The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 19Leavitt, Trow, & Company, 1850 |
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... Give us corn and grass , and what shall we want for food ? " In the infancy of our race it was needful that na- ture should assimilate our food for us , just as the infant needs its mother's milk . The reason of man has now outgrown his ...
... Give us corn and grass , and what shall we want for food ? " In the infancy of our race it was needful that na- ture should assimilate our food for us , just as the infant needs its mother's milk . The reason of man has now outgrown his ...
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... Give over to us , not the " spirits of wine , " but their aromas . We can make the acid of the lemon , but where is its odorous zephyr We can make the sugar of the honey , but where is its scent sweet as honeysuckle ? We are on the eve ...
... Give over to us , not the " spirits of wine , " but their aromas . We can make the acid of the lemon , but where is its odorous zephyr We can make the sugar of the honey , but where is its scent sweet as honeysuckle ? We are on the eve ...
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... Give , give ! But even Hood's " Song of the Shirt , " with its deep - toned earnestness , cannot prevail to raise the wages of all ; how then should Lord Ashley ? To stem the overwhelming torrent , he proclaims aloud that only " pro ...
... Give , give ! But even Hood's " Song of the Shirt , " with its deep - toned earnestness , cannot prevail to raise the wages of all ; how then should Lord Ashley ? To stem the overwhelming torrent , he proclaims aloud that only " pro ...
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... give free air solve , how the powers of nature shall pro- to the lungs , is attaining , and much more will duce ... gives them must be transacted beneath a roof . Thus , proof , " since Robert Peel abolished the duty as in other things ...
... give free air solve , how the powers of nature shall pro- to the lungs , is attaining , and much more will duce ... gives them must be transacted beneath a roof . Thus , proof , " since Robert Peel abolished the duty as in other things ...
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... give them the fearless , faithful , inherited energies that worked on and down from death to death genera- tion after generation , that we , foul and sensual as we are , might give the carved , work of their poured - out spirit to the ...
... give them the fearless , faithful , inherited energies that worked on and down from death to death genera- tion after generation , that we , foul and sensual as we are , might give the carved , work of their poured - out spirit to the ...
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Page 29 - A made a finer end, and went away an it had been any christom child. A parted even just between twelve and one, even at the turning o' the tide. For after I saw him fumble with the sheets, and play with flowers, and smile upon his fingers...
Page 122 - Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye, That tears shall drown the wind.
Page 128 - She should have died hereafter ; There would have been a time for such a word. To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death.
Page 461 - And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand : and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
Page 124 - Infirm of purpose ! Give me the daggers: the sleeping and the dead Are but as pictures; 'tis the eye of childhood That fears a painted devil.
Page 320 - It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry, but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly they treat it as if, in the present age, this were an agreed point among all people of discernment...
Page 132 - Tis two or three, my lord, that bring you word Macduff is fled to England. Macb. Fled to England ! Len. Ay, my good lord. Macb. Time, thou anticipatest my dread exploits : The flighty purpose never is o'ertook Unless the deed go with it : from this moment The very firstlings of my heart shall be The firstlings of my hand.
Page 86 - I scarcely remember counting upon any Happiness. I look not for it if it be not in the present hour. Nothing startles me beyond the Moment. The setting sun will always set me to rights, or if a Sparrow come before my Window, I take part in its existence and pick about the Gravel.
Page 348 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons; to plunge into the infection of hospitals; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
Page 304 - If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin ; but now they have no cloak for their sin.