The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, Volume 1Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew 1833 - American periodicals |
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... in thy day pedantry was not the bug - bear which it now is ; though even then ,
genius was held synonimous with folly , and to be suspected of being a poet did
as now seriously affect one's success in any respectable business . But whether it
...
... in thy day pedantry was not the bug - bear which it now is ; though even then ,
genius was held synonimous with folly , and to be suspected of being a poet did
as now seriously affect one's success in any respectable business . But whether it
...
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... the Magazine , though he could hardly have suspected , while marking the
knightly mien of that lion - faced warrior , that he beheld an authentic likeness of
one whom the hand of genius has invested with associations any thing but
romantic .
... the Magazine , though he could hardly have suspected , while marking the
knightly mien of that lion - faced warrior , that he beheld an authentic likeness of
one whom the hand of genius has invested with associations any thing but
romantic .
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... that most translations keep from their originals ; for most of them are made
under the double disadvantage , of an imperfect apprehension by the translator
himself of the real genius of his author , and of an imperfect fashion of rendering
what ...
... that most translations keep from their originals ; for most of them are made
under the double disadvantage , of an imperfect apprehension by the translator
himself of the real genius of his author , and of an imperfect fashion of rendering
what ...
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Genius is a will o ' the wisp which nothing but another will o ' the wisp can follow -
and that will not many a man - every man perhaps at times is as capable of
execration when his wounded spirit stirs and stings within him as Gethe ' s self -
he ...
Genius is a will o ' the wisp which nothing but another will o ' the wisp can follow -
and that will not many a man - every man perhaps at times is as capable of
execration when his wounded spirit stirs and stings within him as Gethe ' s self -
he ...
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... that most pernicious thing , that compendium of all the ways by which a human
being can possibly go to — Mephistopheles . Dissipation ! it is the consuming fire
, which the fruits of genius , the results of thought and study , and the offspring ...
... that most pernicious thing , that compendium of all the ways by which a human
being can possibly go to — Mephistopheles . Dissipation ! it is the consuming fire
, which the fruits of genius , the results of thought and study , and the offspring ...
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Page 210 - For the Lord shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
Page 209 - And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch. It shall not be quenched night nor day : the smoke thereof shall go up for ever : from generation to generation it shall lie waste : none shall pass through it for ever and ever...
Page 209 - Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken.
Page 209 - Chaldees" excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there ; but wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures ; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.
Page 333 - While you are engaged in the field, many will repair to the closet, many to the sanctuary; the faithful of every name will employ that prayer which has power with God; the feeble hands which are unequal to any other weapon, will grasp the sword of the Spirit; and from myriads of humble, contrite hearts, the voice of intercession, supplication, and weeping, will mingle in its ascent to heaven with the shouts of battle and the shock of arms.
Page 210 - Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.
Page 105 - YE who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow ; attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia.
Page 210 - O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires. And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones.
Page 333 - ... in eternal gloom. It is not necessary to await your determination. In the solicitude you feel to approve yourselves worthy of such a trust, every thought of what is afflicting in warfare, every apprehension of danger must vanish, and you are impatient to mingle in the battle of the civilized world.
Page 275 - What a singular destiny has been that of this remarkable man! To be regarded in his own age as a classic, and in ours as a companion. To receive from his contemporaries that full homage which men of genius have in general received only from posterity 1 To be more intimately known to posterity than other men are known to their contemporaries!
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| Title | The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, Volume 1 |
| Editors | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew |
| Published | 1833 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 7 Sep 2005 |
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