Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volumes 51-52John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell Leavitt, Throw and Company, 1861 - American periodicals |
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... Look upward , and you are startled at the sight of what appear like the fragments of the steps of mighty pyramids , that have been shivered by the earthquake , and thrown into every manner of fantastic form . Mount to the summit of that ...
... Look upward , and you are startled at the sight of what appear like the fragments of the steps of mighty pyramids , that have been shivered by the earthquake , and thrown into every manner of fantastic form . Mount to the summit of that ...
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... look for the rising of the sun . We do not find in them the poetry of the imagination , or earthly imagery carried to extrava- gance or absurdity , and having the passions for the arena of their influence . We have rather the expression ...
... look for the rising of the sun . We do not find in them the poetry of the imagination , or earthly imagery carried to extrava- gance or absurdity , and having the passions for the arena of their influence . We have rather the expression ...
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... look up as tant affairs , so that the viziers , command- their Messiah , the last and greatest imper- ers of troops , and other officers in the sonation of the deity upon earth . Ha- service of the caliph , were obliged to pay kem B'emr ...
... look up as tant affairs , so that the viziers , command- their Messiah , the last and greatest imper- ers of troops , and other officers in the sonation of the deity upon earth . Ha- service of the caliph , were obliged to pay kem B'emr ...
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... look , and his voice was strong and ter- rible . His character was caprice and in- constancy joined to cruelty , and impiety joined to superstition : he is said to have paid especial reverence to the planet Sa- turn , and to have had ...
... look , and his voice was strong and ter- rible . His character was caprice and in- constancy joined to cruelty , and impiety joined to superstition : he is said to have paid especial reverence to the planet Sa- turn , and to have had ...
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... Look at the filthy staircase by which they have descended , and the dirty entrance through which they pick their way to the carriage ! They let the best part of the house , and live in discomfort in a small back room , that they may ...
... Look at the filthy staircase by which they have descended , and the dirty entrance through which they pick their way to the carriage ! They let the best part of the house , and live in discomfort in a small back room , that they may ...
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Page 141 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he, who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Page 511 - And some of them said, Could not this man, which opened the eyes of the blind, have caused that even this man should not have died?
Page 509 - I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope thro' darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope.
Page 2 - The voice of the Lord is powerful, the voice of the Lord is full of majesty. The voice of the Lord breaketh the cedars ; yea, the Lord breaketh the cedars of Lebanon.
Page 506 - This round of green, this orb of flame, Fantastic beauty ; such as lurks In some wild Poet, when he works Without a conscience or an aim. What then were God to such as I...
Page 141 - And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.
Page 507 - I wage not any feud with Death For changes wrought on form and face; No lower life that earth's embrace May breed with him, can fright my faith. Eternal process moving on, From state to state the spirit walks; And these are but the shatter'd stalks, Or ruin'd chrysalis of one.
Page 564 - With a, full View of the English-Dutch Struggle against Spain, and of the Origin and Destruction of the Spanish Armada. By JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY, LL.D., DCL Portraits.
Page 508 - He fought his doubts and gather'd strength, He would not make his judgment blind, He faced the spectres of the mind And laid them : thus he came at length To find a stronger faith his own ; And Power was with him in the night, Which makes the darkness and the light, And dwells not in the light alone, But in the darkness and the cloud, As over Sinai's peaks of old, While Israel made their gods of gold, Altho
Page 508 - Perplext in faith, but pure in deeds, At last he beat his music out. There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.