The United States Magazine and Democratic Review, Volume 22Langtree and O'Sullivan, 1848 |
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... give forth its odor , " asks an eloquent writer , " and the scent of the lav- ender and of the mignionette steal viewless upon the still air around us , and the blooming bean and the new - mown hay outscent all the prepara- tions of the ...
... give forth its odor , " asks an eloquent writer , " and the scent of the lav- ender and of the mignionette steal viewless upon the still air around us , and the blooming bean and the new - mown hay outscent all the prepara- tions of the ...
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... give us pleasure . Our food is use ful - simply because it satisfies a want ; and even if , like the olden sage , we should " eat to life , " ( though by the way - no sane man ever did thus eat , ) still will the utility of eating ...
... give us pleasure . Our food is use ful - simply because it satisfies a want ; and even if , like the olden sage , we should " eat to life , " ( though by the way - no sane man ever did thus eat , ) still will the utility of eating ...
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... give it value ? What can he receive in exchange for that ? He will " do " as well unfed . The tree of life no longer blooms for him . If " bread " be indeed , as political economists tell us - the standard of material value , what ...
... give it value ? What can he receive in exchange for that ? He will " do " as well unfed . The tree of life no longer blooms for him . If " bread " be indeed , as political economists tell us - the standard of material value , what ...
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... give a muscle strength . Equally vain is the at- tempt by teaching - to improve imaginative power . If we instruct ... gives life to narrative fiction , -yet a Milton sur- passes him in grandeur of moral imagining , —a Shakspeare ...
... give a muscle strength . Equally vain is the at- tempt by teaching - to improve imaginative power . If we instruct ... gives life to narrative fiction , -yet a Milton sur- passes him in grandeur of moral imagining , —a Shakspeare ...
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... give form to that which shall be , and which its own agency shall bring about . Dim visions of unrealised splendor occasionally gleam for an instant upon the awakened mind - to dazzle and bewilder . Thought fails to comprehend itself ...
... give form to that which shall be , and which its own agency shall bring about . Dim visions of unrealised splendor occasionally gleam for an instant upon the awakened mind - to dazzle and bewilder . Thought fails to comprehend itself ...
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Página 44 - Spirit of Beauty! that dost consecrate With thine own hues all thou dost shine upon Of human thought or form, where art thou gone? Why dost thou pass away and leave our state, This dim vast vale of tears, vacant and desolate...
Página 313 - If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union, or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it.
Página 517 - And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.
Página 217 - The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night And his affections dark as Erebus: Let no such man be trusted.
Página 386 - Never, never more shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom.
Página 43 - A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination: and poetry administers to the effect by acting upon the cause.
Página 42 - The great secret of morals is love; or a going out of our own nature, and an identification of ourselves with the beautiful which exists in thought, action, or person, not our own.
Página 42 - We want the creative faculty to imagine that which we know; we want the generous impulse to act that which we imagine; we want the poetry of life: our calculations have outrun conception; we have eaten more than we can digest.
Página 135 - The consequence of all these causes has been, a great subdivision of the soil, and a great equality of condition ; the true basis, most certainly, of a popular government.
Página 529 - ... successful exertions in the profession to which I belong. Does he not feel that it is as honourable to owe it to these, as to being the accident of an accident ? To all these noble lords the language of the noble duke is as applicable and as insulting as it is to myself. But I don't fear to meet it single and alone.