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tion is finely mingled with tenderness . It illus- trates at once the spontaneous movement and the artistic grace of his earlier poems ; and the stanza , which we have not met with elsewhere , may be called a sort of lyrical sonnet ...
tion is finely mingled with tenderness . It illus- trates at once the spontaneous movement and the artistic grace of his earlier poems ; and the stanza , which we have not met with elsewhere , may be called a sort of lyrical sonnet ...
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... tion permits him to speak the truth . His sympa - parently were ever prompt to repay it with an es- thies with others teach him to know himself ; and , with the understanding that nothing which he says is to be interpreted literally ...
... tion permits him to speak the truth . His sympa - parently were ever prompt to repay it with an es- thies with others teach him to know himself ; and , with the understanding that nothing which he says is to be interpreted literally ...
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... tion of form never reached by the other . In pas- sion he was inferior to both the poets named ; its place being supplied by a fancy which sometimes strayed in the direction of prettinesses , if not of conceits , but more often ...
... tion of form never reached by the other . In pas- sion he was inferior to both the poets named ; its place being supplied by a fancy which sometimes strayed in the direction of prettinesses , if not of conceits , but more often ...
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... tion , and remarks . every From the middle of September up to the middle of than eight English vessels , whose joint measurement November , 1850 , a space of only two months , no less amounted to about two thousand three hundred tons ...
... tion , and remarks . every From the middle of September up to the middle of than eight English vessels , whose joint measurement November , 1850 , a space of only two months , no less amounted to about two thousand three hundred tons ...
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... tion or expression . But the interest attached to them is not in their substance so much as in the as- sociations connected with them , and the wonderful and melancholy history which passed over the writer between the bright dawn of ...
... tion or expression . But the interest attached to them is not in their substance so much as in the as- sociations connected with them , and the wonderful and melancholy history which passed over the writer between the bright dawn of ...
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Page 116 - I wish it were possible, from this instance, to invent a method of embalming drowned persons in such a manner that they may be recalled to life at any period, however distant ; for having a very ardent desire to see and observe the state of America a hundred years hence, I should prefer to any ordinary death the being immersed in a cask of Madeira wine with a few friends till that time, to be then recalled to life by the solar warmth of my dear country...
Page 163 - ... and, when that diligent bird has at length taken a fish, and is bearing it to his nest for the support of his mate and young ones, the bald eagle pursues him and takes it from him. With all this injustice he is never in good case ; but, like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy.
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Page 163 - I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; he does not get his living honestly...
Page 163 - By his wide curvature of wing and sudden suspension in the air he knows him to be the fish-hawk, settling over some devoted victim of the deep. His eye kindles at the sight, and balancing himself, with half-opened wings on the branch, he watches the result. Down, rapid as an arrow from heaven, descends the distant object of his attention, the roar of its wings reaching the ear as it disappears in the deep, making the surges foam around. At this moment the eager looks of the eagle are all ardour,...
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