University Magazine: A Literary and Philosophic Review, Volume 38W. Curry, jun., and Company, 1851 |
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... course , in a fantastic drama like this , probability can be outraged with impunity ; but it does tax our indulgence to the ut- most to listen to such unlikely language as this , addressed by a rude wooer to a countrywoman in an Alpine ...
... course , in a fantastic drama like this , probability can be outraged with impunity ; but it does tax our indulgence to the ut- most to listen to such unlikely language as this , addressed by a rude wooer to a countrywoman in an Alpine ...
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... course allowable ; but with our au- thor it seems done by design . We have marked more than thirty in- stances of it , and , as we said , it pro- duces a fatally ludicrous effect . 334 As the benevolent intention of the author of our ...
... course allowable ; but with our au- thor it seems done by design . We have marked more than thirty in- stances of it , and , as we said , it pro- duces a fatally ludicrous effect . 334 As the benevolent intention of the author of our ...
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... course gave hollow sound , With some raised wavelet's lazy slaps On log and stone around . " — p . 65 . Or the important incident which is gravely chronicled in those lines : - " A duck , beside an isle of wood , Within a watery streak ...
... course gave hollow sound , With some raised wavelet's lazy slaps On log and stone around . " — p . 65 . Or the important incident which is gravely chronicled in those lines : - " A duck , beside an isle of wood , Within a watery streak ...
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... course is to follow the example of the Princess Parizade— stuff your ears with cotton , look nei- ther to the right nor the left , but go steadily on till you have gained the top . So far all is well , but now your dif ficulties and ...
... course is to follow the example of the Princess Parizade— stuff your ears with cotton , look nei- ther to the right nor the left , but go steadily on till you have gained the top . So far all is well , but now your dif ficulties and ...
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... course ? " " Why , no ; who are they ? " he asked , twisting his moustache carelessly . " The family of the resident magis- trate , Mr. Sydenham . Lots of nice young ladies , Mr. Hall . " " Indeed ! do you know them ? " 66 No , sir ; I ...
... course ? " " Why , no ; who are they ? " he asked , twisting his moustache carelessly . " The family of the resident magis- trate , Mr. Sydenham . Lots of nice young ladies , Mr. Hall . " " Indeed ! do you know them ? " 66 No , sir ; I ...
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Page 176 - What good man would prefer a country covered with forests and ranged by a, few thousand savages to our extensive Republic, studded with cities, towns, and prosperous farms, embellished with all the improvements which art can devise or industry execute, occupied by more than 12,000,000 happy people, and filled with all the blessings of liberty, civilization, and religion?
Page 10 - I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.
Page 271 - I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them. If he be my enemy, let him triumph; if he be my friend, as I have given him no personal occasion to be otherwise, he will be glad of my repentance.
Page 23 - PANSIES, lilies, kingcups, daisies, Let them live upon their praises ; Long as there's a sun that sets, Primroses will have their glory ; Long as there are violets, They will have a place in story : There's a flower that shall be mine, 'Tis the little Celandine.
Page 406 - The thing that hath been is that which shall be ; and that which is done is that which shall be done ; and there is no new thing under the sun.
Page 590 - Behold, thou hast made my days as it were a span long : and mine age is even as nothing in respect of thee ; and verily every man living is altogether vanity.
Page 36 - In a drear-nighted December Too happy, happy Tree Thy branches ne'er remember Their green felicity: The north cannot undo them With a sleety whistle through, them, Nor frozen thawings glue them From budding at the prime. In a drear-nighted December...
Page 243 - Whose midnight revels, by a forest side, Or fountain, some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course ; they, on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund music charm his ear ; At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds.
Page 91 - The sandy fields, leaping through flowery groves Of yellow ragwort ; or when rock and hill, The woods, and distant Skiddaw's lofty height, Were bronzed with deepest radiance, stood alone Beneath the sky, as if I had been born On Indian plains, and from my mother's hut Had run abroad in wantonness, to sport, A naked savage, in the thunder shower.
Page 271 - I shall say the less of Mr. Collier, because in many things he has taxed me justly; and I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expressions of mine, which can be truly argued of obscenity, profaneness, or immorality, and retract them.