Letters from New YorkC.S. Francis & Company, 1846 - 288 páginas |
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... graceful emblems of the Past ; steered by Necessity ; the Will constrained by out- ward Force . Quick as a flash , the steamboat passes them by its rapidly revolving wheel made golden by the sunlight , and dropping diamonds to the laugh ...
... graceful emblems of the Past ; steered by Necessity ; the Will constrained by out- ward Force . Quick as a flash , the steamboat passes them by its rapidly revolving wheel made golden by the sunlight , and dropping diamonds to the laugh ...
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... graceful confusion of nature ; and neatness has a charm in New - York , by reason of its exceeding rarity . St. John's Park , though not without pretensions to beauty , never strikes my eye agreeably , because it is shut up from the ...
... graceful confusion of nature ; and neatness has a charm in New - York , by reason of its exceeding rarity . St. John's Park , though not without pretensions to beauty , never strikes my eye agreeably , because it is shut up from the ...
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... graceful , twining dance . I should be half - reluctant to cut a cluster of the beautiful crimson seed - vessels , lest I should wound the finger of some Hamadryad , Those simple crown - twisters , Who of one favourite 3 LETTERS FROM ...
... graceful , twining dance . I should be half - reluctant to cut a cluster of the beautiful crimson seed - vessels , lest I should wound the finger of some Hamadryad , Those simple crown - twisters , Who of one favourite 3 LETTERS FROM ...
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... graceful , feathery elms , its majestic old oaks , its innumerable hidden nooks of greenery , and Ja- maica pond , that lovely , lucid mirror of the water nymphs , is scarcely equal to Hoboken . I saw it for the first time in the early ...
... graceful , feathery elms , its majestic old oaks , its innumerable hidden nooks of greenery , and Ja- maica pond , that lovely , lucid mirror of the water nymphs , is scarcely equal to Hoboken . I saw it for the first time in the early ...
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... graceful pro- portions . I always used to think of Etalexis , when I read of Benjamin West's exclamation , the first time he saw the Apollo Belvidere : My God ! how like a young Mohawk warrior ! ' But for years I had not thought of the ...
... graceful pro- portions . I always used to think of Etalexis , when I read of Benjamin West's exclamation , the first time he saw the Apollo Belvidere : My God ! how like a young Mohawk warrior ! ' But for years I had not thought of the ...
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angels animal animal magnetism Astor House beautiful birds blessed breeze brought called capital punishment Caucasian race child Christian church cloud coloured daguerreotype discord Do-Hum-Me Dutch earth East River echoes evil excited eyes fairy faith father feel flowers forms friendly garden golden graceful Haiti hand heard heart heaven Hoboken holy human images imagination Indians infinite influence island Jews laws LETTER light live look Macdonald Clarke Maria Edgeworth mind moral nature ness never New-York outward passed poor porringer prison race racter reverence round seemed shadow sing slave slavery smile society soul sound speak spirit stands Staten Island stood street strong sweet Sybil's cave synagogue thee things thou thought tion told tones trees truth universal utterance venera voice walk whole window woman women wonder word young
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Página 274 - ... Mockingly, On coop or kennel he hangs Parian wreaths; A swan-like form invests the hidden thorn; Fills up the farmer's lane from wall to wall, Maugre the farmer's sighs; and at the gate A tapering turret overtops the work. And when his hours are numbered, and the world Is all his own, retiring, as he were not, Leaves, when the sun appears, astonished Art To mimic in slow structures, stone by stone, Built in an age, the mad wind's night-work, The frolic architecture of the snow.
Página 39 - Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue : and it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the Lord, and do them...
Página 160 - To abolish a status, which in all ages GOD has sanctioned, and man has continued, would not only be robbery to an innumerable class of our fellow-subjects, but it would be extreme cruelty to the African savages, a portion of whom it saves from massacre, or intolerable bondage in 'their own country, and introduces into a much happier state of life; especially now when their passage to the West Indies, and their treatment there, is humanely regulated. To abolish this trade would be to ' " shut the...
Página 120 - We shape ourselves the joy or fear Of which the coming life is made, And fill our Future's atmosphere With sunshine or with shade. The tissue of the Life to be We weave with colors all our own, And in the field of Destiny We reap as we have sown. Still shall the soul around it call The shadows which it gathered here, And painted on the eternal wall The Past shall reappear.
Página iii - Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth And from the soul itself must there be sent A sweet and potent voice, of its own birth, Of all sweet sounds the life and element!
Página 41 - And thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give thee. And thou shalt make a mercy seat of pure gold : two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof.
Página 42 - And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook ; and ye shall rejoice before the Lord your God seven days.
Página 31 - In such an hour he turns, and" on his view, Ocean, and earth, and heaven, burst before him. Clouds slumbering at his feet, and the clear blue Of Summer's sky, in beauty bending o'er him...
Página 47 - Judah wanders still. And hath she wandered thus in vain A pilgrim of the past ? No ! long deferred her hope hath been, But it shall come at last : For in her wastes a voice I hear, As from some prophet's urn ; It bids the nations build not there, For Jacob shall return.