Southern Literary Messenger, Volumen 15Jno. R. Thompson, 1849 |
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... earth and their vote in the affairs of Europe . With the modesty of true pride they spoke not of the days of ancient Rome when their fathers owned all the rich lands from Drave to Danube , from the foot of the Alps to where now stands ...
... earth and their vote in the affairs of Europe . With the modesty of true pride they spoke not of the days of ancient Rome when their fathers owned all the rich lands from Drave to Danube , from the foot of the Alps to where now stands ...
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... Earth ! on thy cold couch of clay- Still a strange something tells my heart- Thy presence haunts me yet- That kindred - natures cannot part , Nor kindred souls forget- Death's tyrant - power is more than vain , Beloved ! we shall meet ...
... Earth ! on thy cold couch of clay- Still a strange something tells my heart- Thy presence haunts me yet- That kindred - natures cannot part , Nor kindred souls forget- Death's tyrant - power is more than vain , Beloved ! we shall meet ...
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... Earth might not become too much like Heaven . II . And do they not , dear Bell , in sooth possess , One half the power of which old legends tell ? — An influence to hallow , and to bless- Calypso's wand of love , not Circe's spell ...
... Earth might not become too much like Heaven . II . And do they not , dear Bell , in sooth possess , One half the power of which old legends tell ? — An influence to hallow , and to bless- Calypso's wand of love , not Circe's spell ...
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... earth - as a won- been most aptly defined as an instinct . Many derful cabinet on a grand scale , whence to draw of Dr. Channing's views were derived purely gems of truth , or specimens of character , for the from his own individual ...
... earth - as a won- been most aptly defined as an instinct . Many derful cabinet on a grand scale , whence to draw of Dr. Channing's views were derived purely gems of truth , or specimens of character , for the from his own individual ...
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... earth's control , imparting a consciousness of power , called into action hopes , aims and sentiments , which , unen- voked , might have long slumbered in impotent despair . This was a high service . Let it be duly honored . We believe ...
... earth's control , imparting a consciousness of power , called into action hopes , aims and sentiments , which , unen- voked , might have long slumbered in impotent despair . This was a high service . Let it be duly honored . We believe ...
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Página 118 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it : I have killed many : I have fully glutted my vengeance : for my country I rejoice at the beams of peace. . But do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Página 293 - IN THE greenest of our valleys, By good angels tenanted, Once a fair and stately palace — Radiant palace — reared its head. In the monarch Thought's dominion — It stood there! Never seraph spread a pinion Over fabric half so fair.
Página 297 - Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys: So well-bred spaniels civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite.
Página 118 - How far in the discharge of my official duties I have been guided by the principles which have been delineated, the public records and other evidences of my conduct must witness to you and to the world.
Página 277 - But now all is to be changed. All the pleasing illusions which made power gentle and obedience liberal, which harmonized the different shades of life, and which, by a bland assimilation, incorporated into politics the sentiments which beautify and soften private society, are to be dissolved by this new conquering empire of light and reason. All the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off.
Página 297 - A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest; Beauty that shocks you, parts that none will trust, Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
Página 118 - Whatever they may be, I fervently beseech the Almighty to avert or mitigate the evils, to which they may tend. I shall also carry with me the hope that my country will never cease to view them with indulgence...
Página 276 - He made an administration so checkered and speckled, he put together a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed ; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified mosaic; such a tesselated pavement without cement ; here a bit of black stone and there a bit of white...
Página 143 - ... he that can, with Epicurus, content his ideas with the films and images that fly off upon his senses from the superficies of things ; such a man, truly wise, creams off nature, leaving the sour and the dregs for philosophy and reason to lap up. This is the sublime and refined point of felicity, called the possession of being well deceived ; the serene peaceful state of being a fool among knaves.
Página 191 - There comes Poe, with his raven, like Barnaby Rudge, Three fifths of him genius and two fifths sheer fudge, Who talks like a book of iambs and pentameters, In a way to make people of common sense damn metres, Who has written some things quite the best of their kind, But the heart somehow seems all squeezed out by the mind, Who — But hey-day!