Littell's Living Age, Volume 166Living Age Company Incorporated, 1885 |
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... writer gave satisfac- tory hostages for the deep spirit of hu- manity by which he was imbued . For proof of this fine cosmopolitan spirit turn to his poem " The Fatherland , " to the splendid tribute to Hampden and Crom- well in " A ...
... writer gave satisfac- tory hostages for the deep spirit of hu- manity by which he was imbued . For proof of this fine cosmopolitan spirit turn to his poem " The Fatherland , " to the splendid tribute to Hampden and Crom- well in " A ...
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... writer . It seems scarcely credible that its author should be our humorous friend Hosea Biglow ; but what a glimpse of the man's real heart we get in it ! We quote the whole , for the simple reason that the excision of one stanza would ...
... writer . It seems scarcely credible that its author should be our humorous friend Hosea Biglow ; but what a glimpse of the man's real heart we get in it ! We quote the whole , for the simple reason that the excision of one stanza would ...
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... writing . In leaving the miscellaneous poems of this writer we have only one further observation to make upon their moral aspect : notwithstanding that the aim and spirit of their author were at an early period in his career mis ...
... writing . In leaving the miscellaneous poems of this writer we have only one further observation to make upon their moral aspect : notwithstanding that the aim and spirit of their author were at an early period in his career mis ...
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... writing apparatus was in order , with good pens and fresh ink , for Dr. Mayfair to write the prescriptions with . They could do little good now , for all the good pens and paper . The neat packets of letters , an- swered and unanswered ...
... writing apparatus was in order , with good pens and fresh ink , for Dr. Mayfair to write the prescriptions with . They could do little good now , for all the good pens and paper . The neat packets of letters , an- swered and unanswered ...
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... writing to her friend Cleone as To - day there came to visit us a writer who is not yet an Author : his name is Thucydides . We understand that he has been these several years engaged in preparation for a history . Pericles invited him ...
... writing to her friend Cleone as To - day there came to visit us a writer who is not yet an Author : his name is Thucydides . We understand that he has been these several years engaged in preparation for a history . Pericles invited him ...
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Page 498 - Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar?
Page 45 - The remotest discoveries of the chemist, the botanist, or mineralogist, will be as proper objects of the poet's art as any upon which it can be employed, if the time should ever come when these things shall be familiar to us, and the relations under which they are contemplated by the followers of these respective sciences shall be manifestly and palpably material to us as enjoying and suffering beings.
Page 7 - 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 7 - 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.
Page 161 - ... keep the word of promise to the ear, and break it to the hope" — we have presumed to court the assistance of the friends of the drama to strengthen our infant institution.
Page 7 - They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak; They are slaves who will not choose Hatred, scoffing, and abuse, Rather than in silence shrink From the truth they needs must think; They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.
Page 52 - Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsy charm To bless the doors from nightly harm.
Page 47 - From such verses the Poems in these volumes will be found distinguished at least by one mark of difference, that each of them has a worthy purpose.
Page 7 - Lo, it is I, be not afraid! In many climes, without avail, Thou hast spent thy life for the Holy Grail; Behold, it is here, — this cup which thou Didst fill at the streamlet for me but now; This crust is my body broken for thee, This water His blood that died on the tree; The Holy Supper is kept, indeed, In whatso we share with another's need...
Page 194 - IN winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer, quite the other way, I have to go to bed by day. I have to go bed and see The birds still hopping on the tree, Or hear the grown-up people's feet Still going past me in the street. And does it not seem hard to you, When all the sky is clear and blue, And I should like so much to play, To have to go to bed by day...