American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 57Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis 1861 |
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... young Duchess of Burgundy , whose remark to this effect was then considered so naive . The mariage de convenance is quite as prevalent , children as artificial , and old people as child - like ; the precieuses ridicules are , however ...
... young Duchess of Burgundy , whose remark to this effect was then considered so naive . The mariage de convenance is quite as prevalent , children as artificial , and old people as child - like ; the precieuses ridicules are , however ...
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... young Parisian , as he recals the opening chapters of La Peau de Chagrin ; every aspect and secret of Grisette life has been depicted ; the poetry of the career of a gifted French noble , whose first youth witnessed the prologue of the ...
... young Parisian , as he recals the opening chapters of La Peau de Chagrin ; every aspect and secret of Grisette life has been depicted ; the poetry of the career of a gifted French noble , whose first youth witnessed the prologue of the ...
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... young children prevented . The crisis of 1837 swept over the entire country like a tornado , and it carried our firm irretrievably under . I was in the very vigor of manhood , and I laughed at calamity . I only felt the stronger to ...
... young children prevented . The crisis of 1837 swept over the entire country like a tornado , and it carried our firm irretrievably under . I was in the very vigor of manhood , and I laughed at calamity . I only felt the stronger to ...
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... young man . He knew the routine of the trade well , and , although he sometimes assumed more than was becoming a comparative youth , I cannot say he took advantage of his position ; nor am I aware that he ever violated the rules of our ...
... young man . He knew the routine of the trade well , and , although he sometimes assumed more than was becoming a comparative youth , I cannot say he took advantage of his position ; nor am I aware that he ever violated the rules of our ...
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... young Havens was coming , ( Miss Alice , my eldest , was already sixteen , and did not appear vexed at this last announcement , ) and I was expected to contribute toward the entertainment . I smiled with a father's pride and joy as I ...
... young Havens was coming , ( Miss Alice , my eldest , was already sixteen , and did not appear vexed at this last announcement , ) and I was expected to contribute toward the entertainment . I smiled with a father's pride and joy as I ...
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Página 221 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Página 495 - This was the noblest Roman of them all: All the conspirators, save only he, Did that they did in envy of great Caesar; He, only, in a general honest thought, And common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle; and the elements So mix'd in him, that Nature might stand up, And say to all the world, This was a man!
Página 380 - I hope I shall not be found to have the troubled fountain of a corrupt heart, in a depraved habit of taking rewards to pervert justice ; howsoever I may be frail, and partake of the abuses of the times.
Página 489 - Now is it Rome indeed, and room enough, When there is in it but one only man. O, you and I have heard our fathers say There was a Brutus once that would have brook'd The eternal devil to keep his state in Rome As easily as a king.
Página 562 - Over my heart, in the days that are flown, No love like mother-love ever has shone; No other worship abides and endures,— Faithful, unselfish, and patient, like yours: None like a mother can charm away pain From the sick soul and the world-weary brain.
Página 486 - Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem upon her zone ; And Morning opes with haste her lids To gaze upon the Pyramids ; O'er England's Abbeys bends the sky As on its friends with kindred eye ; For, out of Thought's interior sphere These wonders rose to upper air, And nature gladly gave them place, Adopted them into her race, And granted them an equal date With Andes and with Ararat.
Página 621 - Is there a heart that music cannot melt? Alas! how is that rugged heart forlorn; Is there, who ne'er those mystic transports felt Of solitude and melancholy born ? He needs not woo the Muse; he is her scorn.
Página 338 - The clouds hang over it, heavy and gray, And dark and silent the water lies; And out of that frozen mist the snow In wavering flakes begins to flow; Flake after flake, They sink in the dark and silent lake.
Página 106 - ... from the vile temptation of peevish, despairing, uncomplying melancholy, it must needs be innocent and commendable. And we may as well be refreshed by a clean and a brisk discourse, as by the air of Campanian wines ; and our faces and our heads may as well be anointed and look pleasant with wit and friendly intercourse, as with the fat of the balsamtree; and such a conversation no wise man ever did, or ought to reprove.
Página 338 - I see in thy gentle eyes a tear ; They turn to me in sorrowful thought ; Thou thinkest of friends, the good and dear, Who were for a time, and now are not...