The Literary and Scientific Repository, and Critical Review, Volume 1Wiley and Halsted, 1820 |
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... politicians , cast mistresses , and no- torious malefactors . Having thus acknowledged the dispensing power of our ... political and military . I. His birth , parentage and education . Under this head , the author has shown a very ...
... politicians , cast mistresses , and no- torious malefactors . Having thus acknowledged the dispensing power of our ... political and military . I. His birth , parentage and education . Under this head , the author has shown a very ...
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... politics , as well as in tobacco ; sustaining no public character , and professing the inten- tion of eventually making himself a Spanish subject , his suppos- ed defection was not seriously regarded.c It has been remarked , that men ...
... politics , as well as in tobacco ; sustaining no public character , and professing the inten- tion of eventually making himself a Spanish subject , his suppos- ed defection was not seriously regarded.c It has been remarked , that men ...
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... political game in Tennessee , and that the merits so well known to him , meant only Adair's electioneering ability . Unfor- tunately for this interpretation , neither Tennessee , nor the election , nor Congress , nor political standing ...
... political game in Tennessee , and that the merits so well known to him , meant only Adair's electioneering ability . Unfor- tunately for this interpretation , neither Tennessee , nor the election , nor Congress , nor political standing ...
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... political finesse and military stratagem . I * must hold out false colours , conceal my designs , and cheat my ad- ' versaries into a state of security , so that when I do strike , it may ' be with more force and effect . " 6 But ...
... political finesse and military stratagem . I * must hold out false colours , conceal my designs , and cheat my ad- ' versaries into a state of security , so that when I do strike , it may ' be with more force and effect . " 6 But ...
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... political services , they regard those services to the cause of liberty , as no small aggravation of the principal offence . Measures for restraining newspapers , ac- cordingly , are hailed by our alarmists , as eminently wholesome ...
... political services , they regard those services to the cause of liberty , as no small aggravation of the principal offence . Measures for restraining newspapers , ac- cordingly , are hailed by our alarmists , as eminently wholesome ...
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Page 347 - Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other. Mountains interposed, Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one.
Page 425 - tis the soul of peace ; Of all the virtues 'tis nearest kin to heaven ; It makes men look like gods. The best of men That e'er wore earth about him was a sufferer, A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit, The first true gentleman that ever breath'd.
Page 230 - Marred his repose, the influxes of sense, And his own being unalloyed by pain, Yet feebler and more feeble, calmly fed The stream of thought, till he lay breathing there At peace, and faintly smiling : his last sight Was the great moon, which o'er the western line Of the wide world her mighty horn suspended, With whose dun beams inwoven darkness seemed To mingle.
Page 178 - ... on every fresh value that is added to it by the industry of man — taxes on the sauce which pampers man's appetite, and the drug that restores him to health — on the ermine which decorates the judge, and the rope which hangs the criminal — on the poor man's salt, and the rich man's spice — on the brass nails of the coffin, and the ribands of the bride — at bed or board, couchant or levant, we must pay.
Page 410 - Ancient of days ! august Athena ! where, Where are thy men of might ? thy grand in soul ? Gone — glimmering through the dream of things that were...
Page 228 - Thou hast a home, Beautiful bird, thou voyagest to thine home, Where thy sweet mate will twine her downy neck With thine, and welcome thy return with eyes Bright in the lustre of their own fond joy. And what am I that I should linger here With voice far sweeter than thy dying notes, Spirit more vast than thine, frame more attuned To beauty, wasting these surpassing powers In the deaf air, to the blind earth, and heaven That echoes not my thoughts?
Page 180 - In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book ? or goes to an American play ? or looks at an American picture or statue?
Page 230 - Of the vast meteor sunk, the Poet's blood, That ever beat in mystic sympathy With Nature's ebb and flow, grew feebler still. And, when two lessening points of light alone Gleamed through the darkness, the alternate gasp Of his faint respiration scarce did stir The stagnate night — till the minutest ray Was quenched, the pulse yet lingered in his heart. It paused — it fluttered. But, when heaven remained Utterly black, the murky shades involved An image silent, cold, and motionless, As their own...
Page 231 - How wonderful is Death, Death, and his brother Sleep ! One, pale as yonder waning moon With lips of lurid blue ; The other, rosy as the morn When throned on ocean's wave It blushes o'er the world : Yet both so passing wonderful...
Page 96 - Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made: But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.