The American Monthly Magazine, Volume 1Peirce and Williams, 1829 |
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... seen foreign service , nor , if they had , are they , as there , graduates of colleges and holiday soldiers when at home . Then we have no writers for a living . The respectable talent goes where it is better paid - into the professions ...
... seen foreign service , nor , if they had , are they , as there , graduates of colleges and holiday soldiers when at home . Then we have no writers for a living . The respectable talent goes where it is better paid - into the professions ...
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... seen men , who , without any pretensions to dignity or imposing address , would arrest attention the moment their voices were heard , and who , if they leaned over to murmur in a woman's ear , were certain of pleasing , though the ...
... seen men , who , without any pretensions to dignity or imposing address , would arrest attention the moment their voices were heard , and who , if they leaned over to murmur in a woman's ear , were certain of pleasing , though the ...
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... seen a woman who would captivate most men by simply leaning on their arm . It was the only thing she knew , and she did that beautifully . It said more plainly than she could have spoken it , " I confide in you utterly " —and who , that ...
... seen a woman who would captivate most men by simply leaning on their arm . It was the only thing she knew , and she did that beautifully . It said more plainly than she could have spoken it , " I confide in you utterly " —and who , that ...
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... seen beauty , or grandeur , or delicate cunning , without a feeling in his inmost soul of unreached and unsatisfied conceptions ? I have gazed on the dazzling loveliness of woman till the value of my whole existence seemed pressed into ...
... seen beauty , or grandeur , or delicate cunning , without a feeling in his inmost soul of unreached and unsatisfied conceptions ? I have gazed on the dazzling loveliness of woman till the value of my whole existence seemed pressed into ...
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... seen , and discovers itself in a sympathy for the unhappy king . The conversation of the Fool , on the contrary , is composed of scraps of old songs and sayings , which he applies with bitter mirthfulness to the situation of his master ...
... seen , and discovers itself in a sympathy for the unhappy king . The conversation of the Fool , on the contrary , is composed of scraps of old songs and sayings , which he applies with bitter mirthfulness to the situation of his master ...
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Página 265 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily : when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Página 265 - This is mentioned to vindicate tragedy from the small esteem, or rather infamy, which in the account of many it undergoes at this day, with other common interludes; happening through the poets' error of intermixing comic stuff with tragic sadness and gravity, or introducing trivial and vulgar persons; which by all judicious hath been counted absurd and brought in without discretion, corruptly to gratify the people.
Página 434 - Blind with thine hair the eyes of Day; Kiss her until she be wearied out, Then wander o'er city, and sea, and land, Touching all with thine opiate wand— Come, long-sought!
Página 272 - Caesar must bleed for it. And, gentle friends, Let's kill him boldly, but not wrathfully; Let's carve him as a dish fit for the gods, Not hew him as a carcass fit for hounds...
Página 258 - Next, for hear me out now, readers, that I may tell ye whither my younger feet wandered, I betook me among those lofty fables and romances which recount in solemn cantos the deeds of knighthood founded by our victorious kings, and from hence had in renown over all Christendom.
Página 21 - And time and place are lost ; where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy, amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand...
Página 168 - O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies : The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight, Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light.
Página 434 - When I arose and saw the dawn, I sighed for thee; When light rode high, and the dew was gone, And noon lay heavy on flower and tree, And the weary Day turned to his rest, Lingering like an unloved guest, I sighed for thee. Thy brother Death came, and cried, Wouldst thou me ? Thy sweet child Sleep, the filmy-eyed, Murmured like a noontide bee, Shall I nestle near thy side ? Wouldst thou me?
Página 432 - Yet now despair itself is mild, Even as the winds and waters are; I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne and yet must bear...
Página 382 - ... an unheeded process in the skeleton of a mole, and whose mind like his microscope perceives nature only in detail ; the rhymer who makes smooth verses, and paints to our imagination when he should only speak to our hearts; all equally fancy themselves walking forward to immortality, and desire the crowd behind them to look on. The crowd takes them at their word. Patriot, philosopher, and poet, are shouted in their train. Where was there ever so much merit seen ; no times so important as our own...