The Philadelphia Book, Or, Specimens of Metropolitan LiteratureKey & Biddle, 1836 - 380 pagina's |
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Pagina 21
... seemed to degrade it into a ballad , but its interesting subject , its unity of plan , and , above all , its having a beginning , middle , and an end , decide its claim to the epic rank . I shall now proceed with the candour , though ...
... seemed to degrade it into a ballad , but its interesting subject , its unity of plan , and , above all , its having a beginning , middle , and an end , decide its claim to the epic rank . I shall now proceed with the candour , though ...
Pagina 47
... seemed to be intent on his game . Just after he accosted me , an officer , in a rich habit and laced hat , but unarmed , came riding very fast over the heath , leading a horse ready saddled and bridled , and drawing up close to where we ...
... seemed to be intent on his game . Just after he accosted me , an officer , in a rich habit and laced hat , but unarmed , came riding very fast over the heath , leading a horse ready saddled and bridled , and drawing up close to where we ...
Pagina 57
... seemed as if return was impossible by any other way than that through the cavern . If I now turned my attention to the interior space . you imagine a cylindrical mass , with a cavity dug in the centre , whose edge conforms to the ...
... seemed as if return was impossible by any other way than that through the cavern . If I now turned my attention to the interior space . you imagine a cylindrical mass , with a cavity dug in the centre , whose edge conforms to the ...
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... seemed as if it were possible to leap over it , but a nearer examination showed me that the passage was impracticable . So far as my eye could estimate it , the breadth was thirty or forty feet . I could scarcely venture to look beneath ...
... seemed as if it were possible to leap over it , but a nearer examination showed me that the passage was impracticable . So far as my eye could estimate it , the breadth was thirty or forty feet . I could scarcely venture to look beneath ...
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... seemed impossible for human efforts to have placed him.- But this affected me but little in comparison with other incidents . Not only the countenance was human , but in spite of shaggy and tangled locks , and an air of melan- choly ...
... seemed impossible for human efforts to have placed him.- But this affected me but little in comparison with other incidents . Not only the countenance was human , but in spite of shaggy and tangled locks , and an air of melan- choly ...
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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.