The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 46Leavitt, Trow, & Company, 1887 - American literature |
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... doubt a master of paint- ing could be found who would quickly supply the technical term of anything I liked to show him ; but again no use , because it would be technical . still more insurmountable difficulty oc- curs in so far as I ...
... doubt a master of paint- ing could be found who would quickly supply the technical term of anything I liked to show him ; but again no use , because it would be technical . still more insurmountable difficulty oc- curs in so far as I ...
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... doubt ; their thinking is chiefly a mode of they are rarely generous in their opinions or in their judgments . They persuade rather than convince , and value belief as a source of con- solation rather than as a faithful expression of ...
... doubt ; their thinking is chiefly a mode of they are rarely generous in their opinions or in their judgments . They persuade rather than convince , and value belief as a source of con- solation rather than as a faithful expression of ...
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... doubt that the feminine type is fully equal to the mas- culine , if indeed it be not superior . For I believe that if we all go back in our memories to seek for the highest ex- perience we have severally had in this respect , the ...
... doubt that the feminine type is fully equal to the mas- culine , if indeed it be not superior . For I believe that if we all go back in our memories to seek for the highest ex- perience we have severally had in this respect , the ...
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... doubt , if the truth were known , you may have ex- perienced something that you found it hard to account for . Ah ! does that touch you ? ' ' I suppose I changed color during the latter part of his remarks . How justly he spoke I knew ...
... doubt , if the truth were known , you may have ex- perienced something that you found it hard to account for . Ah ! does that touch you ? ' ' I suppose I changed color during the latter part of his remarks . How justly he spoke I knew ...
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... doubt whether the Captain could be wilfully and recklessly lying in the ac- count which he gave of the affray -- I allude to the terror and horror which he manifested when he recognized me after- ward in Miss Macleod's drawing - room ...
... doubt whether the Captain could be wilfully and recklessly lying in the ac- count which he gave of the affray -- I allude to the terror and horror which he manifested when he recognized me after- ward in Miss Macleod's drawing - room ...
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Page 152 - Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before, But vaster.
Page 152 - God, That God, which ever lives and loves, One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event, To which the whole creation moves.
Page 223 - All things that love the sun are out of doors; The sky rejoices in the morning's birth; The grass is bright with rain-drops; — on the moors The hare is running races in her mirth; And with her feet she from the plashy earth Raises a mist; that, glittering in the sun, Runs with her all the way, wherever she doth run.
Page 302 - Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious lifeblood of a master-spirit embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Page 225 - The silver, snarling trumpets 'gan to chide: The level chambers, ready with their pride, Were glowing to receive a thousand guests: The carved angels, ever eager-eyed, Stared where upon their heads the cornice rests, With hair blown back, and wings put cross-wise on their breasts.
Page 322 - O God, Thou art my' God; early will I seek Thee: My soul thirsteth for Thee, my flesh longeth for Thee In a dry and thirsty land, where no water is ; To see Thy power and Thy glory, So as I have seen Thee in the sanctuary.
Page 406 - And it came to pass at noon that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud, for he is a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked. And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them.
Page 152 - Nor thro' the questions men may try, The petty cobwebs we have spun : If e'er when faith had fall'n asleep, I heard a voice, "Believe no more," And heard an ever-breaking shore That tumbled in the godless deep; A warmth within the breast would melt The freezing reason's colder part, And like a man in wrath the heart Stood up and answer'd, "I have felt.
Page 70 - In the youth of a state, arms do flourish; in the middle age of a state, learning; and then both of them together for a time; in the declining age of a state, mechanical arts and merchandise.
Page 146 - Who could resist the charm of that spiritual apparition, gliding in the dim afternoon light through the aisles of St Mary's, rising into the pulpit, and then, in the most entrancing of voices, breaking the silence with words and thoughts which were a religious music - subtle, sweet, mournful?