The Continental Monthly, Volume 4J.R. Gilmore, 1863 - American periodicals |
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... happy to think , not only steadily increasing , but at the present moment is far more ex- tensive than was anticipated by those who are cognizant of all that took place in the colony in the earlier days of negro freedom . There can be ...
... happy to think , not only steadily increasing , but at the present moment is far more ex- tensive than was anticipated by those who are cognizant of all that took place in the colony in the earlier days of negro freedom . There can be ...
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... happy inno- cence of creation before the first out- break of evil , and the consequent mis- ery of nature . Poetry is indeed so full of haunting , melancholy memories , that it might almost be called the ' mind's supersensuous ...
... happy inno- cence of creation before the first out- break of evil , and the consequent mis- ery of nature . Poetry is indeed so full of haunting , melancholy memories , that it might almost be called the ' mind's supersensuous ...
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... happy St. Augustin : ' Oh , eternal beauty ! too late have I known thee ! ' ' Alas ! our young affections run to waste , Or water but the desert ; whence arise But weeds of dark luxuriance , tares of haste , Rank at the core , though ...
... happy St. Augustin : ' Oh , eternal beauty ! too late have I known thee ! ' ' Alas ! our young affections run to waste , Or water but the desert ; whence arise But weeds of dark luxuriance , tares of haste , Rank at the core , though ...
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... happy when one of her kind A sphere more refined and exalted should find- Should gracefully ' merge from a chrysalis state , To bask in the light of a loftier fate . * See account of the ' Prince's Ball , ' given in New York , some time ...
... happy when one of her kind A sphere more refined and exalted should find- Should gracefully ' merge from a chrysalis state , To bask in the light of a loftier fate . * See account of the ' Prince's Ball , ' given in New York , some time ...
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... happy to know it , For a package of genuine mental precocity Is certainly always a great curiosity , And worthy the cost and the toil of a visit- Like Barnum's astonishing creature— ' What is it ? ' ( A good advertisement for Phineas ...
... happy to know it , For a package of genuine mental precocity Is certainly always a great curiosity , And worthy the cost and the toil of a visit- Like Barnum's astonishing creature— ' What is it ? ' ( A good advertisement for Phineas ...
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Page 401 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me ; Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form : Then have I reason to be fond of grief.
Page 535 - Thou's met me in an evil hour ; For I maun crush amang the stoure Thy slender stem. To spare thee now is past my pow'r, Thou bonie gem. Alas ! it's no thy neebor sweet, The bonie Lark, companion meet ! Bending thee 'mang the dewy weet ! Wi' spreckl'd breast, When upward-springing, blythe, to greet The purpling east.
Page 401 - An' naething, now, to big a new ane, O' foggage green ! An' bleak December's winds ensuin', Baith snell and keen ! Thou saw the fields laid bare an' waste, An' weary winter comin' fast, An' cozie here, beneath the blast, Thou thought to dwell, 'Till, crash ! the cruel coulter past Out thro' thy cell. That wee bit heap o...
Page 27 - All heaven and earth are still — though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling most; And silent, as we stand in thoughts too deep...
Page 534 - THE DANDELION. DEAR common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold, First pledge of blithesome May, Which children pluck, and, full of pride, uphold, High-hearted buccaneers, o'erjoyed that they An Eldorado in the grass have found, Which not the rich earth's ample round May match in wealth, — tliou art more dear to me Than all the prouder summerblooms may be.
Page 535 - mang the dewy weet ! Wi' speckled breast, When upward-springing, blithe, to greet The purpling east. Cauld blew the bitter-biting north Upon thy early, humble birth : Yet cheerfully thou glinted forth Amid the storm, Scarce reared above the parent earth Thy tender form. The flaunting flowers our gardens yield, High sheltering woods and wa's maun shield, But thou beneath the random bield O' clod or stane, Adorns the histie stibble-field, Unseen, alane.
Page 401 - And, father cardinal, I have heard you say, That we shall see and know our friends in heaven: If that be true, I shall see my boy again; For, since the birth of Cain, the first male child, To him that did but yesterday suspire, There was not such a gracious creature born. But now will...
Page 534 - Tis the Spring's largess, which she scatters now To rich and poor alike with lavish hand, Though most hearts never understand To take it at God's value, but pass by The offered wealth with unrewarded eye.
Page 486 - Its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth. that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition.
Page 171 - Fresh pearls to their enamel gave, And the bellowing of the savage sea Greeted their safe escape to me. I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar.