb when he pleased ; but he found to his dismay that the courser took no heed of bit or bridle , and that he was utterly powerless to bring under restraint the revolt which he himself had deliber- ately turned ...
... thought to apply the curb when he pleased ; but he found to his dismay that the courser took no heed of bit or bridle , and that he was utterly powerless to bring under restraint the revolt which he himself had deliber- ately turned ...
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Page 333 - Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court? Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, — The seasons...
Page 521 - In form and moving how express and admirable ! In action how like an angel! In apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the world! The paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me, — no, nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so.
Page 521 - A murderer and a villain ; A slave that is not twentieth part the tithe Of your precedent lord ; a vice of kings ; A cutpurse of the empire and the rule, That from a shelf the precious diadem stole, And put it in his pocket ! Queen.
Page 141 - Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground ; Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
Page 161 - Not only around our infancy Doth heaven with all its splendors lie; Daily, with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb and know it not.
Page 523 - The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely. The pangs of despis'd love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin...
Page 301 - IT is a beauteous evening, calm and free ; The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration...
Page 521 - O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown: The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword, The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observ'd of all observers, quite, quite down.
Page 522 - Ay, sir ; to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.
Page 161 - This water his blood that died on the tree; The Holy Supper is kept, indeed, In whatso we share with another's need ; Not what we give, but what we share, For the gift without the giver is bare ; Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me.