The North American Review, Volume 50Jared Sparks, James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett, Henry Cabot Lodge O. Everett, 1840 - American fiction Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... seen , the tradition- ary music was lost . In the latter it was in some degree , at least , preserved ; and was inherited , perhaps , from the re- motest antiquity . For many centuries music in Italy was only preserved by the Christian ...
... seen , the tradition- ary music was lost . In the latter it was in some degree , at least , preserved ; and was inherited , perhaps , from the re- motest antiquity . For many centuries music in Italy was only preserved by the Christian ...
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... seen , took music under its peculiar patronage . Music , like the other fine arts in Italy , was the offspring of enthusiasm and a romantic spirit , united with civilization , refinement , and wealth . In The case was entirely different ...
... seen , took music under its peculiar patronage . Music , like the other fine arts in Italy , was the offspring of enthusiasm and a romantic spirit , united with civilization , refinement , and wealth . In The case was entirely different ...
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... seen the Odeon crowded at these concerts , and have listened to the truly magnificent perform- ances of native musicians , collected or reared by the Acad- emy , that the art was indeed prospering among us . And what are the pieces ...
... seen the Odeon crowded at these concerts , and have listened to the truly magnificent perform- ances of native musicians , collected or reared by the Acad- emy , that the art was indeed prospering among us . And what are the pieces ...
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... seen it tried , ) that any boat is furnished with the patent safety - valve , or supplied with life- preservers ; another lying alongside , which has proved the faster in a trial of speed , leaves port crowded , while the empty cabin of ...
... seen it tried , ) that any boat is furnished with the patent safety - valve , or supplied with life- preservers ; another lying alongside , which has proved the faster in a trial of speed , leaves port crowded , while the empty cabin of ...
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... seen the place where a large boat sank , after being made fast to the shore , indicated only by remnants of the lines by which she was fastened to the trees . Next , perhaps , in point of frequency and danger , on the list of casualties ...
... seen the place where a large boat sank , after being made fast to the shore , indicated only by remnants of the lines by which she was fastened to the trees . Next , perhaps , in point of frequency and danger , on the list of casualties ...
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Page 268 - And with them the Being Beauteous, Who unto my youth was given, More than all things else to love me, And is now a saint in heaven. With a slow and noiseless footstep Comes that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine. And she sits and gazes at me With those deep and tender eyes, Like the stars, so still and saint-like, Looking downward from the skies.
Page 191 - O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.
Page 341 - God, and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the Colony unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.
Page 267 - When the hours of Day are numbered, And the voices of the Night Wake the better soul, that slumbered, To a holy, calm delight ; Ere the evening lamps are lighted, And, like phantoms grim and tall, Shadows from the fitful fire-light Dance upon the parlour wall; Then the forms of the departed Enter at the open door ; The beloved, the true-hearted, Come to visit me once more...
Page 369 - Few sorrows hath she of her own, My hope! my joy! my Genevieve! She loves me best whene'er I sing The songs that make her grieve.
Page 291 - FOX. 3s. 6d. * HISTORY OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH ; from the Ascension of Jesus Christ to the Conversion of Constantine. By the late Rev.
Page 504 - I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her siren daughters...
Page 267 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Page 266 - Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! — For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem.
Page 133 - ... to the vessels, citizens, and subjects of the two Powers: it being well understood, that this agreement is not to be construed...