Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 22Leavitt, Throw and Company, 1851 |
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... hour ; for to every American of better caste and aspirations a pilgrimage to Eng- land must ever be , what a visit to Greece was for the vir bonus of ancient Rome , the crowning mercy and seal to the education of a gentleman ; and we ...
... hour ; for to every American of better caste and aspirations a pilgrimage to Eng- land must ever be , what a visit to Greece was for the vir bonus of ancient Rome , the crowning mercy and seal to the education of a gentleman ; and we ...
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... hour . The rival and successor of Lope , Pedro de Calderon de la Barca ( 1600-1681 ) , was also a soldier and a priest . Fertile in autos , loas , and plays lay and religious , his Oriental or- nament and meteoric brilliancy of language ...
... hour . The rival and successor of Lope , Pedro de Calderon de la Barca ( 1600-1681 ) , was also a soldier and a priest . Fertile in autos , loas , and plays lay and religious , his Oriental or- nament and meteoric brilliancy of language ...
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... hour twelve bullets were lodged in his fore - quarters : he trembled , and gave evident signs of approaching dissolution , catching up the dust with his trunk , and flinging it in clouds above him . This is a common device with ...
... hour twelve bullets were lodged in his fore - quarters : he trembled , and gave evident signs of approaching dissolution , catching up the dust with his trunk , and flinging it in clouds above him . This is a common device with ...
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... hour to spare ? Sit down and causons . Causons de la France . Let us talk of France . Poor France ! " and covering with his hand that countenance of which neither age nor misfortune had changed either the great lines or the strong ...
... hour to spare ? Sit down and causons . Causons de la France . Let us talk of France . Poor France ! " and covering with his hand that countenance of which neither age nor misfortune had changed either the great lines or the strong ...
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... hours I have heard this reproach ! Well , to you I answer as I did to Z , who came here yesterday from Paris , and held me the same pain- ful language . Never was there a more unfound- ed reproach . They don't know then- ( on ne sait ...
... hours I have heard this reproach ! Well , to you I answer as I did to Z , who came here yesterday from Paris , and held me the same pain- ful language . Never was there a more unfound- ed reproach . They don't know then- ( on ne sait ...
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Page 55 - Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Come, and trip it as you go On the light fantastic toe...
Page 232 - And he said, BLESSED be the Lord God of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant. God shall enlarge Japheth, And he shall dwell in the tents of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant.
Page 197 - Ay, sir ; to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.
Page 239 - My life is dreary, He cometh not," she said; She said, "I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead!
Page 193 - In the first rank of these did Zimri stand ;* A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long...
Page 469 - Behold, I stand at the door, and knock : if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and sup with him, and he with me.
Page 71 - Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people, being necessary for the preservation of their rights and liberties; and as these depend on spreading the opportunities and advantages of education in the various parts of the country, and among the different orders of the people, it shall be the duty of legislatures and magistrates, in all future periods of this commonwealth, to cherish the interests of literature and the sciences, and all seminaries of them;...
Page 69 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both!
Page 66 - Calvinists, you see, stick fast where they were left by that great man of God who yet saw not all things.
Page 250 - Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite ; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good. Ring out old shapes of foul disease, Ring out the narrowing lust of gold ; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace. Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand ; Ring out the darkness of the land, Ring in the Christ that is to be.