The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review, Volume 3Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson Munroe and Francis, 1806 - American literature Vols. 3-4 include appendix: "The Political cabinet." |
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... genius and integrity , of admirable temper , polite manners , and exquisite learning . He pos- sessed , beyond any instructer I ever knew , the faculty of commu- nicating knowledge ; and such was the pleasantry of his deportment , that ...
... genius and integrity , of admirable temper , polite manners , and exquisite learning . He pos- sessed , beyond any instructer I ever knew , the faculty of commu- nicating knowledge ; and such was the pleasantry of his deportment , that ...
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... genius as upon a dunce ; they will take instant of- fence at a critick , who presumes to separate in their works the dry from the nutritious , who acciden tally makes a wry face at what is nauseous , or involuntarily rejects what is ...
... genius as upon a dunce ; they will take instant of- fence at a critick , who presumes to separate in their works the dry from the nutritious , who acciden tally makes a wry face at what is nauseous , or involuntarily rejects what is ...
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... genius of Caracalla made in Alexandria . The Museum was demolished . Under Aurelian the whole of the Bruchion was des- troyed . This emperor took the city and delivered it to the plun der of his soldiers . Theodosius the Great , at last ...
... genius of Caracalla made in Alexandria . The Museum was demolished . Under Aurelian the whole of the Bruchion was des- troyed . This emperor took the city and delivered it to the plun der of his soldiers . Theodosius the Great , at last ...
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... genius of Burns was more sublime , than that of Cowper . Both excelled in the familiar : but yet the latter was by nature as well as education more gentle , more easy , and delicate : he had also more of tenuity , while Burns was more ...
... genius of Burns was more sublime , than that of Cowper . Both excelled in the familiar : but yet the latter was by nature as well as education more gentle , more easy , and delicate : he had also more of tenuity , while Burns was more ...
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... genius could have overcome them . On the contrary , there were some points in the history of Burns more propitious to the bold- er features of poetry , than in that of Cowper . He wrote in the sea- son of youth , when all the passions ...
... genius could have overcome them . On the contrary , there were some points in the history of Burns more propitious to the bold- er features of poetry , than in that of Cowper . He wrote in the sea- son of youth , when all the passions ...
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Page 448 - ... the moon should wander from her beaten way, the times and seasons of the year blend themselves by disordered and confused mixture, the winds breathe out their last gasp, the clouds yield no rain, the earth be defeated of heavenly influence, the fruits of the earth pine away as children at the withered breasts of their mother no longer able to yield them relief; what would become of man himself, whom these things now do all serve...
Page 518 - That day of wrath, .that dreadful day, When heaven and earth shall pass away, What power shall be the sinner's stay ? How shall he meet that dreadful day ? When, shrivelling like a parched scroll, The flaming heavens together roll ; When louder yet, and yet more dread, Swells the high trump that wakes the dead ! Oh ! on that day, that wrathful day, When man to judgment wakes from clay, Be THOU the trembling sinner's stay, Though heaven and earth shall pass away ! HUSH'D is the harp — the Minstrel...
Page 554 - It implied' an inconceivable severity of conviction that he had one thing to do, and that he who would do some great thing in this short life, must apply himself to the work with such a concentration of his forces, as, to idle spectators who live only to amuse themselves, looks like insanity.
Page 515 - IF thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moon-light; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray.
Page 515 - In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding chords along : The present scene, the future lot, His toils, his wants, were all forgot: Cold diffidence, and age's frost, In the full tide of song were lost ; Each blank, in...
Page 189 - O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head ; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies; The conscious swains, rejoicing in the sight. Eye the blue vault, and bless the useful light.
Page 447 - ... should forget their wonted motions, and by irregular volubility turn themselves any way as it might happen; if the prince of the lights of heaven, which now as a giant doth run his unwearied course, should as it were through a languishing faintness begin to stand and to rest himself...
Page 518 - Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ? Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe, go mark him well...
Page 278 - And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people: and he shall be, even he shall be to thee instead of a mouth, and thou shalt be to him instead of God.
Page 335 - In the mean time we did not forget our duty, and though we had a better comedy going, in which Johnson was chief actor, we betook ourselves in good time to our separate and allotted posts, and waited the awful drawing up of the curtain. As our Station...