The Literary and Scientific Repository, and Critical Review, Volume 1Wiley and Halsted, 1820 |
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... writing , as to puzzle the best judges , who shall at- tempt to characterize it by any simple uncompounded term . Such however is the work before us : but , from this objection , our au- thor escapes with his characteristical adroitness ...
... writing , as to puzzle the best judges , who shall at- tempt to characterize it by any simple uncompounded term . Such however is the work before us : but , from this objection , our au- thor escapes with his characteristical adroitness ...
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... writer no injustice ; for it is quite impossible - if our hero , with all his nice hereditary notions of honour , had then thought his Lordship's representation both cruel and false - that the letter on that subject , last quoted ...
... writer no injustice ; for it is quite impossible - if our hero , with all his nice hereditary notions of honour , had then thought his Lordship's representation both cruel and false - that the letter on that subject , last quoted ...
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... Writing the letter , was sufficient to quiet the General's conscience , and getting his aid - de - camp to copy it , was a sure and easy method of obtaining another testimonial to his own loyalty.b We now return to our narrative . Burr ...
... Writing the letter , was sufficient to quiet the General's conscience , and getting his aid - de - camp to copy it , was a sure and easy method of obtaining another testimonial to his own loyalty.b We now return to our narrative . Burr ...
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... writer inta greater confidence , both in relation to his object and his means . d ' I accordingly , ' he says , ' wrote him such a letter , ' ( probably that post - marked 13th May , ) ' as struck me to be best calculated to ' produce ...
... writer inta greater confidence , both in relation to his object and his means . d ' I accordingly , ' he says , ' wrote him such a letter , ' ( probably that post - marked 13th May , ) ' as struck me to be best calculated to ' produce ...
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... writing privately to Burr ; d by hinting at the resour- ces to be found in the vaults of the Bank of New - Orleans ; e by suggesting the facility of affronting the Spaniard , and thus mak- ing business for himself on the Sabine ; by ...
... writing privately to Burr ; d by hinting at the resour- ces to be found in the vaults of the Bank of New - Orleans ; e by suggesting the facility of affronting the Spaniard , and thus mak- ing business for himself on the Sabine ; by ...
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Page 435 - For I must tread on shadowy ground, must sink Deep, and, aloft ascending, breathe in worlds To which the heaven of heavens is but a veil. All strength, all terror, single or in bands, That ever was put forth in personal form — Jehovah, with his thunder, and the choir Of shouting Angels, and the empyreal thrones, — I pass them unalarmed.
Page 431 - tis the soul of peace ; Of all the virtues 'tis nearest kin to heaven ; It makes men look like gods. The best of men That e'er wore earth about him was a sufferer, A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit, The first true gentleman that ever breath'd.
Page 102 - Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made: But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
Page 184 - ... paid a license of a hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then immediately taxed from 2 to 10 per cent. Besides the probate, large fees are demanded for burying him in the chancel; his virtues are handed down to posterity on taxed marble ; and he is then gathered to his fathers, — to be taxed no more.
Page 400 - Health to great Jeffrey ! Heaven preserve his life To flourish on the fertile shores of Fife, And guard it sacred in its future wars, Since authors sometimes seek the field of Mars ! Can none remember that eventful day ? That ever glorious, almost fatal fray, When Little's leadless pistol met his eye, And Bow-street myrmidons stood laughing by?
Page 418 - ONE struggle more, and I am free From pangs that rend my heart in twain : One last long sigh to love and thee, Then back to busy life again. It suits me well to mingle now With things that never pleased before : Though every joy is fled below, What future grief can touch me more...
Page 236 - Of the vast meteor sunk, the Poet's blood, That ever beat in mystic sympathy With Nature's ebb and flow, grew feebler still. And, when two lessening points of light alone Gleamed through the darkness, the alternate gasp Of his faint respiration scarce did stir The stagnate night — till the minutest ray Was quenched, the pulse yet lingered in his heart. It paused — it fluttered. But, when heaven remained Utterly black, the murky shades involved An image silent, cold, and motionless, As their own...
Page 186 - In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book ? or goes to an American play : or looks at an American picture or statue ? What does the world yet owe to American physicians or surgeons?
Page 497 - I am willing to love all mankind, except an American ;" and his inflammable corruption bursting into horrid fire, he " breathed out threatenings and slaughter;" calling them " rascals, robbers, pirates," and exclaiming, he'd
Page 416 - 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.