The American Whig Review, Volume 1; Volume 7Wiley and Putnam, 1848 |
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... necessary to say , to give the party to which this journal is devoted perfect confidence in its course . The work has attained a wide circulation , and we believe has the confidence of the public in all parts of the country . It is of ...
... necessary to say , to give the party to which this journal is devoted perfect confidence in its course . The work has attained a wide circulation , and we believe has the confidence of the public in all parts of the country . It is of ...
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... necessary to obtain the requisite aid . The price paid for valuable articles , though it already exceeded what the finances would bear , had to be in- creased , that none but good material might be used . The political department , espe ...
... necessary to obtain the requisite aid . The price paid for valuable articles , though it already exceeded what the finances would bear , had to be in- creased , that none but good material might be used . The political department , espe ...
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... necessary to regard the interests of general literature in the REVIEW , equally with those of politics - the two being necessary to each other . In regard to sectional questions , a jour- nal professing to be purely national must either ...
... necessary to regard the interests of general literature in the REVIEW , equally with those of politics - the two being necessary to each other . In regard to sectional questions , a jour- nal professing to be purely national must either ...
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... necessary causes of dispute whatever between Mexico and us , the President found or deemed it necessary to turn his back upon the false pretences he had con- stantly set up and insisted on , as inducing and justifying hostilities , and ...
... necessary causes of dispute whatever between Mexico and us , the President found or deemed it necessary to turn his back upon the false pretences he had con- stantly set up and insisted on , as inducing and justifying hostilities , and ...
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... necessary indem- nity , with a generous offer of payment , of how many millions we know not , for what- ever balance of value there might be over and above the indemnity . This was his policy and his resolution , and hence his labored ...
... necessary indem- nity , with a generous offer of payment , of how many millions we know not , for what- ever balance of value there might be over and above the indemnity . This was his policy and his resolution , and hence his labored ...
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Page 158 - ... reveals itself in the balance or reconciliation of opposite or discordant qualities: of sameness, with difference; of the general, with the concrete; the idea, with the image; the individual, with the representative; the sense of novelty and freshness, with old and familiar objects; a more than usual state of emotion, with more than usual order...
Page 33 - He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune ; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men, which both in affection and means have married and endowed the public.
Page 162 - When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
Page 162 - Fair was she to behold, that maiden of seventeen summers. Black were her eyes as the berry that grows on the thorn by the wayside, Black, yet how softly they gleamed beneath the brown shade of her tresses! Sweet was her breath as the breath of kine that feed in the meadows.
Page 158 - The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other, according to their relative worth and dignity. He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity that blends, and (as it were) fuses, each into each, by that synthetic and magical power to which we have exclusively appropriated the name of imagination.
Page 159 - The primary Imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM...
Page 159 - I consider as an echo of the former, co-existing with the conscious will, yet still as identical with the primary in the kind of its agency, and differing only in degree, and in the mode of its operation. It dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in order to re-create: or where this process is rendered impossible, yet still at all events it struggles to idealize and to unify. It is essentially vital, even as all objects (as objects) are essentially fixed and dead.
Page 21 - No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, . . . enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, . . .
Page 167 - A lovely Ladie rode him faire beside, Upon a lowly Asse more white than snow, Yet she much whiter, but the same did hide Under a vele, that wimpled was full low...
Page 158 - What is poetry? is so nearly the same question with, what is a poet ? that the answer to the one is involved in the solution of the other. For it is a distinction resulting from the poetic genius itself, which sustains and modifies the images, thoughts, and emotions of the poet's own mind.