The South-western Monthly, Volume 1Wales & Roberts, 1852 |
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... earth rock ! Auguries were sought for really use and enjoy - how little even and found ; and men trembled at their of this single palace could they really interpretation . Yet here we stand up . Occupy ! To walk through here , royal- on ...
... earth rock ! Auguries were sought for really use and enjoy - how little even and found ; and men trembled at their of this single palace could they really interpretation . Yet here we stand up . Occupy ! To walk through here , royal- on ...
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... earth drinking the best blood of France on this accursed spot . The ancient obe- lisk stands on the very place occupied by the fatal instrument , and - as if it were conscious -- sympathising with the noble column , it seems to us a ...
... earth drinking the best blood of France on this accursed spot . The ancient obe- lisk stands on the very place occupied by the fatal instrument , and - as if it were conscious -- sympathising with the noble column , it seems to us a ...
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... Vesuvius or Etna , when its crater heaves , the earth may well shake - the bright region around put on desolation and ashes . LIFE ON THE PRAIRIES , AN ARKANSAS SCENE . Mounted 8 THE SOUTH - WESTERN MONTHLY . The Lantern at St Clond.
... Vesuvius or Etna , when its crater heaves , the earth may well shake - the bright region around put on desolation and ashes . LIFE ON THE PRAIRIES , AN ARKANSAS SCENE . Mounted 8 THE SOUTH - WESTERN MONTHLY . The Lantern at St Clond.
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... earth . And more , be to overcome all opposition - to mount side , and as if this was not enough to so high . vindicate the dignity of the Mechanic Arts , we have the most powerful po- tentates of the old world , the Czar and the Sultan ...
... earth . And more , be to overcome all opposition - to mount side , and as if this was not enough to so high . vindicate the dignity of the Mechanic Arts , we have the most powerful po- tentates of the old world , the Czar and the Sultan ...
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... earth , is that of late years , parents are begin more favored , naturally , in its agricul- ning to see the folly of forcing their tural resources than Tennessee . Yet children into professions for which they have no taste , and no ...
... earth , is that of late years , parents are begin more favored , naturally , in its agricul- ning to see the folly of forcing their tural resources than Tennessee . Yet children into professions for which they have no taste , and no ...
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Page 165 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Page 24 - That as the creative state of the eye increased, a sympathy seemed to arise between the waking and the dreaming states of the brain in one point— that whatsoever I happened to call up and to trace by a voluntary act upon the darkness was very apt to transfer itself to my dreams...
Page 177 - I attended to, while in this school; but there was one thing I could not do. I could not make a declamation. I could not speak before the school. The kind and excellent Buckminster sought, especially, to persuade me to perform the exercise of declamation, like other boys ; but I could not do...
Page 300 - And still upon that face I look, And think 'twill smile again; And still the thought I will not brook, That I must look in vain.
Page 353 - Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe. His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand, He walk'd with, to support uneasy steps Over the burning marie...
Page 353 - Thus Satan talking to his nearest mate With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed; his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood ; in bulk as huge As whom the fables name of monstrous size, Titanian, or Earth-born, that warr'd on Jove ; Briareos or Typhon, whom the den By ancient Tarsus held ; or that seabeast Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest that swim the ocean stream...
Page 98 - Of cither's garden; and together read Of him, the master of the desert isle, Till a low hut, a gun, and a canoe, Bounded their wishes. Or if ever came A thought of future days, 'twas but to say That they would share each other's lot, and do Wonders, no doubt. But this was vain: they parted With promises of long remembrance, words Whose kindness was the heart's, and those warm tears, Hidden like shame by the young eyes which shed them, But which are thought upon in after years As what we would give...
Page 358 - The black'ning trains o' craws to their repose : The toil-worn cotter frae his labour goes, This night his weekly moil is at an end, Collects his spades, his mattocks, and his hoes, Hoping the morn in ease and rest to spend, And weary o'er the moor, his course does hameward bend. At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree ; Th' expectant wee-things, toddlin, stacher through To meet their dad, wi' flichterin noise an
Page 353 - Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe. His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great admiral, were but a wand...
Page 37 - ... light of the sun darted into the cavern, and the Seven Sleepers were permitted to awake. After a slumber as they thought of a few hours, they were pressed by the calls of hunger ; and resolved that Jamblichus, one of their number, should secretly return to the city to purchase bread for the use of his companions. The youth, if we may still employ that appellation, could...