The Essayist: A Young Men's Magazine, Volume 1George Washington Light G.W. Light & Company, 1833 |
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... principle of action carried so far as it has been of late , it cannot be doubted that , as a popular means , it is the best , if not the only impulse capable of exciting and maintaining , among the mass of young men , a due regard for ...
... principle of action carried so far as it has been of late , it cannot be doubted that , as a popular means , it is the best , if not the only impulse capable of exciting and maintaining , among the mass of young men , a due regard for ...
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... principle with us to insert no ordinary poetry , and one to which , with very few exceptions , we have strictly ad- hered . Our time and attention being at present so much engrossed by other objects , we have concluded not to publish ...
... principle with us to insert no ordinary poetry , and one to which , with very few exceptions , we have strictly ad- hered . Our time and attention being at present so much engrossed by other objects , we have concluded not to publish ...
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... principle . Wherever it is an accompaniment , we shall receive it with pleasure ; and of course , in that case the ... principles , we are not of that class who think it an indication of wisdom , to say that they have no settled views in ...
... principle . Wherever it is an accompaniment , we shall receive it with pleasure ; and of course , in that case the ... principles , we are not of that class who think it an indication of wisdom , to say that they have no settled views in ...
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... principle that obliges them to pay visits to one another , and now and then to make an entertainment . But as the greatest care of the gay world is to be agreeable , and appear well bred , so most of them take particular care , and many ...
... principle that obliges them to pay visits to one another , and now and then to make an entertainment . But as the greatest care of the gay world is to be agreeable , and appear well bred , so most of them take particular care , and many ...
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... principles as an additional safeguard to existing free institutions ; and that we believe the true refinement ... principle , consecrated by the blood of our ancestors , that the will of a people should be the law of their land ...
... principles as an additional safeguard to existing free institutions ; and that we believe the true refinement ... principle , consecrated by the blood of our ancestors , that the will of a people should be the law of their land ...
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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...