The American Whig Review, Volume 2Wiley and Putnam, 1845 - Periodicals |
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... appear- ance . It was supposed to have been brought from the East in some Genoese vessel , when that state was famed for her maritime enterprise , and had ships in all parts of the world . It might , indeed , have come from any region ...
... appear- ance . It was supposed to have been brought from the East in some Genoese vessel , when that state was famed for her maritime enterprise , and had ships in all parts of the world . It might , indeed , have come from any region ...
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... appear in distinct execution . But the triumph of the work is in the face of the Redeemer . The characteristics there presented can never be once seen and for- gotten ; and with prolonged study they appear the more remarkable . The ...
... appear in distinct execution . But the triumph of the work is in the face of the Redeemer . The characteristics there presented can never be once seen and for- gotten ; and with prolonged study they appear the more remarkable . The ...
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... appear- ed with glistening bayonets and waving plumes , from the borders of Dalmatia . Like an exhaustless stream , the magnifi- cent columns kept pouring into that little isle , while to crown the whole , Eugene came up with his ...
... appear- ed with glistening bayonets and waving plumes , from the borders of Dalmatia . Like an exhaustless stream , the magnifi- cent columns kept pouring into that little isle , while to crown the whole , Eugene came up with his ...
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... appear with his fifty thousand brave followers . For a whole hour he thus rode in front of his men , and though they expected every moment to see him shattered by a cannon ball , he moved unscathed amid the storm . At length Davoust was ...
... appear with his fifty thousand brave followers . For a whole hour he thus rode in front of his men , and though they expected every moment to see him shattered by a cannon ball , he moved unscathed amid the storm . At length Davoust was ...
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... appear , War's giant Charioteer ! — And where the conflict reels , Urge through the swaying lines his crashing wheels : Or pause to list amid the horrent shades , The deep , hoarse cry of Battle's thirsty blades , Led by the wailing ...
... appear , War's giant Charioteer ! — And where the conflict reels , Urge through the swaying lines his crashing wheels : Or pause to list amid the horrent shades , The deep , hoarse cry of Battle's thirsty blades , Led by the wailing ...
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Page 36 - There lies the port: the vessel puffs her sail: There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners, Souls that have toil'd, and wrought, and thought with me — That ever with a frolic welcome took The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed Free hearts, free foreheads — you and I are old; Old age hath yet his...
Page 36 - In offices of tenderness, and pay Meet adoration to my household gods, When I am gone. He works his work, I mine. There lies the port; the vessel puffs her sail: There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners...
Page 323 - Who made you glorious as the gates of Heaven Beneath the keen full moon? Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows? Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet? God! — let the torrents, like a shout of nations, Answer! and let the ice-plains echo, God!
Page 36 - We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven ; that which we are, we are ; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Page 35 - I am a part of all that I have met ; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro' Gleams that untravell'd world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move.
Page 200 - In this situation of this assembly, groping as it were in the dark to find political truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how has it happened, sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of lights to illuminate our understandings?
Page 171 - But, look, the morn, in russet mantle clad, Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastern hill...
Page 35 - ULYSSES. IT little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. I cannot rest from travel; I will drink Life to the lees: all times I have enjoy'd Greatly, have suffer'd greatly , both with those That loved me, and alone; on shore, and when Thro...
Page 323 - Of Nature's womb, that in quaternion run Perpetual circle, multiform, and mix And nourish all things ; let your ceaseless change Vary to our great Maker still new praise.
Page 378 - Come one, come all ! this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I.