The Southern literary messenger, Volume 131847 |
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... seen it summarily accounted for by the fact , that the gen- tlemen and higher classes of Virginia are so much VOL . XIII - 1 occupied with the duties of self - government and of governing others , that they have no time to spend over ...
... seen it summarily accounted for by the fact , that the gen- tlemen and higher classes of Virginia are so much VOL . XIII - 1 occupied with the duties of self - government and of governing others , that they have no time to spend over ...
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... seen nothing in her husband that one less pure- her he was ever kind , and his heart often smote hearted than herself would have condemned , yet him when he saw her beauty fading beneath the coming events , casting their shadows before ...
... seen nothing in her husband that one less pure- her he was ever kind , and his heart often smote hearted than herself would have condemned , yet him when he saw her beauty fading beneath the coming events , casting their shadows before ...
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... seen from the point , save the sea - washed rocks and the troubled waters , yet the eye lingered with a peculiar feeling of interest on a view lacking all variety of objects , yet ever restless and varying in itself . Beside a small ...
... seen from the point , save the sea - washed rocks and the troubled waters , yet the eye lingered with a peculiar feeling of interest on a view lacking all variety of objects , yet ever restless and varying in itself . Beside a small ...
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... seen any one on whom the mantle of expe- was already stirring within , and he resolved in his rience had fallen in folds so graceful . It is a rare heart to regain the mastery of that place , even if talent to grow old happily , and to ...
... seen any one on whom the mantle of expe- was already stirring within , and he resolved in his rience had fallen in folds so graceful . It is a rare heart to regain the mastery of that place , even if talent to grow old happily , and to ...
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... seen them for a whole year , and if you would exert " I have seen them a thousand times - I do not prize common things as you do , " and then , half ashamed of her petulant manner , the young lady arose and sauntered to the window . The ...
... seen them for a whole year , and if you would exert " I have seen them a thousand times - I do not prize common things as you do , " and then , half ashamed of her petulant manner , the young lady arose and sauntered to the window . The ...
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Page 298 - A made a finer end, and went away an it had been any christom child. A parted even just between twelve and one, even at the turning o' the tide. For after I saw him fumble with the sheets, and play with flowers, and smile upon his fingers...
Page 415 - BY THE rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
Page 161 - I care not, fortune, what you me deny : You cannot rob me of free nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face ; You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, And I their toys to the great children leave : Of fancy, reason, virtue, nought can me bereave.
Page 160 - But midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, And roam along, the world's tired denizen, With none who bless us, none whom we can bless; Minions of splendour shrinking from distress!
Page 64 - Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings ; he shall not stand before mean men...
Page 407 - Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.
Page 202 - I that was wont to behold her riding like Alexander, hunting like Diana, walking like Venus, the gentle wind blowing her fair hair about her pure cheeks, like a nymph; sometime sitting in the shade like a Goddess; sometime singing like an angel; sometime playing like Orpheus. Behold the sorrow of this world! Once amiss, hath bereaved me of all.
Page 64 - There's freedom at thy gates and rest For Earth's down-trodden and opprest, A shelter for the hunted head, For the starved laborer toil and bread. Power, at thy bounds, Stops and calls back his baffled hounds.
Page 161 - And through their lucid veil his softened force Shed o'er the peaceful world. Then is the time For those whom wisdom and whom nature charm To steal themselves from the degenerate crowd, And soar above this little scene of things ; To tread low-thoughted vice beneath their feet, To soothe the throbbing passions into peace, And woo lone quiet in her silent walks.
Page 64 - Ay, let them rail, those haughty ones. While safe thou dwellest with thy sons, They do not know how loved thou art, How many a fond and fearless heart Would rise to throw Its life between thee and the foe.