The Southern literary messenger, Volumen 151849 |
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... dark night has fallen upon the men begin , at least here and there , to appear in fairest parts of the Old World . Ours has been the triumph of the sword and the victory of the race ; powerful and honored abroad , prosperous and happy ...
... dark night has fallen upon the men begin , at least here and there , to appear in fairest parts of the Old World . Ours has been the triumph of the sword and the victory of the race ; powerful and honored abroad , prosperous and happy ...
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... dark and chill , I would this fevered pulse were still .. The Heaven , that bends so calm above , As if God's smile were there , Is like thy brow , departed love ! — And scarce more pure and fair- " Dust unto dust " -but not while grace ...
... dark and chill , I would this fevered pulse were still .. The Heaven , that bends so calm above , As if God's smile were there , Is like thy brow , departed love ! — And scarce more pure and fair- " Dust unto dust " -but not while grace ...
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... dark shadows His dormant reason can only be awakened , stim- which surround its base . We remember , with ulated , guided and supported , by means of his sad tenderness , the valley where we sported at affections . But his very ...
... dark shadows His dormant reason can only be awakened , stim- which surround its base . We remember , with ulated , guided and supported , by means of his sad tenderness , the valley where we sported at affections . But his very ...
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... dark and gloomy superstitions of the North : whilst the more brilliant and splendid enchantments of later fables are traced to the people of those sunny regions , which produced the Arabian Night's tion . Entertainments . And the spirit ...
... dark and gloomy superstitions of the North : whilst the more brilliant and splendid enchantments of later fables are traced to the people of those sunny regions , which produced the Arabian Night's tion . Entertainments . And the spirit ...
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... dark adversity And wear thee in his spirit's inmost core , Then turn on me thine eyes of liquid light Give me thy lily hand in mine to press And thou wilt fill my soul with happiness My heart carissima ! with deep delight . She turned ...
... dark adversity And wear thee in his spirit's inmost core , Then turn on me thine eyes of liquid light Give me thy lily hand in mine to press And thou wilt fill my soul with happiness My heart carissima ! with deep delight . She turned ...
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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 - ... all the decent drapery of life is to be rudely torn off. all the superadded ideas furnished from the wardrobe of a moral imagination which the heart owns and the understanding ratifies as necessary to cover the defects of our naked shivering nature and to raise it to dignity in our own estimation are to be exploded as a ridiculous absurd and antiquated fashion.
Página 277 - 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 14 - The perfect historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age is exhibited in miniature. He relates no fact, he attributes no expression to his characters, which is not authenticated by sufficient testimony. But by judicious selection, rejection, and arrangement, he gives to truth those attractions which have been usurped by fiction.
Página 46 - Silently one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.
Página 394 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me : and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me : because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me ; and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
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 14 - He relates no fact, he attributes no expression to his characters, which is not authenticated by sufficient testimony. But, by judicious selection, rejection, and arrangement he gives to truth those attractions which have been usurped by fiction. In his narrative a due subordination is observed : some transactions are prominent ; others retire. But the scale on which he represents them is...
Página 276 - Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine, that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field ; tha£ of course, they are many in number ; or that, after all, they are other than the little shrivelled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome insects of the hour.
Página 468 - For why ? because the good old rule Sufficeth them, the simple plan, That they should take, who have the power, And they should keep who can.