Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art, and Fashion, Volume 37G.R. Graham., 1850 |
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... wishes to get what he is pleased to call a living by preying on his neighbors . They neither expose nor reform wickedness , but simply toss words at it . for a consideration . Yet from such moral machines it is supposed that , in the ...
... wishes to get what he is pleased to call a living by preying on his neighbors . They neither expose nor reform wickedness , but simply toss words at it . for a consideration . Yet from such moral machines it is supposed that , in the ...
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... wishes encircled her bosom , And Pride swept the halls of her heart . And once , when o'ermastered by anger , Her golden - haired boy sought her side , In her fury she smote down her first born , And he fell like a lily and died . There ...
... wishes encircled her bosom , And Pride swept the halls of her heart . And once , when o'ermastered by anger , Her golden - haired boy sought her side , In her fury she smote down her first born , And he fell like a lily and died . There ...
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... wish you to perform - and be awake , sir , about it ! And you may , perhaps , get off easier for your own dereliction afterward - for your conduct shall not remain un- punished , " answered the captain . 66 Captain Andrews , boy and man ...
... wish you to perform - and be awake , sir , about it ! And you may , perhaps , get off easier for your own dereliction afterward - for your conduct shall not remain un- punished , " answered the captain . 66 Captain Andrews , boy and man ...
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... wish from you nothing more than you promised in the shipping articles ! " ances . At this call , the eyes of the men were all turned toward Wilson , the boatswain , who , seeing it was expected from him , stepped out to act as spokesman ...
... wish from you nothing more than you promised in the shipping articles ! " ances . At this call , the eyes of the men were all turned toward Wilson , the boatswain , who , seeing it was expected from him , stepped out to act as spokesman ...
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... wish that he might find a partner - a princess equal to him , who would make it the study of her life , with all the obedience of a wife , to please him . For her own part , she would be content to live and be their humblest handmaid ...
... wish that he might find a partner - a princess equal to him , who would make it the study of her life , with all the obedience of a wife , to please him . For her own part , she would be content to live and be their humblest handmaid ...
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Page 115 - Hence in a season of calm weather Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.
Page 194 - Ring out old shapes of foul disease; Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace. Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand; Ring out the darkness of the land, Ring in the Christ that is to be.
Page 115 - Two voices are there ; one is of the sea, One of the mountains ; each a mighty voice : In both from age to age thou didst rejoice, They were thy chosen music, Liberty ! There came a tyrant, and with holy glee Thou fought'st against him ; but hast vainly striven : Thou from thy Alpine holds at length art driven, Where not a torrent murmurs heard by thee. Of one deep bliss thine...
Page 114 - And hers shall be the breathing balm, And hers the silence and the calm Of mute insensate things.
Page 110 - ... of the meadows and the woods And mountains; and of all that we behold From this green earth; of all the mighty world Of eye and ear, both what they half create, And what perceive; well pleased to recognize In nature and the language of the sense, The anchor of my purest thoughts, the nurse, The guide, the guardian of my heart, and soul Of all my moral being.
Page 109 - That time is past, And all its aching joys are now no more, And all its dizzy raptures. Not for this Faint I, nor mourn nor murmur; other gifts Have followed; for such loss, I would believe, Abundant recompense.
Page 109 - Through a long absence, have not been to me As is a landscape to a blind man's eye: But oft, in lonely rooms, and 'mid the din Of towns and cities, I have owed to them In hours of weariness, sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart; And passing even into my purer mind, With tranquil restoration...
Page 109 - One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.
Page 114 - The wind, the tempest roaring high, The tumult of a tropic sky, Might well be dangerous food For him, a youth to whom was given So much of earth, so much of heaven, And such impetuous blood.
Page 4 - But as young men, when they knit and shape perfectly, do seldom grow to a further stature ; so knowledge, while it is in aphorisms and observations, it is in growth ; but when it once is comprehended in exact methods, it may perchance be further polished and illustrated, and accommodated for use and practice ; but it increaseth no more in bulk and substance.