The South-western Monthly, Volume 1Wales & Roberts, 1852 |
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... standing on the stalk of corn , and the bow and quiver - primi- tive weapons - is intended to represent that point at which the country had ar- rived , when the white man first became acquainted with it - whilst the pioneer , armed with ...
... standing on the stalk of corn , and the bow and quiver - primi- tive weapons - is intended to represent that point at which the country had ar- rived , when the white man first became acquainted with it - whilst the pioneer , armed with ...
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... stands the table around which , in Na- " HALL OF THE THRONE , " the very in- poleon's time , gathered the statesmen ner ... stand up . Occupy ! To walk through here , royal- on the very spot whence one , the might- ty never appeared so ...
... stands the table around which , in Na- " HALL OF THE THRONE , " the very in- poleon's time , gathered the statesmen ner ... stand up . Occupy ! To walk through here , royal- on the very spot whence one , the might- ty never appeared so ...
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... stands at last ! And as if there were indeed spec- tral shadows - existences that haunt guilty spots , it seems a fearful thing , even now , to stand here beneath the faint light of the appearing stars , and hear the evening winds moan ...
... stands at last ! And as if there were indeed spec- tral shadows - existences that haunt guilty spots , it seems a fearful thing , even now , to stand here beneath the faint light of the appearing stars , and hear the evening winds moan ...
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... stands at bay , hav- ing taught his fellow canines discre- tion , his hair all turned the wrong way , his red eyes flashing fire , and his bloody jaws snapping like a steel - trap in spasms , as he turns right and left to give battle to ...
... stands at bay , hav- ing taught his fellow canines discre- tion , his hair all turned the wrong way , his red eyes flashing fire , and his bloody jaws snapping like a steel - trap in spasms , as he turns right and left to give battle to ...
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... standing aside of the merely speculative , to make way for the useful and the substantial ; and wan dering around amongst the hard hand- ed men who proudly held up the re- sults of their labor and ingenuity to the view of the assembled ...
... standing aside of the merely speculative , to make way for the useful and the substantial ; and wan dering around amongst the hard hand- ed men who proudly held up the re- sults of their labor and ingenuity to the view of the assembled ...
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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...