The Italian Sketch BookKey & Biddle, 1835 - 216 páginas |
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... Gazette . Harpe's Head is one of the most interesting stories with which we are ac- quainted . - Daily Chronicle . Judge Hall is among the most popular of American writers , and in the present production , has given another proof of the ...
... Gazette . Harpe's Head is one of the most interesting stories with which we are ac- quainted . - Daily Chronicle . Judge Hall is among the most popular of American writers , and in the present production , has given another proof of the ...
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... Gazette . Messrs . Key & Biddle have made a valuable present to religious parents , guardians , and friends , in this elegant little volume . Why should all our gifts on these occasions be worldly , or worse ? And why should religious ...
... Gazette . Messrs . Key & Biddle have made a valuable present to religious parents , guardians , and friends , in this elegant little volume . Why should all our gifts on these occasions be worldly , or worse ? And why should religious ...
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... Gazette . Key & Biddle have recently published another series of Tales - the Soldier's Bride , & c . by James Hall . The approbation everywhere elicited by Judge Hall's Legends of the West , has secured a favorable reception for the ...
... Gazette . Key & Biddle have recently published another series of Tales - the Soldier's Bride , & c . by James Hall . The approbation everywhere elicited by Judge Hall's Legends of the West , has secured a favorable reception for the ...
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... agreeable sensation , that we are gathering the information of very extensive travel easily , by our own fireside . - London Lite- rary Gazette . WORKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED YOUNG MAN'S OWN BOOK . A Manual BY KEY & BIDDLE .
... agreeable sensation , that we are gathering the information of very extensive travel easily , by our own fireside . - London Lite- rary Gazette . WORKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED YOUNG MAN'S OWN BOOK . A Manual BY KEY & BIDDLE .
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... Gazette . The Young Lady's Own Book seems to us to have been carefully prepared , to comprehend much and various instruction of a practical character , and to corre- spond in its contents with its title . - Young Man's Advocate . The ...
... Gazette . The Young Lady's Own Book seems to us to have been carefully prepared , to comprehend much and various instruction of a practical character , and to corre- spond in its contents with its title . - Young Man's Advocate . The ...
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Página 38 - There is a stern round tower of other days, Firm as a fortress, with its fence of stone, Such as an army's baffled strength delays, Standing with half its battlements alone, And with two thousand years of ivy grown, The garland of eternity, where wave The green leaves over all by time o'erthrown ; — What was this tower of strength ? within its cave What treasure lay so lock'd, so hid ? — A woman's grave.
Página 13 - The Niobe of nations, — there she stands, Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe ; An empty urn within her withered hands, Whose holy dust was scattered long ago ; The Scipios...
Página 107 - I loved her from my boyhood — she to me Was as a fairy city of the heart, Rising like water.columns from the sea, Of joy the sojourn, and of wealth the mart ; And Otway, Radcliffe, Schiller, Shakspeare's art, Had stamp'd her image in me...
Página iii - Italia! oh Italia! thou who hast The fatal gift of beauty, which became A funeral dower of present woes and past, On thy sweet brow is sorrow plough'd by shame, And annals graved in characters of flame. Oh, God! that thou wert in thy nakedness Less lovely or more powerful, and couldst claim Thy right, and awe the robbers back, who press To shed thy blood, and drink the tears of thy distress...
Página 171 - And solemn smokes, like altars of the world. Thrice beautiful! — to that delightful spot Carry our married hearts, and be all pain forgot. There Art, too, shows, when Nature's beauty palls, Her sculptured marbles, and her pictured walls ; And there are forms in which they both conspire To whisper themes that know not how to tire ; The speaking ruins in that gentle clime Have but been hallow'd by the hand of Time, And each can mutely prompt some thought of flame: The meanest stone is not without...
Página 155 - PLEASURE, that comes unlooked-for, is thrice welcome; And, if it stir the heart, if aught be there, That may hereafter in a thoughtful hour Wake but a sigh, 'tis treasured up among The things most precious ! and the day it came Is noted as a white day in our lives.