The Essayist: A Young Men's Magazine, Volume 1George Washington Light G.W. Light & Company, 1833 |
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... bright eyes and poison , love , murder and witchcraft . At the same time , we have no doubt that fiction may some- times be advantageously made the medium of sound ob- servations upon men and manners , and especially of whole- some ...
... bright eyes and poison , love , murder and witchcraft . At the same time , we have no doubt that fiction may some- times be advantageously made the medium of sound ob- servations upon men and manners , and especially of whole- some ...
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... bright eyes shall greet him With the joy of bursting tears ; And faded cheeks shall bloom again , Paled with the grief of years . And so , Hope's lofty light , From the unseen stormy beach , Over wind and wave , far out , Its trembling ...
... bright eyes shall greet him With the joy of bursting tears ; And faded cheeks shall bloom again , Paled with the grief of years . And so , Hope's lofty light , From the unseen stormy beach , Over wind and wave , far out , Its trembling ...
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... bright glance the sun - light streaming First gave Columbia's stars to shine , Then colored France's rainbow sign , And now o'er half the world is beaming . CHORUS . March on , march on , ye brave , To triumph or to fall : March on ...
... bright glance the sun - light streaming First gave Columbia's stars to shine , Then colored France's rainbow sign , And now o'er half the world is beaming . CHORUS . March on , march on , ye brave , To triumph or to fall : March on ...
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... bright , and dance harmonious through the sky . ' The incoherency of these two , not to point out the absurdity of each or either , alone , is too palpable for remark . You do not find a medley of this character throughout the entire ...
... bright , and dance harmonious through the sky . ' The incoherency of these two , not to point out the absurdity of each or either , alone , is too palpable for remark . You do not find a medley of this character throughout the entire ...
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... bright beams , With gold and crimson light ; Stars rise and set together in the sky , And seem to shine more pure and brilliantly , Because they never part : All things in nature are to union given , And everything is joined in love to ...
... bright beams , With gold and crimson light ; Stars rise and set together in the sky , And seem to shine more pure and brilliantly , Because they never part : All things in nature are to union given , And everything is joined in love to ...
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Page 131 - Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north wind's breath, And stars to set, but all — Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death...
Page 46 - LAERTES' head. And these few precepts in thy memory Look thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hooks of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatched, unfledged comrade.
Page 46 - Neither a borrower nor a lender be ; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all : to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Page 59 - The hills, Rock-ribbed, and ancient as the sun; the vales, Stretching in pensive quietness between; The venerable woods; rivers that move In majesty ; and the complaining brooks, That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste,— Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.
Page 114 - A coat of mail, that it need not fear The downward point of many a spear, That he hung on its margin, far and near, Where a rock could rear its head. He went to the windows of those who slept, And over each pane, like a fairy, crept; Wherever he breathed, wherever he stepped, By the light of the...
Page 206 - gainst the rocks Of dark damnation broke, and music made Of melancholy sort...
Page 32 - Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these ? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this ! Take physic, pomp ; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them, And show the heavens more just.
Page 114 - Now, I shall be out of sight ; So through the valley and over the height, In silence I'll take my way ; I will not go on like that blustering train, The wind and the snow, the hail and the rain, Who make so much bustle and noise in vain ; — But I'll be as busy as they.
Page 170 - If in every dwelling built by blood, the stone from the wall should utter all the cries which the bloody traffic extorts, and the beam out of the timber should echo them back, who would build such a house? and who would dwell in it? What if, in every part of the dwelling, from the cellar upward, through all the halls and chambers, babblings, and contentions, and voices, and groans, and shrieks, and wailings were heard day and night?
Page 112 - By fabling Nilus, to the quivering touch Of Titan's ray, with each repulsive string Consenting, sounded through the warbling air Unbidden strains, even so did Nature's hand...