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Pagina 63
... living reputation , as much below the real merits of the age , as it is below the proper dig- nity of man ; and he who should wish to elevate his spirit by examples of wisdom , of genius , and of patriotism , if he could not derive them ...
... living reputation , as much below the real merits of the age , as it is below the proper dig- nity of man ; and he who should wish to elevate his spirit by examples of wisdom , of genius , and of patriotism , if he could not derive them ...
Pagina 80
... living lamps that overarch his head With more than regal splendor ; bends his ears To the full choir of water , air , and earth ; Nor heeds the pleasing errours of his thoughts , " So sweet he feels their influence to attract " The ...
... living lamps that overarch his head With more than regal splendor ; bends his ears To the full choir of water , air , and earth ; Nor heeds the pleasing errours of his thoughts , " So sweet he feels their influence to attract " The ...
Pagina 91
... living God , will be swept away as with the very besom of destruction - nay , life itself , more than ever would hang upon the will of a bar- barous master . The extermination of the Christians will scarcely serve to satiate the ...
... living God , will be swept away as with the very besom of destruction - nay , life itself , more than ever would hang upon the will of a bar- barous master . The extermination of the Christians will scarcely serve to satiate the ...
Pagina 103
... living , those only can conceive the horror of such a moment . In vain the troops endeavoured to resist - the tomahawk was drench- ed in blood - the European heard the dreadful war - cry , and felt that it was his knell ; he received ...
... living , those only can conceive the horror of such a moment . In vain the troops endeavoured to resist - the tomahawk was drench- ed in blood - the European heard the dreadful war - cry , and felt that it was his knell ; he received ...
Pagina 137
... living with a window in their bosoms . It may be thought that this is confined to a class , who , surrounded by the allurements of wealth , seek this kind of publicity to their names and movements . If it were only so , the class is ...
... living with a window in their bosoms . It may be thought that this is confined to a class , who , surrounded by the allurements of wealth , seek this kind of publicity to their names and movements . If it were only so , the class is ...
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The Philadelphia Book: Or, Specimens of Metropolitan Literature Peter Stephen Du Ponceau Volledige weergave - 1836 |
The Philadelphia Book: Or, Specimens of Metropolitan Literature Peter Stephen Du Ponceau Volledige weergave - 1836 |
The Philadelphia Book: Or, Specimens of Metropolitan Literature Peter Stephen Du Ponceau Volledige weergave - 1836 |
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Pagina 319 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd.
Pagina 321 - And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.
Pagina 284 - ... government seems to me a part of religion itself, a thing sacred in its institution and end...
Pagina 81 - Fresh pleasure only : for the attentive mind, By this harmonious action on her powers, Becomes herself harmonious : wont so oft In outward things to meditate the charm Of sacred order, soon she seeks at home To find a kindred order, to exert Within herself this elegance of love, This fair inspired delight : her temper'd powers Refine at length, and every passion wears A chaster, milder, more attractive mien.
Pagina 29 - Jack and Gill went up the hill To draw a pail of water; Jack fell down and broke his crown, And Gill came tumbling after.
Pagina 193 - ... upon one, the hall of which was open, and the windows lifted. After knocking for some time, a young girl appeared, with many marks of distress. In answer to my question, she answered that both her parents were sick, and that they could receive no one. I inquired, in vain, for any other tavern at which strangers might be accommodated. She knew of none such; and left me, on some one's calling to her from above, in the midst of my embarrassment. After a moment's pause, I returned, discomforted and...
Pagina 208 - The worms from the webs, where they riot and welter: His song and his services freely are ours, And all that he asks is — in summer a shelter. The plowman is pleased when he gleans in his train.
Pagina 2 - Harvard College Library FROM THE BEQUEST OF SAMUEL SHAPLEIGH CLASS OF 1789 LIBRARIAN OF HARVARD COLLEGE 1793-1800 4 >4 4 ^ >4.
Pagina 80 - By kind illusions of the wondering sense Thou mak'st all Nature beauty to his eye, Or music to his ear...
Pagina 207 - He flits through the orchard, he visits each tree, The red flowering peach, and the apple's sweet blossoms ; He snaps up destroyers wherever they be, And seizes the caitiffs that lurk in their bosoms ; He drags the vile grub from the corn it devours, The worms from their beds where they riot and welter ; His song and his services freely are ours, And all that he asks is, in summer a shelter.