The New-England Magazine, Volume 1Joseph Tinker Buckingham, Edwin Buckingham, Samuel Gridley Howe, John Osborne Sargent, Park Benjamin J. T. and E. Buckingham, 1831 - American literature |
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... honor the elegant to the serviceable ; extolling as divine the efforts of the sculptor , and crown- ing the name of the painter with the immortality that is denied to his performances ; while it has made little account of its most valu ...
... honor the elegant to the serviceable ; extolling as divine the efforts of the sculptor , and crown- ing the name of the painter with the immortality that is denied to his performances ; while it has made little account of its most valu ...
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... honor . There was little , indeed , to encourage among them the opposite descriptions of industry , since they carried on so inconside- rable a trade with their neighbors . Those branches can never be extensively cultivated without the ...
... honor . There was little , indeed , to encourage among them the opposite descriptions of industry , since they carried on so inconside- rable a trade with their neighbors . Those branches can never be extensively cultivated without the ...
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... honor gives him no elevation ; and when he presents himself on Olympus , Homer tells us who seems to have the best ... honors of the public defence to others who were more favored , they remained in the condition of a sunken and ...
... honor gives him no elevation ; and when he presents himself on Olympus , Homer tells us who seems to have the best ... honors of the public defence to others who were more favored , they remained in the condition of a sunken and ...
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... honor on the mother , who had reared them . In the disputes , that often arose in those unsettled days be- tween arbitrary power and the general weal , between the exclusive pretensions of a few and the dearest rights of the community ...
... honor on the mother , who had reared them . In the disputes , that often arose in those unsettled days be- tween arbitrary power and the general weal , between the exclusive pretensions of a few and the dearest rights of the community ...
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... honored employments , and upon the other side of the beam the mechanical arts , and you will find that their several values have not been justly apportioned . You will find that we have praised more those , who are trying to persuade us ...
... honored employments , and upon the other side of the beam the mechanical arts , and you will find that their several values have not been justly apportioned . You will find that we have praised more those , who are trying to persuade us ...
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Page 203 - I have neither the scholar's melancholy, which is emulation ; nor the musician's, which is fantastical ; nor the courtier's, which is proud ; nor the soldier's, which is ambitious ; nor the lawyer's, which is politic ; nor the lady's, which is nice ; nor the lover's, which is all these...
Page 117 - To its idolatries a patient knee, Nor coin'd my cheek to smiles, nor cried aloud In worship of an echo; in the crowd They could not deem me one of such; I stood Among them, but not of them; in a shroud Of thoughts which were not their thoughts and still could, Had I not filed my mind, which thus itself subdued.
Page 103 - As when from mountain-tops the dusky clouds Ascending, while the north wind sleeps, o'erspread Heaven's cheerful face, the louring element Scowls o'er the darkened landskip snow, or shower ; If chance the radiant sun with farewell sweet Extend his evening beam, the fields revive, ' The birds their notes renew, and bleating herds Attest their joy, that hill and valley rings.
Page 398 - SHE walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes : Thus mellowed to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
Page 353 - That he hung on its margin, far and near, Where a rock could rear its head. He went to the windows of those who slept, And over each pane, like a fairy, crept; Wherever he breathed, wherever he...
Page 300 - We will proceed no further in this business. He hath honour'd me of late; and I have bought Golden opinions from all sorts of people, Which would be worn now in their newest gloss, Not cast aside so soon.
Page 383 - Salamis ! Their azure arches, through the long expanse, More deeply purpled meet his mellowing glance, And tenderest tints along their summits driven Mark his gay course, and own the hues of Heaven ; Till darkly shaded from the land, and deep, Behind his Delphian cliff he sinks to sleep.
Page 299 - tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly; if the assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch With his surcease success : that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here, But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, We'd jump the life to come.
Page 400 - One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good Than all the sages can.
Page 7 - That all children within this province, of the age of twelve years, shall be taught some useful trade or skill, to the end none may be idle; but the poor may work to live and the rich, if they become poor, may not want.