The Yale Literary Magazine, Volume 13Herrick & Noyes., 1848 |
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... become sick of Cardinal Virtues and Deadly Sins , and long for the society of plain men and women . " Both Spen- ser and Bunyan had two different and optional courses before them . They might confine their scenes to a purely ideal world ...
... become sick of Cardinal Virtues and Deadly Sins , and long for the society of plain men and women . " Both Spen- ser and Bunyan had two different and optional courses before them . They might confine their scenes to a purely ideal world ...
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... becomes at once the ruler and the slave of society , penetrating all its existence , regulating all its movements . It is the conservator of its advancing strength , the sovereign of its daily life . It sends its pulsation , like the ...
... becomes at once the ruler and the slave of society , penetrating all its existence , regulating all its movements . It is the conservator of its advancing strength , the sovereign of its daily life . It sends its pulsation , like the ...
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... becomes easier — its friction less severe in other words , as the weight is increased , the burden is diminished ; as it circulates farther from the central heart , it flows with more strength and freedom through its arteries . Law is ...
... becomes easier — its friction less severe in other words , as the weight is increased , the burden is diminished ; as it circulates farther from the central heart , it flows with more strength and freedom through its arteries . Law is ...
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... becoming the head of a tribe or clan , the patriarchal age commenced ; so that from the family to the community was but a single step . As the race continued to increase , the tribe soon rose into the nation , and the patriarch , in ...
... becoming the head of a tribe or clan , the patriarchal age commenced ; so that from the family to the community was but a single step . As the race continued to increase , the tribe soon rose into the nation , and the patriarch , in ...
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... become monarchical and arbitrary in their character , unless they fall under a foreign despotism , before a domestic tyranny can arise . The history of the world is one continued illus- tration of this truth . It results from the very ...
... become monarchical and arbitrary in their character , unless they fall under a foreign despotism , before a domestic tyranny can arise . The history of the world is one continued illus- tration of this truth . It results from the very ...
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Page 336 - THE measure is English heroic verse without rime, as that of Homer in Greek, and of Virgil in Latin, — rime being no necessary adjunct or true ornament of poem or good verse, in longer works especially, but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre...
Page 349 - Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if thou hast understanding.
Page 154 - So spake the cherub; and his grave rebuke, Severe in youthful beauty, added grace Invincible: abash'd the devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is, and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely; saw, and pined His loss: but chiefly to find here observed His lustre visibly impair'd; yet seem'd Undaunted. If I must contend...
Page 122 - With mazy error under pendent shades Ran nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flowers worthy of Paradise; which not nice art In beds and curious knots, but nature boon Poured forth profuse on hill and dale and plain...
Page 126 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...
Page 338 - Awake, /Eolian lyre, awake, And give to rapture all thy trembling strings. From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take ; The laughing flowers, that round them blow, Drink life and fragrance as they flow. Now the rich stream of music winds along, Deep, majestic, smooth, and strong, Through verdant vales, and Ceres...
Page 341 - Then the dukes of Edom shall be amazed; the mighty men of Moab, trembling shall take hold upon them; all the inhabitants of Canaan shall melt away.
Page 192 - ... graves is speechless too, it says nothing, it distinguishes nothing: as soon the dust of a wretch whom thou wouldest not, as of a prince whom thou couldest not look upon, will trouble thine eyes, if the wind blow it thither; and when a whirl-wind hath blown the dust of the churchyard into the church, and the man sweeps out the dust of the church into the churchyard, who will undertake to sift those dusts again, and to pronounce, This is the patrician, this is the noble flour, and this the yeomanly,...
Page 171 - House ; whose errand was only to give us knowledge of the affairs and state of those countries to which they were designed, and especially of the sciences, arts, manufactures, and inventions of all the world; and withal to bring unto us books, instruments, and patterns in every kind...
Page 379 - Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be transmitted to the -family of the deceased, and that they be spread upon the records of this society.