The American Monthly Magazine, Volume 1; Volume 7M. Bancroft, J. Wiley, and G. and C. and H. Carvill, 1836 - American literature |
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... idea of being one , there was a season of scarcity in the Western District , where he lived . He went up the Mississippi , and bought a flat boat load of corn , and took it to what he calls " his old stamping ground . " When a man came ...
... idea of being one , there was a season of scarcity in the Western District , where he lived . He went up the Mississippi , and bought a flat boat load of corn , and took it to what he calls " his old stamping ground . " When a man came ...
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... ideas of Shakspeare who has not been ac- customed to study them as a teacher of morals · the first of the capa- cities in which I have looked up to him since , in my career of life , I have passed the third of his seven ages . As a ...
... ideas of Shakspeare who has not been ac- customed to study them as a teacher of morals · the first of the capa- cities in which I have looked up to him since , in my career of life , I have passed the third of his seven ages . As a ...
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... idea of visiting the isolated sanctum of a votary of sculpture to one who was fresh from the stir- ring atmosphere of his native metropolis . Traversing the court and stairway , I could but scan the huge fragments of marble that lined ...
... idea of visiting the isolated sanctum of a votary of sculpture to one who was fresh from the stir- ring atmosphere of his native metropolis . Traversing the court and stairway , I could but scan the huge fragments of marble that lined ...
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... posterity -to embody an idea , sentiment , or theory , dear to man - whether it be in the flexible frame - work of language , or the glowing delineation of the pencil , or whether he " fix thought , heart , soul , mind , GREENOUGH . 55.
... posterity -to embody an idea , sentiment , or theory , dear to man - whether it be in the flexible frame - work of language , or the glowing delineation of the pencil , or whether he " fix thought , heart , soul , mind , GREENOUGH . 55.
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... idea may be formed from the translations already made from their most celebrat- ed works . These we shall consequently leave in the hands of their present translators . But there are a thousand tales , sketches , stories , songs , and ...
... idea may be formed from the translations already made from their most celebrat- ed works . These we shall consequently leave in the hands of their present translators . But there are a thousand tales , sketches , stories , songs , and ...
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Page 144 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks : methinks I see her as an eagle, mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
Page 212 - The wealthy curled darlings of our nation, Would ever have, to incur a general mock, Run from her guardage to the sooty bosom Of such a thing as thou, — to fear, not to delight.
Page 213 - In following him, I follow but myself; Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty, But seeming so, for my peculiar end : For when my outward action doth demonstrate The native act and figure of my heart In compliment extern, 'tis not long after But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at : I am not what I am.
Page 304 - I SAW him once before As he passed by the door, And again. The pavement stones resound As he totters o'er the ground With his cane. They say that in his prime Ere the pruning-knife of time Cut him down, Not a better man was found By the crier on his round Through the town. But now he walks the streets And he looks at all he meets So forlorn, And he shakes his feeble head, That it seems as if he said,
Page 144 - Truth indeed came once into the world with her Divine Master, and was a perfect shape most glorious to look on : but when he ascended, and his Apostles after him were laid asleep, then straight arose a wicked race of deceivers, who, as that story goes of the Egyptian Typhon with his conspirators, how they dealt with the good Osiris, took the virgin Truth, hewed her lovely form into a thou,sand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds. From that time ever since, the sad friends of Truth...
Page 144 - Osiris, took the virgin Truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds. From that time ever since, the sad friends of Truth, such as durst appear, imitating the careful search that Isis made for the mangled body of Osiris, went up and down gathering up limb by limb still as they could find them.
Page 146 - I know they are as lively and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth ; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. " And yet on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself; kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
Page 144 - We have not yet found them all lords and commons, nor ever shall do, till her master's second coming; he shall bring together every joint and member, and shall mould them into an immortal feature of loveliness and perfection.
Page 145 - If we think to regulate printing thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all recreations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man. No music must be heard, no song be set or sung, but what is grave and Doric. There must be licensing dancers, that no gesture, motion, or deportment be taught our youth, but what by their allowance shall be thought honest; for such Plato was provided of. It will ask more than the work of twenty licensers to examine all the lutes, the violins, and the...
Page 304 - And if I should live to be The last leaf upon the tree In the spring, Let them smile, as I do now, At the old forsaken bough Where I cling.