The American Monthly Magazine and Critical Review, Volume 1H. Biglow, Orville Luther Holley H. Bigelow, Esq., editor and proprietor, 1817 - American literature |
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... considerable poetical work , THE CONQUEST OF CANAAN , the au- for the length of our extracts from so was commenced at the age of nine- interesting a biography . We have co- teen , and finished during his residence pied no more of it ...
... considerable poetical work , THE CONQUEST OF CANAAN , the au- for the length of our extracts from so was commenced at the age of nine- interesting a biography . We have co- teen , and finished during his residence pied no more of it ...
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... considerable degree of food , sleep , and while the sentences were written down , ease , his mind has seemed almost to and rarely wished any other aid in triumph over the decays of his body , preserving the connexion than the and he has ...
... considerable degree of food , sleep , and while the sentences were written down , ease , his mind has seemed almost to and rarely wished any other aid in triumph over the decays of his body , preserving the connexion than the and he has ...
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... considerable extent upon the contents of the chapters . On Friday he was , in a degree , relieved from the stupor ; but the man- ' He continued the conversation with ner in which his disease affected his brain , a friend who came , and ...
... considerable extent upon the contents of the chapters . On Friday he was , in a degree , relieved from the stupor ; but the man- ' He continued the conversation with ner in which his disease affected his brain , a friend who came , and ...
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... considerable fall : for Sidi Hamet between the two before - mentioned having spent six days in passing the ridges of mountains : the waters thus mountains , came again near the river , accumulated and pent up , at length which was then ...
... considerable fall : for Sidi Hamet between the two before - mentioned having spent six days in passing the ridges of mountains : the waters thus mountains , came again near the river , accumulated and pent up , at length which was then ...
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... considerable part of the first vo sert his personal dignity and indepen- lume of these memoirs is devoted to dence of mind . Colonel Hamilton re- tracing military movements in the late tired from Head - Quarters , but was ap- pointed to ...
... considerable part of the first vo sert his personal dignity and indepen- lume of these memoirs is devoted to dence of mind . Colonel Hamilton re- tracing military movements in the late tired from Head - Quarters , but was ap- pointed to ...
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Page 10 - At intervals, some bird from out the brakes Starts into voice a moment, then is still. There seems a floating whisper on the hill, But that is fancy, for the starlight dews All silently their tears of love instil, Weeping themselves away, till they infuse Deep into Nature's breast the spirit of her hues.
Page 296 - No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face of the dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow.
Page 296 - We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow! Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him — But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him.
Page 296 - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest With his martial cloak around him.
Page 296 - Oh ! when a Mother meets on high The Babe she lost in infancy, Hath she not then, for pains and fears, The day of woe, the watchful night, For all her sorrow, all her tears, An over-payment of delight...
Page 349 - Nor look'd upon the earth with human eyes ; The thirst of their ambition was not mine, The aim of their existence was not mine ; My joys, my griefs, my passions, and my powers, Made me a stranger ; though I wore the form, I had no sympathy with breathing flesh, Nor midst the creatures of clay that girded me Was there but one who but of her anon.
Page 9 - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street; On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet But hark!
Page 296 - Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory.
Page 349 - Or to look, list'ning, on the scattered leaves, While Autumn winds were at their evening song. These were my pastimes, and to be alone ; For if the beings, of whom I was one, — Hating to be so, — cross'd me in my path, I felt myself degraded back to them, And was all clay again.
Page 422 - I stoop not to despair; For I have battled with mine agony, And made me wings wherewith to overfly The narrow circus of my dungeon wall...