The Rhode-Island Literary Repository, Volume 1Isaac Bailey Robinson and Howland, 1814 |
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... reader , therefore , to employ with me a few moments in meditating on the resurrection of the body ; the certainty and importance of the doctrine , its practical uses , and its spiritual consolations . And may it impart to us those holy ...
... reader , therefore , to employ with me a few moments in meditating on the resurrection of the body ; the certainty and importance of the doctrine , its practical uses , and its spiritual consolations . And may it impart to us those holy ...
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... readers would now no more think of sitting down to a whole Epic , than to a whole ox : -And truly , when we consider ... reading , are often so.
... readers would now no more think of sitting down to a whole Epic , than to a whole ox : -And truly , when we consider ... reading , are often so.
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Isaac Bailey. always skipped after the first reading , are often so tedious as to deter us from thinking of a second ... readers , however , as are liable to be perplexed by an ellipsis , we subjoin the following brief outline- by the ...
Isaac Bailey. always skipped after the first reading , are often so tedious as to deter us from thinking of a second ... readers , however , as are liable to be perplexed by an ellipsis , we subjoin the following brief outline- by the ...
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... readers . Such is the simple outline of this tale - which Turk or Chris- tian might have conceived as we have given it , without any great waste of invention - but to which we do not think any other but Lord Byron himself could have ...
... readers . Such is the simple outline of this tale - which Turk or Chris- tian might have conceived as we have given it , without any great waste of invention - but to which we do not think any other but Lord Byron himself could have ...
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... reader should be enabled to judge , from a few specimens , of the justness or accuracy of this comparative estimate . He may take , first , the following little sketch of an Oriental beauty . ' Her eye's dark charm ' twere vain to tell ...
... reader should be enabled to judge , from a few specimens , of the justness or accuracy of this comparative estimate . He may take , first , the following little sketch of an Oriental beauty . ' Her eye's dark charm ' twere vain to tell ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
admiration Æneas ancient appear Arminian attention beauty BENJAMIN WEST called Carthage cause Champe character charms Checkley christian church command considered death Dido divine Doctor Morse dulce domum earth effect endeavour excited fame fancy feel genius Giaour give glory Hannah Adams heart heaven honour hope human interest Jedediah Morse John Calvin justice Klopstock labour lady learned letter LITERARY REPOSITORY Lord Lord Byron Madame de Stael mankind ment mind Miss Adams moral motives nature never o'er object observed opinion original passions perhaps person Petrarch pleasure poem poet poetical poetry possessed present principles publick Pygmalion readers reason received religion respect Rhode-Island ship song soul spirit sublime superiour talents taste tears thee thing thou thought tion truth virtue whole WILLIAM HENRY ALLEN wish youth
Passagens conhecidas
Página 52 - He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress...
Página 114 - Wi' mony a vow and lock'd embrace Our parting was fu' tender ; And pledging aft to meet again, We tore oursels asunder ; But, Oh ! fell Death's untimely frost, That nipt my flower sae early ! Now green's the sod, and cauld's the clay, That wraps my Highland Mary...
Página 114 - O' my sweet Highland Mary. How sweetly bloom'd the gay green birk, How rich the hawthorn's blossom, As underneath their fragrant shade I clasp'd her to my bosom ! The golden hours on angel wings Flew o'er me and my dearie ; For dear to me as light and life Was my sweet Highland Mary. Wi' mony a vow and lock'd embrace Our parting was fu...
Página 120 - For, like as we are compelled by the Christian verity to acknowledge every Person by Himself to be God and Lord, so are we forbidden by the Catholic Religion to say, there be Three Gods or Three Lords.
Página 196 - Yet in the whole — who paused to look again, Saw more than marks the crowd of vulgar men — They gaze and marvel how — and still confess That thus it is, but why they cannot guess.
Página 137 - The sting she nourished for her foes, Whose venom never yet was vain, Gives but one pang, and cures all pain, And darts into her desperate brain...
Página 223 - ... when dead. If, however, we consider even the prejudiced anecdotes furnished us by his enemies, we may perceive in them traces of amiable and lofty character sufficient to awaken sympathy for his fate, and respect for his memory. We find that, amidst all the harassing cares and ferocious passions of constant warfare, he was alive to the softer feelings of connubial love and paternal tenderness, and to the generous sentiment of friendship. The captivity of his "beloved wife and only son...
Página 393 - And if ye lend to them of whom ye hope to receive, what thank have ye? for sinners also lend to sinners, to receive as much again.
Página 254 - Who bow'd so low the knee ? By gazing on thyself grown blind, Thou taught'st the rest to see. With might unquestion'd, • — power to save, Thine only gift hath been the grave, To those that worshipp'd thee; Nor till thy fall could mortals guess Ambition's less than littleness!
Página 256 - All Evil Spirit as thou art, It is enough to grieve the heart To see thine own unstrung; To think that God's fair world hath been The footstool of a thing so mean!