American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 37Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew 1851 |
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... leave it . Here are real sublimities : none of the stale elves and fairies and demons of the Hartz- SAINT LEGER ( interrupting ) . — I am sick of the very names of Hartz and of elves , and fairies , and demons , and Walpurgis nights ...
... leave it . Here are real sublimities : none of the stale elves and fairies and demons of the Hartz- SAINT LEGER ( interrupting ) . — I am sick of the very names of Hartz and of elves , and fairies , and demons , and Walpurgis nights ...
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... leave the sentence unfinished . ' MY AIN SWEET JEAN . BY JAMES LINEN . I WAD NA gi'e my ain sweet JEAN For a ' the wives I yet hae seen ; It's no her looks , it's no her air , That mak's her seem to me sae fair ; It's no her form o ...
... leave the sentence unfinished . ' MY AIN SWEET JEAN . BY JAMES LINEN . I WAD NA gi'e my ain sweet JEAN For a ' the wives I yet hae seen ; It's no her looks , it's no her air , That mak's her seem to me sae fair ; It's no her form o ...
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... leave , and Jefferson , Uncle Ben , and Fulton followed . ' But , ' said Jefferson , ' I have a word to say on my ... LEAVING THE COUNTRY : A DRAMATIC SKETCH . BY PARK 18 [ January , Stanzas : The Music of Nature .
... leave , and Jefferson , Uncle Ben , and Fulton followed . ' But , ' said Jefferson , ' I have a word to say on my ... LEAVING THE COUNTRY : A DRAMATIC SKETCH . BY PARK 18 [ January , Stanzas : The Music of Nature .
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... LEAVING THE COUNTRY : A DRAMATIC SKETCH . BY PARK BENJAMIN . EDITH . HERE on this bank , by this slow - gliding brook ... leave the dusty paths Of the built city , the continual din , The jar , the tumult , the oppressive crowd , And ...
... LEAVING THE COUNTRY : A DRAMATIC SKETCH . BY PARK BENJAMIN . EDITH . HERE on this bank , by this slow - gliding brook ... leave the dusty paths Of the built city , the continual din , The jar , the tumult , the oppressive crowd , And ...
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... leave our noble deeds undone . EDITH . — I thank thee , ADRIEN , and with joy prepare To follow where thou leadest ... Leaving the Country : a Dramatic Sketch .
... leave our noble deeds undone . EDITH . — I thank thee , ADRIEN , and with joy prepare To follow where thou leadest ... Leaving the Country : a Dramatic Sketch .
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Page 315 - TRAVEL in the younger sort is a part of education ; in the elder a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.
Page 120 - AY, tear her tattered ensign down ! Long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky; Beneath it rung the battle shout, And burst the cannon's roar; — The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more. Her deck once red with heroes...
Page 120 - Her deck, once red with heroes' blood, Where knelt the vanquished foe, When winds were hurrying o'er the flood, And waves were white below, No more shall feel the victor's tread, Or know the conquered knee; — The harpies of the shore shall pluck The eagle of the sea ! Oh, better that her shattered hulk Should sink beneath the wave ; Her thunders shook the mighty deep.
Page 458 - Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites ! for ye pay tithe of mint, and anise, and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith : these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
Page 243 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, When deep sleep falleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, Which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face; The hair of my flesh stood up : It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: An image was before mine eyes, There was silence, and I heard a voice, saying, Shall mortal man be more just than God?
Page 478 - Where the bee sucks, there suck I ; In a cowslip's bell I lie : There I couch*. When owls do cry, '} \ On the bat's back I do fly, After summer, merrily : Merrily, merrily, shall I live now, Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
Page 229 - For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the Truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. He that despised Moses...
Page 395 - The point of view in which this tale comes under the Romantic definition lies in the attempt to connect a bygone time with the very present that is flitting away from us.
Page 272 - The myrrh sweet-bleeding in the bitter wound ; The warlike beech ; the ash for nothing ill; The fruitful olive • and the platane round ; The carver holme; the maple seldom inward sound.
Page 458 - There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor. The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds : but the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up: and it grew up together with him, and with his children ; it did eat of his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom and was unto him as a daughter.