The Southern literary messenger, Volumes 24-251857 |
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... smile of hypocritical du- plicity . The past career of our Republic has been one of unparalleled advance . ment in all the essential elements of great- ness and power . It has now thrown aside the swaddling clothes of puling in- fancy ...
... smile of hypocritical du- plicity . The past career of our Republic has been one of unparalleled advance . ment in all the essential elements of great- ness and power . It has now thrown aside the swaddling clothes of puling in- fancy ...
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... smile from the Infinite Father , and the holy Sabbath - day sank away into the eternity of the Past with God's blessing upon its latest moment - then came coolness and silence , and the dark wings of the Night were folded around a ...
... smile from the Infinite Father , and the holy Sabbath - day sank away into the eternity of the Past with God's blessing upon its latest moment - then came coolness and silence , and the dark wings of the Night were folded around a ...
Página 53
... smile , his tone , his silver laugh , his glowing yet chastened utter- ance , never faded from the senses , far less the hearts , of those who knew and survived him . At four years of age he studied the Latin grammer , and at six , in ...
... smile , his tone , his silver laugh , his glowing yet chastened utter- ance , never faded from the senses , far less the hearts , of those who knew and survived him . At four years of age he studied the Latin grammer , and at six , in ...
Página 57
... smile like the dawn of the day ! So I dream , an old bachelor , here in my room All alone but you sit by my side ! My fairy ! my angel , all beauty and bloom ! My love ! -everything but my bride ! BEAUTIES OF THE GRECIAN DRAMA ...
... smile like the dawn of the day ! So I dream , an old bachelor , here in my room All alone but you sit by my side ! My fairy ! my angel , all beauty and bloom ! My love ! -everything but my bride ! BEAUTIES OF THE GRECIAN DRAMA ...
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... smiles on wealth that bears thy stamp , Iniquity ! The following are descriptions of Menalaus ' regrets and Helen's beauty : Nor now delighted will he trace Her statue's imitative grace ; The dull cold stone may ill supply The living ...
... smiles on wealth that bears thy stamp , Iniquity ! The following are descriptions of Menalaus ' regrets and Helen's beauty : Nor now delighted will he trace Her statue's imitative grace ; The dull cold stone may ill supply The living ...
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Página 88 - Those who quit their proper character, to assume what does not belong to them, are, for the greater part, ignorant both of the character they leave, and of the character they assume.
Página 213 - WE knew it would rain, for all the morn. A spirit on slender ropes of mist Was lowering its golden buckets down Into the vapory amethyst Of marshes and swamps and dismal fens — Scooping the dew that lay in the flowers, Dipping the jewels out of the sea, To sprinkle them over the land in showers.
Página 475 - I deemed that if they were put under a sort of cover I might gain my end ; and happening to have a mask in the house, I told them all to stand and speak boldly from under cover of the mask. " I began with the youngest (Anne, afterwards Acton Bell), and asked what a child like her most wanted ; she answered, 'Age and experience.
Página 91 - But the power of Congress over the person or property of a citizen can never be a mere discretionary power under our Constitution and form of Government. The powers of the Government and the rights and privileges of the citizen are regulated and plainly defined by the Constitution itself.
Página 343 - The days of our age are threescore years and ten; and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years : yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone.
Página 90 - And if the Constitution recognizes the right of property of the master in a slave, and makes no distinction between that description of property and other property owned by a citizen, no tribunal, acting under the authority of the United States, whether it be legislative, executive, or judicial, has a right to draw such a distinction, or deny to it the benefit of the provisions and guarantees which have been provided for the protection of private property against the encroachments of the government.
Página 479 - HELEN, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore, That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary, way-worn wanderer bore To his own native shore. On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, , Thy Naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece And the grandeur that was Rome.
Página 475 - A circumstance now occurs to my mind which I may as well mention. When my children were very young, when, as far as I can remember, the oldest was about ten years of age, and the youngest about four, thinking that they knew more than I had yet discovered, in order to make them speak with less timidity, I deemed that if they were put...
Página 420 - The light clear element which the isle wears Is heavy with the scent of lemon-flowers, Which floats like mist laden with unseen showers. And falls upon the eyelids like faint sleep ; And from the moss violets and jonquils peep, And dart their arrowy odour through the brain, Till you might faint with that delicious pain.
Página 174 - On thy fair bosom, silver lake, The wild swan spreads his snowy sail, And round his breast the ripples break, As down he bears before the gale.