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 102
The combs of bees are always at an uniform distance from each other , namely ,
about one third of an inch , which is just wide enough to allow them to pass easily
and have access to the young brood . On the approach of winter , when their ...
The combs of bees are always at an uniform distance from each other , namely ,
about one third of an inch , which is just wide enough to allow them to pass easily
and have access to the young brood . On the approach of winter , when their ...
Page 156
... and accidental may be set aside in the general estimate of its power to engage
the interest of hearers or readers ; and so it has come to pass , that , in the long
procession of the ages , the Homeric poetry , amidst the altered relations of the ...
... and accidental may be set aside in the general estimate of its power to engage
the interest of hearers or readers ; and so it has come to pass , that , in the long
procession of the ages , the Homeric poetry , amidst the altered relations of the ...
Page 231
The ethnography of Northwestern America we must pass over , in order to say a
few words upon the philological part of Mr . Hale ' s great work , — merely
alluding , by the way , to the hypothesis , that the hordes which at different
periods ...
The ethnography of Northwestern America we must pass over , in order to say a
few words upon the philological part of Mr . Hale ' s great work , — merely
alluding , by the way , to the hypothesis , that the hordes which at different
periods ...
Page 255
We have already made a passing reference to that just point of view whence the
fathers of Massachusetts are to be ... of willing members and governed by laws of
their own making , will pass for the spirit which their adversaries attribute to ...
We have already made a passing reference to that just point of view whence the
fathers of Massachusetts are to be ... of willing members and governed by laws of
their own making , will pass for the spirit which their adversaries attribute to ...
Page 491
Some years after , in 1827 , when passing through the Tuscarora reserve , on my
way to the wilderness , I stopped opposite his log cabin , and walked up to see
the old chief . I found him engaged drying fish . After the usual greeting , I asked if
...
Some years after , in 1827 , when passing through the Tuscarora reserve , on my
way to the wilderness , I stopped opposite his log cabin , and walked up to see
the old chief . I found him engaged drying fish . After the usual greeting , I asked if
...
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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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