American Quarterly Review, Volume 20Robert Walsh Carey, Lea & Carey, 1836 - American essays |
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... importance to the United States in a commercial view , is full of interest as a subject of philosophical speculation ... important group of the intertropical islands is properly an American dis- covery ; we mean the group originally ...
... importance to the United States in a commercial view , is full of interest as a subject of philosophical speculation ... important group of the intertropical islands is properly an American dis- covery ; we mean the group originally ...
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... importance to the United States in many respects . This group of islands , now the most import- ant of all in relation to the civilized world , has long been known as a place of resort for American whaling ships ; and , until the ...
... importance to the United States in many respects . This group of islands , now the most import- ant of all in relation to the civilized world , has long been known as a place of resort for American whaling ships ; and , until the ...
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... important peo- ple of the eastern archipelago . His History of Sumatra , already mentioned , has been translated ... importance is attached to this part of the globe in our ordinary geographical studies , that few readers ac- quire any ...
... important peo- ple of the eastern archipelago . His History of Sumatra , already mentioned , has been translated ... importance is attached to this part of the globe in our ordinary geographical studies , that few readers ac- quire any ...
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... important information is withheld from scientific readers , in or- der to make a book cheap enough to suit the general market . If , how- ever , we have not national pride enough to encourage good editions of valuable works , we cannot ...
... important information is withheld from scientific readers , in or- der to make a book cheap enough to suit the general market . If , how- ever , we have not national pride enough to encourage good editions of valuable works , we cannot ...
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... important in every point of view , is the race , or rather races of men , in- habiting the different portions of the Oceanic territory . And , when we are reminded of the fact , that this region is peopled by not less than fifteen , or ...
... important in every point of view , is the race , or rather races of men , in- habiting the different portions of the Oceanic territory . And , when we are reminded of the fact , that this region is peopled by not less than fifteen , or ...
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Page 85 - Heaven lies about us in our infancy. Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing boy; But he beholds the light and whence it flows, He sees it in his joy. The youth who daily farther from the East Must travel, still is Nature's priest, And, by the vision splendid, Is on his way attended. At length the man perceives it die away And fade into the light of common day.
Page 508 - No man was ever yet a great poet without being at the same time a profound philosopher. For poetry is the blossom and the fragrancy of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
Page 70 - And peace proclaims olives of endless age. Now with the drops of this most balmy time My love looks fresh, and Death to me subscribes, Since, spite of him, I'll live in this poor rhyme, While he insults o'er dull and speechless tribes: And thou in this shall find thy monument, When tyrants' crests and tombs of brass are spent.
Page 508 - If the labours of Men of science should ever create any material revolution, direct or indirect, in our condition, and in the impressions which we habitually receive, the Poet will sleep then no more than at present; he will be ready to follow the steps of the Man of science, not only in those general indirect effects, but he will be at his side, carrying sensation into the midst of the objects of the science itself.
Page 84 - Tis Nature's law That none, the meanest of created things, Of forms created the most vile and brute, The dullest or most noxious, should exist Divorced from good, a spirit and pulse of good, A life and soul, to every mode of being Inseparably linked.
Page 505 - Therefore all seasons shall be sweet to thee, Whether the summer clothe the general earth With greenness, or the redbreast sit and sing Betwixt the tufts of snow on the bare branch Of mossy apple-tree, while the nigh thatch Smokes in the sun-thaw; whether the eave-drops fall, Heard only in the trances of the blast, Or if the secret ministry of frost Shall hang them up in silent icicles, Quietly shining to the quiet Moon.
Page 508 - The remotest discoveries of the Chemist, the Botanist, or Mineralogist, will be as proper objects of the Poet's art as any upon which it can be employed...
Page 79 - I AM not One who much or oft delight To season my fireside with personal talk, — Of friends, who live within an easy walk, Or neighbours, daily, weekly, in my sight : And, for my chance-acquaintance, ladies bright, Sons, mothers, maidens withering on the stalk, These all wear out of me, like Forms, with chalk Painted on rich men's floors, for one feast-night. Better than such discourse doth silence long, Long, barren silence...
Page 274 - Styx nine times round them,' 6 my ideas float on winged words, and as they expand their plumes, catch the golden light of other years. My soul has indeed remained in its original bondage, dark, obscure, with longings infinite and unsatisfied; my heart, shut...