The North American Review, Volume 66Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge O. Everett, 1848 Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... taste , and also because he had not found it possible to publish his man- uscript on the Constitutions of free nations , of which he had brought the first part to Pescia . Theories did not meet with the same favorable reception which ...
... taste , and also because he had not found it possible to publish his man- uscript on the Constitutions of free nations , of which he had brought the first part to Pescia . Theories did not meet with the same favorable reception which ...
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... taste . ' Take care , ' she wrote to her son , ' to avoid every thing which approaches at ever so great a distance the manner of the philosophical haranguers of 1789 , who thunder as soon as they open their mouths ; warmth must come ...
... taste . ' Take care , ' she wrote to her son , ' to avoid every thing which approaches at ever so great a distance the manner of the philosophical haranguers of 1789 , who thunder as soon as they open their mouths ; warmth must come ...
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... taste corrupted by the somewhat affected brilliancy and theatri- cal turn of mind which are the only drawbacks from the fame of the illustrious woman in whose house they assem- bled . His good - sense and sound discretion , which seemed ...
... taste corrupted by the somewhat affected brilliancy and theatri- cal turn of mind which are the only drawbacks from the fame of the illustrious woman in whose house they assem- bled . His good - sense and sound discretion , which seemed ...
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... taste , and his lack of sensibility to the wonders of nature and art . 66 66 Painters , " he says , are thrown into ecstasies by the warm and rich tints which are reflected from these desert fields , and by the beauties which they lend ...
... taste , and his lack of sensibility to the wonders of nature and art . 66 66 Painters , " he says , are thrown into ecstasies by the warm and rich tints which are reflected from these desert fields , and by the beauties which they lend ...
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... tastes of a student to deaden his sympathies , or lessen his interest in public affairs . He was no politician , not even a political gossip ; but whenever a crisis arose in the affairs either of his own country or of any other , in ...
... tastes of a student to deaden his sympathies , or lessen his interest in public affairs . He was no politician , not even a political gossip ; but whenever a crisis arose in the affairs either of his own country or of any other , in ...
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Page 479 - THE DANDELION. DEAR common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold, First pledge of blithesome May, Which children pluck, and, full of pride, uphold, High-hearted buccaneers, o'erjoyed that they An Eldorado in the grass have found, Which not the rich earth's ample round May match in wealth, — tliou art more dear to me Than all the prouder summerblooms may be.
Page 234 - Vacant their places were, or filled already by strangers. Suddenly, as if arrested by fear or a feeling of wonder, Still she stood, with her colorless lips apart, while a shudder Ran through her frame, and, forgotten, the flowerets dropped from her fingers, And from her eyes and cheeks the light and bloom of the morning. Then there escaped from her lips a cry of such terribls anguish, That the dying heard it, and started up from their pillows.
Page 480 - THE CHANGELING I HAD a little daughter, And she was given to me To lead me gently backward To the Heavenly Father's knee, That I, by the force of nature, Might in some dim wise divine The depth of his infinite patience To this wayward soul of mine.
Page 80 - Our ancestors are very good kind of folks ; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with.
Page 481 - And smiles as she never smiled : When I wake in the morning, I see it Where she always used to lie, And I feel as weak as a violet Alone 'neath the awful sky. *>• As weak, yet as trustful also ; For the whole year long I see All the wonders of faithful Nature Still worked for the love of me; Winds wander, and dews drip earthward, Rain falls, suns rise and set, Earth whirls, and all but to prosper A poor little violet.
Page 242 - And with these words of cheer they arose and continued their journey. Softly the evening came. The sun from the western horizon Like a magician extended his golden wand o'er the landscape ; Twinkling...
Page 476 - New occasions teach new duties; Time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth...
Page 242 - Shook from his little throat such floods of delirious music, That the whole air and the woods and the waves seemed silent to listen. Plaintive at first were the tones and sad; then soaring to madness Seemed they to follow or guide the revel of frenzied Bacchantes. Single notes were then heard, in sorrowful, low lamentation; Till, having gathered them all, he flung them abroad in derision, As when, after a storm, a gust of wind through the tree-tops Shakes down the rattling rain in a crystal shower...