Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volume 50John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele Leavitt, Throw and Company, 1860 - American periodicals |
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... English Epic of the Ninth Century , 139 Galileo , 144 Erasmus as a Satirist - North British Review , 120 Hunt , Leigh , Louis XVI . , 561 133 Europe , the State of - North British Review , 367 G Macaulay , Thomas Babington , 369 · Peel ...
... English Epic of the Ninth Century , 139 Galileo , 144 Erasmus as a Satirist - North British Review , 120 Hunt , Leigh , Louis XVI . , 561 133 Europe , the State of - North British Review , 367 G Macaulay , Thomas Babington , 369 · Peel ...
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... English History - Fraser's Maga- • zine , Revolutions in English History - Dublin Univer- sity Magazine , 86 Richard III . and the Duke of Buckingham , Romish Bishops , 132 116 Russia , Prince Dolgoroukow's - Colburn's New Monthly , 516 ...
... English History - Fraser's Maga- • zine , Revolutions in English History - Dublin Univer- sity Magazine , 86 Richard III . and the Duke of Buckingham , Romish Bishops , 132 116 Russia , Prince Dolgoroukow's - Colburn's New Monthly , 516 ...
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... English poet | The perfect knowledge we have of the whose works are so frequently reprinted as those of Cowper . His literary excel- lence has won him thousands of readers who cared little for his piety , and his piety has recommended ...
... English poet | The perfect knowledge we have of the whose works are so frequently reprinted as those of Cowper . His literary excel- lence has won him thousands of readers who cared little for his piety , and his piety has recommended ...
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... acquired a keen relish for English literature , that when he was only fourteen he read Milton , never an easy author , with rapturous delight : • air of a divine interposition . " He stopped 4 [ April , LIFE AND WORKS OF WILLIAM COWPER .
... acquired a keen relish for English literature , that when he was only fourteen he read Milton , never an easy author , with rapturous delight : • air of a divine interposition . " He stopped 4 [ April , LIFE AND WORKS OF WILLIAM COWPER .
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... English landscapes , and Eng lish winters , were subjects which , when touched by the hand of a master , appealed to the experience of millions . It added to the charm that the author spoke in his own name , and thus gave life and ...
... English landscapes , and Eng lish winters , were subjects which , when touched by the hand of a master , appealed to the experience of millions . It added to the charm that the author spoke in his own name , and thus gave life and ...
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Page 48 - And hark ! like the roar of the billows on the shore, The cry of battle rises along their charging line: For God! for the Cause! for the Church! for the Laws! For Charles, King of England, and Rupert of the Rhine! The furious German comes, with his clarions and his drums, His bravoes of Alsatia, and pages of Whitehall; They are bursting on our flanks! Grasp your pikes! Close your ranks!
Page 298 - But, hark! the cry is Astur: And lo ! the ranks divide ; And the great lord of Luna Comes with his stately stride. Upon his ample shoulders Clangs loud the fourfold shield, And in his hand he shakes the brand Which none but he can wield.
Page 2 - My boast is not that I deduce my birth From loins enthroned, and rulers of the earth; But higher far my proud pretensions rise,— The son of parents passed into the skies!
Page 44 - Hence in a season of calm weather, Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.
Page 525 - My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard. "Thus fares it still in our decay: And yet the wiser mind Mourns less for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind.
Page 474 - twere anew, the gaps of centuries ; Leaving that beautiful which still was so, And making that which was not, till the place Became religion, and the heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old ! — The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns.
Page 539 - God hath chosen the weak things of this world to confound the things which are mighty...
Page 298 - Then, whirling up his broadsword With both hands to the height, He rushed against Horatius, And smote with all his might. With shield and blade Horatius Right deftly turned the blow: The blow, though turned, came yet too nigh; It missed his helm, but gashed his thigh : The Tuscans raised a joyful cry To see the red blood flow.
Page 535 - Thou madst us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless till they find rest in Thee ! ' You are beginning to understand that St.
Page 5 - They whose spirits are formed like mine, to whom a public exhibition of themselves, on any occasion, is mortal poison, may have some idea of the horrors of my situation; others can have none.