American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 9Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew 1837 - Periodicals |
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... or an air at the opera , than they are willing to pay for objects of real utility ; nor lavish on a successful actor or buffoon , rewards and honors which they VOL . IX . 1 deny to the meritorious statesman , the successful defender of.
... or an air at the opera , than they are willing to pay for objects of real utility ; nor lavish on a successful actor or buffoon , rewards and honors which they VOL . IX . 1 deny to the meritorious statesman , the successful defender of.
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... honor for princes to employ him , was invited to Rome , and patronized by Leo the Tenth , the Macenas of the purple . Let us see to what this patronage led . ' The artist , ' says his biographer , ' had received instructions to ...
... honor for princes to employ him , was invited to Rome , and patronized by Leo the Tenth , the Macenas of the purple . Let us see to what this patronage led . ' The artist , ' says his biographer , ' had received instructions to ...
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... honor of being patronized by a prince cardinal . Dominichino was also patronized by a cardinal , who paid him about twelve pounds for the Communion of St. Jerome , which is now worth as many thousands . There is a fine picture of the ...
... honor of being patronized by a prince cardinal . Dominichino was also patronized by a cardinal , who paid him about twelve pounds for the Communion of St. Jerome , which is now worth as many thousands . There is a fine picture of the ...
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... honors from the association far greater than they could bestow . From a pretty careful examination of the subject ... honored with the highest offices . The Secretary of State was almost always a scholar of eminence , and a great portion ...
... honors from the association far greater than they could bestow . From a pretty careful examination of the subject ... honored with the highest offices . The Secretary of State was almost always a scholar of eminence , and a great portion ...
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... honor , when he left this city , a few days since , carried with him engagements to the amount of seventeen thousand dollars , and that others to a large amount have since been forwarded to him . We also know that he has ascertained ...
... honor , when he left this city , a few days since , carried with him engagements to the amount of seventeen thousand dollars , and that others to a large amount have since been forwarded to him . We also know that he has ascertained ...
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Page 132 - Why so pale and wan, fond lover? Prithee, why so pale? Will, when looking well can't move her, Looking ill prevail? Prithee, why so pale?
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Page 423 - ... the truth, will my nose be anxious for a closer intimacy, till the fumes of your breath be a little less potent. Mercy on you, man! The water absolutely hisses down your red-hot gullet, and is converted quite to steam, in the miniature tophet, which you mistake for a stomach.
Page 422 - I am the chief person of the municipality, and exhibit, moreover, an admirable pattern to my brother officers, by the cool, steady, upright, downright, and impartial discharge of my business, and the constancy with which I stand to my post. Summer or winter, nobody seeks me in vain ; for, all day long, I am seen at the busiest corner, just above the market, stretching out my arms to rich and poor alike ; and at night, I hold a lantern over my head, both to show where I am, and keep people out of...
Page 105 - I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat; if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, 'Logan is the friend of white men.
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Page 472 - Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old: My never-failing friends are they, With whom I converse day by day. With them I take delight in weal And seek relief in woe; And while I understand and feel How much to them I owe, My cheeks have often been bedewed With tears of thoughtful gratitude.
Page 423 - Who next ? Oh, my little friend, you are let loose from school, and come hither to scrub your blooming face, and drown the memory of certain taps of the ferule, and other schoolboy troubles, in a draught from the Town Pump.
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Page 567 - Who say, that when the Poet dies, Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies : Who say, tall cliff, and cavern lone, For the departed Bard make moan ; That mountains weep in crystal rill ; That flowers in tears of balm distil ; Through his loved groves that breezes sigh, And oaks, in deeper groan, reply ; And rivers teach their rushing wave To murmur dirges round his grave.