University Magazine: A Literary and Philosophic Review, Volume 45W. Curry, jun., and Company, 1855 |
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... light . No one sees the swarth which he cuts . It springs up from the womb of Eternity , and then , when it is cut down , unseen hands gather it and garner it up into the bosom of that same Eternity which gave it birth . Tick - tack ...
... light . No one sees the swarth which he cuts . It springs up from the womb of Eternity , and then , when it is cut down , unseen hands gather it and garner it up into the bosom of that same Eternity which gave it birth . Tick - tack ...
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... lights are streaming through the sky , and a pale , blue line of light shot like a spear from the door , passing clear through the body of the old man , when lo ! beyond him stood a fair young child , with blue eye and bright cheek ...
... lights are streaming through the sky , and a pale , blue line of light shot like a spear from the door , passing clear through the body of the old man , when lo ! beyond him stood a fair young child , with blue eye and bright cheek ...
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... light and its brightness in the darkness and gloom of winter ; let the garments of your beauty invest its deformity , and shield it from the death - pang of its own cold ; for all is of God , the great First Cause , and all is for good ...
... light and its brightness in the darkness and gloom of winter ; let the garments of your beauty invest its deformity , and shield it from the death - pang of its own cold ; for all is of God , the great First Cause , and all is for good ...
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... light , and the dancing shadows coquetting and gam- bolling along the fronts and faces of the demure books , and the embracing arms of his trusty chair ; and the list- lessness and oblivion of mind , which is repose for brain and bosom ...
... light , and the dancing shadows coquetting and gam- bolling along the fronts and faces of the demure books , and the embracing arms of his trusty chair ; and the list- lessness and oblivion of mind , which is repose for brain and bosom ...
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... light from his lantern falling on the face of the sleeper . Then the father , in a low and subdued voice , and not with- out tears , and beating hearts - which out of happy depths could only sob amen - prayed to him who , " as at this ...
... light from his lantern falling on the face of the sleeper . Then the father , in a low and subdued voice , and not with- out tears , and beating hearts - which out of happy depths could only sob amen - prayed to him who , " as at this ...
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Page 453 - The scripture also affords us a divine pastoral drama in the song of Solomon, consisting of two persons, and a double chorus, as Origen rightly judges. And the Apocalypse of St John is the majestic image of a high and stately tragedy, shutting up and intermingling her solemn scenes and acts with a sevenfold chorus of hallelujahs and harping symphonies ; and this my opinion the grave authority of Pareus, commenting that book, is sufficient to confirm.
Page 447 - Mazzoni, and others, teaches what the laws are of a true epic poem, what of a dramatic, what of a lyric, what decorum is, which is the grand masterpiece to observe.
Page 552 - They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters ; These see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.
Page 288 - Died on his lips, and their motion revealed what his tongue would have spoken. Vainly he strove to rise ; and Evangeline, kneeling beside him, Kissed his dying lips, and laid his head on her bosom. Sweet was the light of his eyes ; but it suddenly sank into darkness, As when a lamp is blown out by a gust of wind at a casement.
Page 87 - I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair. They cannot like me — and in truth, I never knew one of that nation who attempted to do it. There is something more plain and ingenuous in their mode of proceeding. We know one another at first sight. There is an order of imperfect intellects (under which mine must be content to rank), which in its constitution is essentially anti-Caledonian.
Page 87 - There is an order of imperfect intellects (under which mine must be content to rank) which in its constitution is essentially anti-Caledonian. The owners of the sort of faculties I allude to have minds rather suggestive than comprehensive. They have no pretences to much clearness or precision in their ideas, or in their manner of expressing them.
Page 311 - Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.
Page 393 - But doubt not aught from mine array. Thou art my guest; I pledged my word As far as Coilantogle ford : Nor would I call a clansman's brand For aid against one valiant hand, Though on our strife lay every vale Rent by the Saxon from the Gael. So move we on; I only meant To show the reed on which you leant, Deeming this path you might pursue Without a pass from Roderick Dhu.
Page 533 - Lastly, whatsoever in religion is holy and sublime, in virtue amiable or grave, whatsoever hath passion or admiration in all the changes of that, which is called fortune from without, or the wily subtleties and refluxes of man's thoughts from within ; all these things, with a solid and treatable smoothness to paint out and describe...
Page 364 - But in this genial interval, nature is in all her freshness and fragrance ; " the rains are over and gone, the flowers appear upon the earth, the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in the land.