The Western Monthly Review, Volume 3Timothy Flint E.H. Flint, 1830 - Mississippi River Valley |
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... France , before the revolution , it follows in such minds that it must be true now . Read modern works ; read occasionally foreign reviews ; and , if possi- ble , newspapers ; and you will better know , what the stranger thinks of you ...
... France , before the revolution , it follows in such minds that it must be true now . Read modern works ; read occasionally foreign reviews ; and , if possi- ble , newspapers ; and you will better know , what the stranger thinks of you ...
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... France , where liberal principles have now firmly taken root , a country without either character in her men , or virtue in her women , or religion in either , or taste in any thing ; in short , good for nothing , but for producing wine ...
... France , where liberal principles have now firmly taken root , a country without either character in her men , or virtue in her women , or religion in either , or taste in any thing ; in short , good for nothing , but for producing wine ...
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... France , for instance , where Shakspeare was looked upon only a short time ago , as a semi - barbarian , * English politics and literature are now zealously studied , and the ladies are obliged to make many faces in pronouncing what ...
... France , for instance , where Shakspeare was looked upon only a short time ago , as a semi - barbarian , * English politics and literature are now zealously studied , and the ladies are obliged to make many faces in pronouncing what ...
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... France . Yet the people of this wonderful country , by general estimation deemed frivolous , and capable only of perfection in the walks of lighter literature , are at this moment acknowledged to surpass all others in knowledge of the ...
... France . Yet the people of this wonderful country , by general estimation deemed frivolous , and capable only of perfection in the walks of lighter literature , are at this moment acknowledged to surpass all others in knowledge of the ...
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... is clearly his beau ideal , never in the light of a servile imitator , but as one , into whose deep spirit , whose pro- found melancholy , whose grand and original energy and compactness 26 July , Literature of France .
... is clearly his beau ideal , never in the light of a servile imitator , but as one , into whose deep spirit , whose pro- found melancholy , whose grand and original energy and compactness 26 July , Literature of France .
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Page 497 - The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions dare descry ; Still as they run they look behind, They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy. Gay hope is theirs, by fancy fed, Less pleasing, when possest, ; The tear forgot as soon as shed, The sunshine of the breast...
Page 91 - Ilk happing bird, wee helpless thing, That in the merry months o' spring Delighted me to hear thee sing, What comes o
Page 652 - There she is — behold her, and judge for yourselves. There is her history; the world knows it by heart. The past, at least, is secure. There is Boston, and Concord, and Lexington, and Bunker Hill — and there they will remain forever.
Page 555 - The faint old man shall lean his silver head To feel thee ; thou shalt kiss the child asleep, And dry the moistened curls that overspread His temples, while his breathing grows more deep: And they who stand about the sick man's bed, Shall joy to listen to thy distant sweep, And softly part his curtains to allow Thy visit, grateful to his burning brow.
Page 652 - ... arm with whatever of vigor it may still retain, over the friends who gather round it; and it will fall at last, if fall it must, amidst the proudest monuments of its own glory, and on the very spot of its origin.
Page 91 - But, fare you weel, auld Nickie-ben ! O wad ye tak a thought an' men' ! Ye aiblins might — I dinna ken — Still hae a stake : I'm wae to think upo...
Page 499 - Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust : for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
Page 554 - SPIRIT that breathest through my lattice, thou That cool'st the twilight of the sultry day, Gratefully flows thy freshness round my brow; Thou hast been out upon the deep at play, Riding all day the wild blue waves till now, Roughening their crests, and scattering high their spray, And swelling the white sail. I welcome thee To the scorched land, thou wanderer of the sea...
Page 93 - Manhood begins when we have in any way made truce with Necessity ; begins even when we have surrendered to Necessity, as the most part only do ; but begins joyfully and hopefully only when we have reconciled ourselves to Necessity ; and thus, in reality, triumphed over it, and felt that in Necessity we are free.
Page 89 - Here are no fabulous woes or joys ; no hollow fantastic sentimentalities ; no wiredrawn refinings, either in thought or feeling : the passion that is traced before us has glowed in a living heart ; the opinion he utters has risen in his own understanding, and been a light to his own steps.