The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 49Leavitt, Trow, & Company, 1860 - American literature |
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... persons , calculating as if for their lives or perhaps , more stimulating still , as if for their fortunes - and continuing their labors from the Creation up to the present period , to reckon up the quantity contained in two square ...
... persons , calculating as if for their lives or perhaps , more stimulating still , as if for their fortunes - and continuing their labors from the Creation up to the present period , to reckon up the quantity contained in two square ...
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... persons would tell us that at a certain distance from the surface the resistance must become so great that the lead will cease to sink , and that even parted anchors and iron cables must remain in suspension . This fancy rests upon the ...
... persons would tell us that at a certain distance from the surface the resistance must become so great that the lead will cease to sink , and that even parted anchors and iron cables must remain in suspension . This fancy rests upon the ...
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... persons to which his narrative related . Yet sufficient time has elapsed to make the men already public personages . The work has the double advantage of history and biography - the elevation and gravity of the one , with the liveliness ...
... persons to which his narrative related . Yet sufficient time has elapsed to make the men already public personages . The work has the double advantage of history and biography - the elevation and gravity of the one , with the liveliness ...
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... persons to India . They were put patron in one whose name is dear to every ashore , and much of their passage money friend of India . Charles Grant , in an age sacrificed - that precious money , bought of general skepticism and wild ...
... persons to India . They were put patron in one whose name is dear to every ashore , and much of their passage money friend of India . Charles Grant , in an age sacrificed - that precious money , bought of general skepticism and wild ...
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... person of a colleague hot with politics , who abused every authority in India and Eng- land . He was splendidly rebuked by An- drew Fuller , with hearty English feeling and strong English language ; but this could not save the ...
... person of a colleague hot with politics , who abused every authority in India and Eng- land . He was splendidly rebuked by An- drew Fuller , with hearty English feeling and strong English language ; but this could not save the ...
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Page 34 - And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon. Mortals, that would follow me, Love Virtue ; she alone is free. She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her.
Page 32 - In love, if love be love, if love be ours, Faith and unfaith can ne'er be equal powers : Unfaith in aught is want of faith in all. ' " It is the little rift within the lute, That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all.
Page 57 - All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame, All are but ministers of Love, And feed his sacred flame. Oft in my waking dreams do I Live o'er again that happy hour, When midway on the mount I lay, Beside the ruined tower.
Page 35 - I wanted warmth and colour which I found In Lancelot — now I see thee what thou art, Thou art the highest and most human too, Not Lancelot, nor another. Is there none Will tell the King I love him tho
Page 480 - Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God afraid of me: Safe from the Bar, the Pulpit, and the Throne, Yet touched and shamed by ridicule alone.
Page 36 - Let no man dream but that I love thee still. Perchance, and so thou purify thy soul, And so thou lean on our fair father Christ, Hereafter in that world where all are pure We two may meet before high God, and thou Wilt spring to me, and claim me thine, and know; I am thine husband — not a smaller soul, f Nor Lancelot, nor another. Leave me that, I charge thee, my last hope. Now must I hence. Thro...
Page 51 - Horatio, what a wounded name, Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me. If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart, Absent thee from felicity awhile, And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain, To tell my story.
Page 119 - Victoria, by the grace of God Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, saving as aforesaid.
Page 179 - And ofttimes it hath cast him into the fire, and into the waters, to destroy him: but if thou canst do any thing, have compassion on us, and help us.
Page 127 - ... tide They fling their melancholy music wide; Bidding me many a tender thought recall Of summer days, and those delightful years When by my native streams, in life's fair prime, The mournful magic of their mingling chime First waked my wondering childhood into tears! But seeming now, when all those days are o'er, The sounds of joy once heard and heard no more.