The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 13Leavitt, Trow, & Company, 1848 - American literature |
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... Light from Electricity , 445 ; Sale of Landseer's Pictures , 493 ; The Glass of Bo- hemia , 524 ; The London Press , 566 ; Death of the elder Disraeli , 569 ; Chronology of European Sove- reigns , 570 ; The Extraordinary Fatality of the ...
... Light from Electricity , 445 ; Sale of Landseer's Pictures , 493 ; The Glass of Bo- hemia , 524 ; The London Press , 566 ; Death of the elder Disraeli , 569 ; Chronology of European Sove- reigns , 570 ; The Extraordinary Fatality of the ...
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... light of the odorous fire . * And round and round his right hand , And round and round his left , He wound the thread so fine . " to end made up . In one of Miss Edge- worth's works the forgery of a deed is de- tected by the over - zeal ...
... light of the odorous fire . * And round and round his right hand , And round and round his left , He wound the thread so fine . " to end made up . In one of Miss Edge- worth's works the forgery of a deed is de- tected by the over - zeal ...
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... light of government are lessened , it is fit that the torch of freedom ! " we should lessen the necessity for them . Before government is done away with , we must reform ourselves . " " In order to benefit yourselves and your country to ...
... light of government are lessened , it is fit that the torch of freedom ! " we should lessen the necessity for them . Before government is done away with , we must reform ourselves . " " In order to benefit yourselves and your country to ...
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... light of morning , the blue moon Low in the west , the clear and garish hills , The distinct valley and the vacant wood , Spread round him where he stood . Whither have fled The hues of heaven that canopied his bower The sounds that ...
... light of morning , the blue moon Low in the west , the clear and garish hills , The distinct valley and the vacant wood , Spread round him where he stood . Whither have fled The hues of heaven that canopied his bower The sounds that ...
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... light sive -- absolutely more offensive than the that lighteneth every man that comes into passages in Queen Mab , in which the lan- the world , " enabled him . It seems strange guage is of unmitigated scorn ; yet it how a boy educated ...
... light sive -- absolutely more offensive than the that lighteneth every man that comes into passages in Queen Mab , in which the lan- the world , " enabled him . It seems strange guage is of unmitigated scorn ; yet it how a boy educated ...
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Page 117 - And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every, tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food ; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
Page 285 - Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.
Page 21 - Midst others of less note, came one frail Form, A phantom among men; companionless As the last cloud of an expiring storm Whose thunder is its knell; he, as I guess, Had gazed on Nature's naked loveliness, Actaeon-like, and now he fled astray With feeble steps o'er the world's wilderness, And his own thoughts, along that rugged way, Pursued, like raging hounds, their father and their prey.
Page 100 - Truth may, perhaps, come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights.
Page 146 - THERE is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato has thought, he...
Page 20 - Prometheus is, as it were, the type of the highest perfection of moral and intellectual nature, impelled by the purest and the truest motives to the best and noblest ends.
Page 7 - Say, for you saw us, ye immortal lights, How oft unwearied have we spent the nights, Till the Ledaean stars, so famed for love, Wonder'd at us from above! We spent them not in toys, in lusts, or wine ; But search of deep Philosophy, Wit, Eloquence, and Poetry, Arts which I loved, for they, my friend, were thine.
Page 17 - A restless impulse urged him to embark And meet lone Death on the drear ocean's waste ; For well he knew that mighty Shadow loves The slimy caverns of the populous deep.
Page 146 - At home I dream that at Naples, at Rome, I can be intoxicated with beauty, and lose my sadness. I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. I seek the Vatican, and the palaces. I affect to be intoxicated with sights and suggestions, but I am not intoxicated My giant goes with me wherever I go.
Page 61 - The cause whereof is that the object of man's desire is not to enjoy once only, and for one instant of time, but to assure for ever the way of his future desire.