The North American Review, Volume 20Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge O. Everett, 1825 Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... course the means of forming a sort of indirect personal acquaintance with the author . Every one of his successive publications is felt as a visit from a valued friend . Our occupations and our pleasures be- come in some degree ...
... course the means of forming a sort of indirect personal acquaintance with the author . Every one of his successive publications is felt as a visit from a valued friend . Our occupations and our pleasures be- come in some degree ...
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... course ; and we apprehend that it is not from a selfish calculation of what they shall lose in renown and glory , that at such times the brightest eyes are suffused with tears , and the noblest hearts swelled with sorrow . The fair ...
... course ; and we apprehend that it is not from a selfish calculation of what they shall lose in renown and glory , that at such times the brightest eyes are suffused with tears , and the noblest hearts swelled with sorrow . The fair ...
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... course be so well satisfied with them himself , as he formerly was . To write immorally and negligently , for the purpose of expressing contempt and defiance of the world , is not quite so pleasing as to write well and be praised for it ...
... course be so well satisfied with them himself , as he formerly was . To write immorally and negligently , for the purpose of expressing contempt and defiance of the world , is not quite so pleasing as to write well and be praised for it ...
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... courses is embarrassed with its peculiar diffi- culties . If he adopt the former plan , he becomes an imitator ; and what was beauty in the model , is very apt to look like affectation in the copy . If , in order to escape from tameness ...
... courses is embarrassed with its peculiar diffi- culties . If he adopt the former plan , he becomes an imitator ; and what was beauty in the model , is very apt to look like affectation in the copy . If , in order to escape from tameness ...
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... course to be understood , that the different writers here mentioned have no merit , but to indicate the nature of their prevailing defects . This is also the age of the sentimental novel , in which young men and maidens , who in real ...
... course to be understood , that the different writers here mentioned have no merit , but to indicate the nature of their prevailing defects . This is also the age of the sentimental novel , in which young men and maidens , who in real ...
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Page 43 - I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his droop'd head sinks gradually low — And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower; and now The arena swims around him — he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hail'd the wretch who won.
Page 31 - The armaments which thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quake, And monarchs tremble in their capitals — The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war ; These are thy toys, and as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar.
Page 37 - The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece ! Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set.
Page 31 - His steps are not upon thy paths, — thy fields Are not a spoil for him, — thou dost arise And shake him from thee; the vile strength he wields For earth's destruction, thou dost all despise, Spurning him from thy bosom to the skies, And sendst him, shivering in thy playful spray, And howling to his gods, where haply lies His petty hope in some near port or bay, And dashest him again to earth; there let him lay.
Page 37 - Must w but weep o'er days more blest ? Must we but blush ? — Our fathers bled. Earth ! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead ! Of the three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylae.
Page 29 - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street: On with the dance! let joy be unconfined: No sleep till morn when youth and pleasure meet, To chase the glowing hours with flying feet. But hark that heavy sound breaks in once more, As if the clouds its echo would repeat And nearer, clearer, deadlier than before ! Arm! arm! it is — it is the cannon's opening roar!
Page 29 - There was a sound of revelry by night And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her beauty and her chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men ; A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell ; But hush ! hark ! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell.
Page 38 - You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet, Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone? Of two such lessons, why forget The nobler and the manlier one? You have the letters Cadmus gave, — Think ye he meant them for a slave?
Page 31 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes : By the deep sea, and music in its roar : I love not Man the less but nature more.
Page 32 - Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed — in breeze, or gale, or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime...