The North American Review, Volume 63Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge O. Everett, 1846 - American fiction Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... effect by him who does not intend thus to perform the engagement , or who despairs of doing so . If , before the Marriage takes place , he find the germ of conjugal affection wanting in his heart , the course of Duty is , to withdraw ...
... effect by him who does not intend thus to perform the engagement , or who despairs of doing so . If , before the Marriage takes place , he find the germ of conjugal affection wanting in his heart , the course of Duty is , to withdraw ...
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... effect without the suspicion of mistake or fraud ; and with reference to the landed property of intes- tates , it simply carries out the prevalent idea of rightful de- scent . A state which should depart from this course , and en- act ...
... effect without the suspicion of mistake or fraud ; and with reference to the landed property of intes- tates , it simply carries out the prevalent idea of rightful de- scent . A state which should depart from this course , and en- act ...
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... effects of the war of our Revolution lasted for more than one generation , and were most intensely felt and most deeply deplored by many of those whose sense of duty made them prominent in its counsels and transactions . But if war must ...
... effects of the war of our Revolution lasted for more than one generation , and were most intensely felt and most deeply deplored by many of those whose sense of duty made them prominent in its counsels and transactions . But if war must ...
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... effect the execution of a criminal may have upon the community at large , it is al- ways morally calamitous in its immediate vicinity , outraging the moral sensibility of many , letting loose the fiercest and vilest passions of many ...
... effect the execution of a criminal may have upon the community at large , it is al- ways morally calamitous in its immediate vicinity , outraging the moral sensibility of many , letting loose the fiercest and vilest passions of many ...
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... effect , that present fears are less than " horrible imagin- ings . With this sombre and unearthly hue tinging his ... effects the most pathetic or sublime . The death - scene of the Duchess of Malfy is a grand example . This proud ...
... effect , that present fears are less than " horrible imagin- ings . With this sombre and unearthly hue tinging his ... effects the most pathetic or sublime . The death - scene of the Duchess of Malfy is a grand example . This proud ...
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Page 337 - And he had a son, whose name was Saul, a choice young man and a goodly. And there was not among the children of Israel a goodlier person than he: from his shoulders and upward he was higher than any of the people.
Page 39 - Had fed the feeling of their masters' thoughts, And every sweetness that inspir'd their hearts, Their minds, and muses on admired themes; If all the heavenly quintessence they still From their immortal flowers of poesy, Wherein, as in a mirror, we perceive The highest reaches of a human wit; If these had made one poem's period, And all combin'd in beauty's worthiness, Yet should there hover in their restless heads One thought, one grace, one wonder, at the least, Which into words no virtue can digest.
Page 49 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one (from whence they came) Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life...
Page 43 - Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of Heaven, That time may cease, and midnight never come; Fair Nature's eye, rise, rise again and make Perpetual day; or let this hour be but A year, a month, a week, a natural day, That Faustus may repent and save his soul! O lente, lente, currite noctis equi!
Page 83 - Or painful to his slumbers: easy, light, And as a purling stream, thou son of Night, Pass by his troubled senses: sing his pain Like hollow murmuring wind, or silver rain. Into this prince, gently, oh gently slide; And kiss him into slumbers, like a bride.
Page 63 - ... t fools make such vain keeping? Sin their conception, their birth weeping, Their life a general mist of error, Their death a hideous storm of terror. Strew your hair with powders sweet, Don clean linen, bathe your feet, And (the foul fiend more to check) A crucifix let bless your neck: 'Tis now full tide 'tween night and day; End your groan, and come away.
Page 64 - I'd not be tedious to you. Pull, and pull strongly, for your able strength Must pull down heaven upon me. Yet stay, heaven gates are not so highly arch'd As princes' palaces ; they that enter there Must go upon their knees. Come, violent death, Serve for Mandragora to make me sleep. Go tell my brothers ; when I am laid out, They then may feed in quiet.
Page 44 - Tiger's heart wrapped in a player's hide," supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you ; and, being an absolute Johannes Factotum, is, in his own conceit, the only Shake-scene in a country.
Page 82 - Do my face (If thou had'st ever feeling of a sorrow) Thus, thus, Antiphila : strive to make me look Like Sorrow's monument ; and the trees about me, Let them be dry and leafless ; let the rocks Groan with continual surges ; and behind me, Make all a desolation.