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... matter , ib . - on news- paper , 210 - Post - Office contracts , 212- Local Post - Offices , ib .- ( Note . ) R. Rangers , My First Day with the , a sketch of Texas Frontier Life , ( Charles Win- terfield . ) 280 . Pan is Dead , Miss ...
... matter , ib . - on news- paper , 210 - Post - Office contracts , 212- Local Post - Offices , ib .- ( Note . ) R. Rangers , My First Day with the , a sketch of Texas Frontier Life , ( Charles Win- terfield . ) 280 . Pan is Dead , Miss ...
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... matter of choice , it is obvious that our literature must be forever unsubstan- tial and fugitive . It can have no digni- ty , because no consistency - little beauty as a whole , because little harmony of the parts - no great body of ...
... matter of choice , it is obvious that our literature must be forever unsubstan- tial and fugitive . It can have no digni- ty , because no consistency - little beauty as a whole , because little harmony of the parts - no great body of ...
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... matter pressed still further , a labarynthine definition would be the issue , garnished with such a variety of prefixes , according to the locality of the speaker , as to render a consecutive series of ideas out of the question . Our ...
... matter pressed still further , a labarynthine definition would be the issue , garnished with such a variety of prefixes , according to the locality of the speaker , as to render a consecutive series of ideas out of the question . Our ...
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... matter as that of the formation of a gov- ernment for a vast country , embracing a multitude of details , and providing for the exigency of a thousand unknown cir- cumstances . These differences divided the people at the first , and ...
... matter as that of the formation of a gov- ernment for a vast country , embracing a multitude of details , and providing for the exigency of a thousand unknown cir- cumstances . These differences divided the people at the first , and ...
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... matters were held in reserve as subordinate to the other great matter in which they were so zealously employed , namely , the getting up in some way the old party names , and in adroitly taking to themselves that of Democrats . we have ...
... matters were held in reserve as subordinate to the other great matter in which they were so zealously employed , namely , the getting up in some way the old party names , and in adroitly taking to themselves that of Democrats . we have ...
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Page 145 - Nevermore." "Prophet!" said I, "thing of evil! prophet still, if bird or devil! Whether Tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore, Desolate yet all undaunted, on this desert land enchanted — On this home by Horror haunted — tell me truly, I implore: Is there — is there balm in Gilead? — tell me — tell me, I implore!
Page 60 - O Lady! we receive but what we give, And in our life alone does Nature live : Ours is her wedding garment, ours her shroud ! And would we aught behold, of higher worth, Than that inanimate cold world allowed To the poor loveless ever-anxious crowd, Ah ! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth...
Page 480 - Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good : Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.
Page 145 - But the Raven still beguiling all my sad soul into smiling, Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird, and bust, and door ; Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore — What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore Meant in croaking "Nevermore.
Page 143 - And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain Thrilled me— filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before; So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating, "* Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door, Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door: This it is and nothing more.
Page 177 - Truth crushed to earth, will rise again ; The eternal years of God are hers: But Error, wounded, writhes in pain, And dies amid her worshippers.
Page 480 - Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Page 387 - Her voice was good, and the ditty fitted for it ; it was that smooth song which was made by Kit Marlow, now at least fifty years ago ; and the milk-maid's mother sung an answer to it, which was made by Sir Walter Raleigh, in his younger days. They were old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good ; I think much better than the strong lines that are now in fashion in this critical age.
Page 185 - What is the cause, Laertes, That thy rebellion looks so giant-like ? Let him go, Gertrude ; do not fear our person ; There's such divinity doth hedge a king, That treason can but peep to what it would, Acts little of his will.
Page 151 - Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil Set off to the world, nor in broad rumour lies, But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes, And perfect witness of all-judging Jove; As he pronounces lastly on each deed, Of so much fame in Heaven expect thy meed.