The United States Magazine and Democratic Review, Volume 15Langtree and O'Sullivan, 1844 - United States |
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... means of influence and combination against those which they believed to be active on the other side -so as to secure ... mean its expression of the feeling of the popular heart and the just judgment of the popular mind -- the lau- rel of ...
... means of influence and combination against those which they believed to be active on the other side -so as to secure ... mean its expression of the feeling of the popular heart and the just judgment of the popular mind -- the lau- rel of ...
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... means - in advance of the arrival of the period when it must yield to the silent operation of the pressure of population , in this as in all other countries where it has existed — is a problem which we do not here feel called upon to ...
... means - in advance of the arrival of the period when it must yield to the silent operation of the pressure of population , in this as in all other countries where it has existed — is a problem which we do not here feel called upon to ...
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... mean- ders of a stream , or glimmering among the wind - stirred boughs of a wood , and had garnered it in one ... means and opportunities of joy are neglected in the lower world , had been carefully gathered up , and deposited in ...
... mean- ders of a stream , or glimmering among the wind - stirred boughs of a wood , and had garnered it in one ... means and opportunities of joy are neglected in the lower world , had been carefully gathered up , and deposited in ...
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... means of the same order of mind , and belongs , in fact , to a much lower grade : neither is the author of the Ingoldsby Legends , nor , at least , one - half the names that might be mentioned , entitled to such a standing and ...
... means of the same order of mind , and belongs , in fact , to a much lower grade : neither is the author of the Ingoldsby Legends , nor , at least , one - half the names that might be mentioned , entitled to such a standing and ...
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... means attempt to re - write the separate portraits , nor hope to comprise , in a few pages , a general view of contem- porary English literature ; we will only endeavor to depict the striking features of a few of the leading men of the ...
... means attempt to re - write the separate portraits , nor hope to comprise , in a few pages , a general view of contem- porary English literature ; we will only endeavor to depict the striking features of a few of the leading men of the ...
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Page 194 - States, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and do all other acts and things which independent States may of right do.
Page 364 - THAT AND A' THAT" Is there, for honest Poverty, That hangs his head, and a' that! The coward slave, we pass him by, We dare be poor for a
Page 29 - They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the devil's child, I will live then from the devil.' No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is •what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it.
Page 30 - Then sawest thou that this fair universe, were it in the meanest province thereof, is in very deed the Stardomed City of God ; that through every star, through every grass-blade, and most through every living soul, the glory of a present God still beams.
Page 28 - It is only as a man puts off all foreign support, and stands alone, that I see him to be strong and to prevail. He is weaker by every recruit to his banner. Is not a man better than a town? Ask nothing of men, and in the endless mutation, thou only firm column must presently appear the upholder of all that surrounds thee.
Page 549 - Giovanni had half-hoped, half-feared, would be the case, — a figure appeared beneath the antique sculptured portal, and came down between the rows of plants, inhaling their various perfumes, as if she were one of those beings of old classic fable, that lived upon sweet odors. On again beholding Beatrice, the young man was even startled to perceive how much her beauty exceeded his recollection of it; so brilliant, so vivid was its character, that she glowed amid the sunlight, and, as Giovanni whispered...
Page 364 - I mourned with thousands, but as one More deeply grieved, for he was gone Whose light I hailed when first it shone, And showed my youth How verse may build a princely throne On humble truth.
Page 249 - WHAT are we set on earth for ? Say, to toil — Nor seek to leave thy tending of the vines, For all the heat o' the day, till it declines, And death's mild curfew shall from work assoil. God did anoint thee with his odorous oil, To wrestle, not to reign ; and He assigns All thy tears over, like pure crystallines, For younger fellow-workers of the soil To wear for amulets.
Page 548 - He kept the young man to dinner, and made himself very agreeable by the freedom and liveliness of his conversation, especially when warmed by a flask or two of Tuscan wine. Giovanni, conceiving that men of science, inhabitants of the same city, must needs be on familiar terms with one another, took an opportunity to mention the name of Dr. Rappaccini. But the professor did not respond with so much cordiality as he had anticipated. "Ill would it become a teacher of the divine art of medicine...
Page 29 - Meek young men grow up in libraries believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries when they wrote these books.