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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Page 124
Condé had silenced all remonstrance against the bold step he was taking , by
declaring that all the consequences should be upon his own head . He slept so
soundly at night , that they were obliged to wake him in the morning . Instead of a
...
Condé had silenced all remonstrance against the bold step he was taking , by
declaring that all the consequences should be upon his own head . He slept so
soundly at night , that they were obliged to wake him in the morning . Instead of a
...
Page 127
Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge. who
had never seen the sea . Still , his private discontents were forgotten in his
passion for glory ; and in 1648 , he was at the head of an army , opposed to the
Austrian ...
Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge. who
had never seen the sea . Still , his private discontents were forgotten in his
passion for glory ; and in 1648 , he was at the head of an army , opposed to the
Austrian ...
Page 217
In case of a three - fold division , not only will the tail produce a head and the
head a tail , but a head will grow from one ... Continuing his experiments ,
Trembley found that " two polyps may be made to change heads , for the head of
one may ...
In case of a three - fold division , not only will the tail produce a head and the
head a tail , but a head will grow from one ... Continuing his experiments ,
Trembley found that " two polyps may be made to change heads , for the head of
one may ...
Page 375
A dreadful mound , it rose conspicuous , like a beacon , upon the head - land of
St . Helena ; he , the centre , with his head alone free , and his eyes compelled to
survey all the terrible preparations which were making for his doom . Layers of ...
A dreadful mound , it rose conspicuous , like a beacon , upon the head - land of
St . Helena ; he , the centre , with his head alone free , and his eyes compelled to
survey all the terrible preparations which were making for his doom . Layers of ...
Page 444
In a single year , the great head of the church had dwindled to a temporal prince ;
just so far as strength or policy would avail , his power would reach ; beyond that
narrow . limit , it was no longer able to go . There is no passage in all history ...
In a single year , the great head of the church had dwindled to a temporal prince ;
just so far as strength or policy would avail , his power would reach ; beyond that
narrow . limit , it was no longer able to go . There is no passage in all history ...
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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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