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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To a man of any moral feeling , or even of any natural feeling , the remorse of
having done such a wrong , by the promise of affection and livelong
companionship , must be intense . And his shame also must be profound : for he
may be ...
To a man of any moral feeling , or even of any natural feeling , the remorse of
having done such a wrong , by the promise of affection and livelong
companionship , must be intense . And his shame also must be profound : for he
may be ...
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He is the impersonation of a lofty , daring , self - centred soul , feeling within itself
a right to achieve the mightiest objects of human pursuit , and reposing with a
proud confidence on the sense of its own power and dignity . His feeling is Titanic
...
He is the impersonation of a lofty , daring , self - centred soul , feeling within itself
a right to achieve the mightiest objects of human pursuit , and reposing with a
proud confidence on the sense of its own power and dignity . His feeling is Titanic
...
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... are continually growing stronger to assert them , and after various failures and
successes , are able to establish the point of great concern , that the elevation of
the one shall be reconciled with the feeling and welfare of the many , instead of ...
... are continually growing stronger to assert them , and after various failures and
successes , are able to establish the point of great concern , that the elevation of
the one shall be reconciled with the feeling and welfare of the many , instead of ...
Page 365
But it was with a feeling of surprise and not of dissatisfaction that he heard her
voice . He - good youth — regarding Conattee as one of the very worthiest of the
Catawba warriors , seemed to have been impressed with an idea that such also ...
But it was with a feeling of surprise and not of dissatisfaction that he heard her
voice . He - good youth — regarding Conattee as one of the very worthiest of the
Catawba warriors , seemed to have been impressed with an idea that such also ...
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he had killed and eaten it , and which we cannot but regard as creditable to his
sense and feeling . Some injury has been done to the memory of Luther by those
who plead in excuse for violence and denunciation that Luther did the same thing
...
he had killed and eaten it , and which we cannot but regard as creditable to his
sense and feeling . Some injury has been done to the memory of Luther by those
who plead in excuse for violence and denunciation that Luther did the same thing
...
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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.
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| Title | The North American Review, Volume 63 Volumes 181-183 of American periodical series, 1800-1850 Library of American civilization |
| Editors | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge |
| Publisher | O. Everett, 1846 |
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