Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 27John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele Leavitt, Throw and Company, 1852 - American periodicals |
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... fact , that young Francis tary of Pitt for some time , and professed for reported several speeches delivered by Lord him , ever after , the highest veneration and Chatham in the House of Lords . Now , a gratitude , would begin a series ...
... fact , that young Francis tary of Pitt for some time , and professed for reported several speeches delivered by Lord him , ever after , the highest veneration and Chatham in the House of Lords . Now , a gratitude , would begin a series ...
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... fact that after a few epistles , it dies away into meaningless and sidelong allusions to " crutches , " and " lunatics , " and " the mise- rable understrappers of Lord Chatham . " and Mansfield decided in favor of the Pyn- | sister.
... fact that after a few epistles , it dies away into meaningless and sidelong allusions to " crutches , " and " lunatics , " and " the mise- rable understrappers of Lord Chatham . " and Mansfield decided in favor of the Pyn- | sister.
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... fact , the homage which fame and excellence provoke , and spring from the natural desire to possess , or be thought to possess , what the world has agreed to value highly but whilst gross pretensions may excite ridicule , and interested ...
... fact , the homage which fame and excellence provoke , and spring from the natural desire to possess , or be thought to possess , what the world has agreed to value highly but whilst gross pretensions may excite ridicule , and interested ...
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... fact that they suffered as leaders in an insurrection against a successful party in a pacified coun- try , there was , at first , little indication of in- tended severity against the remaining cap- tives . A vote passed the Lords for ...
... fact that they suffered as leaders in an insurrection against a successful party in a pacified coun- try , there was , at first , little indication of in- tended severity against the remaining cap- tives . A vote passed the Lords for ...
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... fact , that it had become the captive of despised enemies ; and the few National Guards , which had been most reluctantly called out in January by Napoleon ( for he disliked and mistrusted the institution ) , were sufficient to maintain ...
... fact , that it had become the captive of despised enemies ; and the few National Guards , which had been most reluctantly called out in January by Napoleon ( for he disliked and mistrusted the institution ) , were sufficient to maintain ...
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Page 160 - ONCE upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. " Tis some visitor," I muttered, " tapping at my chamber door — Only this, and nothing more.
Page 161 - This it is and nothing more." Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer, " Sir," said I, " or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore; But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping, And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure I heard you " — here I opened wide the door: — Darkness there and nothing more.
Page 160 - I remember it was in the bleak December, And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly I wished the morrow; vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow— sorrow for the lost Lenore, For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore: Nameless here for evermore.
Page 161 - Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter, In there stepped a stately Raven of the saintly days of yore. Not the least obeisance made he; not a...
Page 161 - For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being Ever yet was blessed with seeing bird above his chamber door, Bird or beast upon the sculptured bust above his chamber door, With such name as "Nevermore.
Page 162 - thing of evil - prophet still, if bird or devil! By that Heaven that bends above us - by that God we both adore Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore.
Page 157 - Where thy pale form was laid, with many tears, Nor in the embrace of ocean, shall exist Thy image. Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again, And, lost each human trace, surrendering up Thine individual being, shalt thou...
Page 157 - To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Page 95 - Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong, They learn in suffering what they teach in song.
Page 156 - In happy homes he saw the light Of household fires gleam warm and bright ; Above, the spectral glaciers shone, And from his lips escaped a groan, Excelsior! "Try not the Pass!