The Yale Literary Magazine, Volym 2Herrick & Noyes., 1836 |
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... Greece the records of her Demosthenes , her Pericles , her Socrates , and their equally distinguished cotemporaries , and you will have extinguished the lustre of her fame . Blot from the bright page of history , which tells us of Rome ...
... Greece the records of her Demosthenes , her Pericles , her Socrates , and their equally distinguished cotemporaries , and you will have extinguished the lustre of her fame . Blot from the bright page of history , which tells us of Rome ...
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... Greece and Rome kindle into a glow of more fervid eloquence , than in the cel- ebration of the praises of their ancestors , and extolling the feats of their valor ? And from what have those of our own nation borrowed more soul ...
... Greece and Rome kindle into a glow of more fervid eloquence , than in the cel- ebration of the praises of their ancestors , and extolling the feats of their valor ? And from what have those of our own nation borrowed more soul ...
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... Greece of a method of foretelling eclipses has been generally ascribed to Thales , and that which he predicted is said to have been the remarkable total obscuration of the sun , which put an end to a battle between the Medes and Lydi ...
... Greece of a method of foretelling eclipses has been generally ascribed to Thales , and that which he predicted is said to have been the remarkable total obscuration of the sun , which put an end to a battle between the Medes and Lydi ...
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... Greece in classic splendor shone , The light and glory of the mystic past ; And Rome's broad empire reared its golden throne- Of ancient realms the strongest and the last . These once rejoicing in their manly strength , Thought not that ...
... Greece in classic splendor shone , The light and glory of the mystic past ; And Rome's broad empire reared its golden throne- Of ancient realms the strongest and the last . These once rejoicing in their manly strength , Thought not that ...
Sida 106
... and instructed all who have shared its blessings . If Greece could at first listen only to the wandering bard , who , with a sweet prelude on his harp , sang his poem in her temples , if she could dandle on her knee only 106.
... and instructed all who have shared its blessings . If Greece could at first listen only to the wandering bard , who , with a sweet prelude on his harp , sang his poem in her temples , if she could dandle on her knee only 106.
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Sida 33 - A Dandy is a Clothes-wearing Man, a Man whose trade, office, and existence consists in the wearing of Clothes. Every faculty of his soul, spirit, purse, and person is heroically consecrated to this one object, the wearing of Clothes wisely and well : so that as others dress to live, he lives to dress.
Sida 120 - But now his nose is thin, And it rests upon his chin Like a staff, And a crook is in his back, And a melancholy crack In his laugh.
Sida 311 - Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since: their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts; — not so thou. Unchangeable save to thy wild waves
Sida 264 - O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.
Sida 123 - Certainly a man has a right to do what he likes with his own, but then every man who does so must make up his mind to certain little penalties.
Sida 282 - The passage of the Patowmac through the Blue ridge is perhaps one of the most stupendous scenes in nature. You stand on a very high point of land. On your right comes up the Shenandoah, having ranged along the foot of the mountain an hundred miles to seek a vent.
Sida 121 - He took the paper, and I watched, And saw him peep within ; At the first line he read, his face Was all upon the grin. He read the next ; the grin grew broad, And shot from ear to ear ; He read the third ; a chuckling noise I now began to hear. The fourth ; he broke into a roar ; • The fifth ; his waistband split ; The sixth ; he burst five buttons off, And tumbled in a fit. Ten days and nights, with sleepless eye, I watched that wretched man, And since, I never dare to write As funny as I can.
Sida 282 - But the distant finishing which nature has given to the picture is of a very different character. It is a true contrast to the fore-ground. It is as placid and delightful, as that is wild and tremendous.
Sida 121 - They were so queer, so very queer, I laughed as I would die ; Albeit, in the general way, A sober man am I. I called my servant, and he came ; How kind it was of him To mind a slender man like me, He of the mighty limb.
Sida 253 - Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world — though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst — the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!