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... existence . It is to these purely original contributions , written by men of the first order of talent , that the Review owes most of its re- putation ; and their frequent appearance has exalted it above all other periodicals of the age ...
... existence . It is to these purely original contributions , written by men of the first order of talent , that the Review owes most of its re- putation ; and their frequent appearance has exalted it above all other periodicals of the age ...
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... existence . Very few now follow the example of Isaac of old , and go out into the fields to meditate . The old law of composition is reversed . Men do not appear to write be- cause they cannot help it , but to whip and goad their unwil ...
... existence . Very few now follow the example of Isaac of old , and go out into the fields to meditate . The old law of composition is reversed . Men do not appear to write be- cause they cannot help it , but to whip and goad their unwil ...
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... existence ; he discerns and addresses some of the finest sympathies of the heart ; but he rarely soars into those regions of abstract imagination , where the bodily eye cannot follow , but where that of the seer is gifted with 66 a ...
... existence ; he discerns and addresses some of the finest sympathies of the heart ; but he rarely soars into those regions of abstract imagination , where the bodily eye cannot follow , but where that of the seer is gifted with 66 a ...
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... intellectual testimo- nials of their mode and manner of existence , no " foot - prints on the sands of time . " The heart refuses to glow at the most astounding array of figures . A nation lives only POETS AND POETRY OF AMERICA . 73.
... intellectual testimo- nials of their mode and manner of existence , no " foot - prints on the sands of time . " The heart refuses to glow at the most astounding array of figures . A nation lives only POETS AND POETRY OF AMERICA . 73.
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... existence , which has not yet been fitly expressed , gives poignancy to the least ridicule launched at faults and follies which lie on the su- perficies of our life . Every person feels , that a book , which condemns the country for its ...
... existence , which has not yet been fitly expressed , gives poignancy to the least ridicule launched at faults and follies which lie on the su- perficies of our life . Every person feels , that a book , which condemns the country for its ...
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Page 330 - There lies the port: the vessel puffs her sail: There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners, Souls that have toil'd, and wrought, and thought with me — That ever with a frolic welcome took The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed Free hearts, free foreheads — you and I are old; Old age hath yet his...
Page 249 - And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind ; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things.
Page 260 - Meantime I seek no sympathies, nor need ; The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree I planted, — they have torn me — and I bleed : I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed.
Page 240 - IT is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the Sea: Listen! the mighty Being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thunder — everlastingly.
Page 240 - Listen! the mighty Being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thunder— everlastingly. Dear Child! dear Girl! that walkest with me here, If thou appear untouched by solemn thought, Thy nature is not therefore less divine: Thou liest in Abraham's bosom all the year; And worshipp'st at the Temple's inner shrine, God being with thee when we know it not.
Page 284 - This should have been a noble creature: he Hath all the energy which would have made A goodly frame of glorious elements, Had they been wisely mingled; as it is, It is an awful chaos — light and darkness, And mind and dust, and passions and pure thoughts, Mix'd, and contending without end or order, All dormant or destructive.
Page 180 - On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they raised their flag against a power, to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared ; a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.
Page 329 - Thro' scudding drifts the rainy Hyades Vext the dim sea: I am become a name; For always roaming with a hungry heart Much have I seen and known; cities of men And manners, climates, councils, governments, Myself not least, but...
Page 278 - Once more upon the waters ! yet once more ! And the waves bound beneath me as a steed That knows his rider. Welcome to their roar! Swift be their guidance, wheresoe'er it lead ! Though the...
Page 20 - Is it a party in a parlour, Crammed just as they on earth were crammed, Some sipping punch — some sipping tea, But, as you by their faces see, All silent, and all damned ! Peter Bell, by W.