The American Whig Review, Volume 2Wiley and Putnam, 1845 - Periodicals |
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... expression had left the divine form -- an ideal we do not remember ever to have seen represented . The first great impres- sion emanates to the beholder from the entire appearance of the frame , as it hangs upon the cross , distended ...
... expression had left the divine form -- an ideal we do not remember ever to have seen represented . The first great impres- sion emanates to the beholder from the entire appearance of the frame , as it hangs upon the cross , distended ...
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... expression of calmness and dignity about it , which I conceive to be quite characteristic of our Saviour , and which I have never seen before in any similar work . The form is full and manly , and the execution is quite beautiful . I ...
... expression of calmness and dignity about it , which I conceive to be quite characteristic of our Saviour , and which I have never seen before in any similar work . The form is full and manly , and the execution is quite beautiful . I ...
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... expressing his indignation against meanness and injus- tice . His words which were uttered without disguise , and ... expression , strict- Îy true , and springing from the very ex- cellences of that character which made him the prop ...
... expressing his indignation against meanness and injus- tice . His words which were uttered without disguise , and ... expression , strict- Îy true , and springing from the very ex- cellences of that character which made him the prop ...
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... expression , and continual glimpses are given of lofty truths ; but the calm sur- vey of the whole domain of thought and imagination , the fine sagacity which dis- poses things according to their natural order , are generally wanting ...
... expression , and continual glimpses are given of lofty truths ; but the calm sur- vey of the whole domain of thought and imagination , the fine sagacity which dis- poses things according to their natural order , are generally wanting ...
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... expression which acts powerful- ly on the sensibility , though they only exhibit the diseased phase of Shelley's philanthropy : ENGLAND IN 1819 . " An old , blind , mad , despised and dying king , Princes , the dregs of their dull race ...
... expression which acts powerful- ly on the sensibility , though they only exhibit the diseased phase of Shelley's philanthropy : ENGLAND IN 1819 . " An old , blind , mad , despised and dying king , Princes , the dregs of their dull race ...
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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.