The Southern Quarterly Review, Volume 5Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell E. H. Britton, 1844 - American periodicals |
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... period of its accomplishment constitutes one of the grandest epochs in the history of man . Never before appeared , on the great political theatre , such actors , such virtue , such vice . Never were there such comminglement and chaos ...
... period of its accomplishment constitutes one of the grandest epochs in the history of man . Never before appeared , on the great political theatre , such actors , such virtue , such vice . Never were there such comminglement and chaos ...
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... period when this monarchic power attain- ed its greatest development . In the first place , never did man tread in the shoes of royalty with such surpassing ef fect as Louis ; never did king better understand what king James called king ...
... period when this monarchic power attain- ed its greatest development . In the first place , never did man tread in the shoes of royalty with such surpassing ef fect as Louis ; never did king better understand what king James called king ...
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... period as this , we might well expect a complete Anglophobia in France . Accordingly , we find the checks and balances of the British constitution , the perfect horror of Frenchmen , -they were looked on as im- peding national glory ...
... period as this , we might well expect a complete Anglophobia in France . Accordingly , we find the checks and balances of the British constitution , the perfect horror of Frenchmen , -they were looked on as im- peding national glory ...
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... period of the Roman Emperors , profligacy had never been conducted in so open and undisguised a manner . Louis XV . asserted that he could prove by facts not to be doubted , that from his earliest youth , there had been no young female ...
... period of the Roman Emperors , profligacy had never been conducted in so open and undisguised a manner . Louis XV . asserted that he could prove by facts not to be doubted , that from his earliest youth , there had been no young female ...
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... period like this , -it was an apt prelude to the re- volution which brought his successor to the block . 6. Louis XVI . - Necker says this monarch possessed qual- ities suitable for a balanced government like that of Eng- land , which ...
... period like this , -it was an apt prelude to the re- volution which brought his successor to the block . 6. Louis XVI . - Necker says this monarch possessed qual- ities suitable for a balanced government like that of Eng- land , which ...
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Page 495 - First, Moloch, horrid King, besmeared with blood Of human sacrifice, and parents' tears; Though, for the noise of drums and timbrels loud, Their children's cries unheard that passed through fire To his grim idol.
Page 444 - The birds their quire apply ; airs, vernal airs, Breathing the smell of field and grove, attune The trembling leaves, while universal Pan, Knit with the Graces and the Hours in dance, Led on the eternal Spring.
Page 451 - The other shape, If shape it might be call'd that shape had none, Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb ; Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seemed either ; black it stood as night, Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Page 445 - And all amid them stood the tree of life, High eminent, blooming ambrosial fruit Of vegetable gold; and next to life Our death the tree of knowledge grew fast by, Knowledge of good bought dear by knowing ill.
Page 188 - Could I embody and unbosom now That which is most within me, — could I wreak My thoughts upon expression, and thus throw Soul, heart, mind, passions, feelings strong or weak, All that I would have sought, and all I seek, Bear, know, feel, and yet breathe — into one word, And that one word were Lightning, I would speak ; But as it is, I live and die unheard, With a most voiceless thought, sheathing it as a sword.
Page 446 - Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native honour clad, In naked majesty seem'd lords of all : And worthy seem'd ; for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure (Severe, but in true filial freedom placed), Whence true authority in men...
Page 212 - Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me...
Page 438 - OF Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought Death into the world and all our woe, With loss of Eden (till one greater Man Restore us and regain the blissful seat!), Sing, heavenly Muse...
Page 440 - Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky With hideous ruin and combustion down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine* chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms.
Page 440 - From their Creator, and transgress his will, For one restraint, lords of the world besides ? Who first seduced them to that foul revolt ? The infernal Serpent; he it was, whose guile, Stirr'd up with envy and revenge, deceived The mother of mankind ; what time his pride Had cast him out from heaven, with all his host Of rebel angels; by whose aid, aspiring To set himself in glory...