The Yale Literary Magazine, Volume 13Herrick & Noyes., 1848 |
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... " But , my lord , " said a peasant standing by , “ when the devil gets the prince , what will become of the archbishop ? " it . midst of privation , is the strongest possible 26 [ Nov. HEADLEY'S NAPOLEON AND HIS MARSHALS .
... " But , my lord , " said a peasant standing by , “ when the devil gets the prince , what will become of the archbishop ? " it . midst of privation , is the strongest possible 26 [ Nov. HEADLEY'S NAPOLEON AND HIS MARSHALS .
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... stands still . The air was hot and sulphurous - dark and lurid thunder - clouds were lifting heavily above the horizon , and the deep hush of that assaulting column was rendered more awful by the hush of nature , which betokened the ...
... stands still . The air was hot and sulphurous - dark and lurid thunder - clouds were lifting heavily above the horizon , and the deep hush of that assaulting column was rendered more awful by the hush of nature , which betokened the ...
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... stands in its classic beauty , a monument of his wealth , his name will never be forgotten . A slight sketch of the life of a man who has founded an institution calculated to exercise a great influence either for good or evil on the ...
... stands in its classic beauty , a monument of his wealth , his name will never be forgotten . A slight sketch of the life of a man who has founded an institution calculated to exercise a great influence either for good or evil on the ...
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... standing , and Death cut him down almost as soon as he com- menced his course . But we had seen him enough to learn to value his many excel- lent qualities , and to confidently cherish the belief , that his career would be honorable to ...
... standing , and Death cut him down almost as soon as he com- menced his course . But we had seen him enough to learn to value his many excel- lent qualities , and to confidently cherish the belief , that his career would be honorable to ...
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... stands another , hardly inferior , and following close upon a resemblance to them , though bred in a different soil , but , indeed , by the hand of Virgil , the greatest of Roman gardeners . A fourth , still similar , and more sublime ...
... stands another , hardly inferior , and following close upon a resemblance to them , though bred in a different soil , but , indeed , by the hand of Virgil , the greatest of Roman gardeners . A fourth , still similar , and more sublime ...
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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.