Essays from the North American ReviewAllen Thorndike Rice D. Appleton, 1879 - 482 páginas |
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... story of the wars and revolutions of Eu- rope . But that of Cowper , gliding away in the seclusion of rural solitude , reflects all those domestic joys , and , alas ! more than the sorrows , which gather round every man's fire- side and ...
... story of the wars and revolutions of Eu- rope . But that of Cowper , gliding away in the seclusion of rural solitude , reflects all those domestic joys , and , alas ! more than the sorrows , which gather round every man's fire- side and ...
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... stories , generally bordering on the marvelous , with a plentiful seasoning of knight- errantry , which suited his ... story . " Jamie was , indeed , destined to sit beside him during the greater part of his life . The same tastes and ...
... stories , generally bordering on the marvelous , with a plentiful seasoning of knight- errantry , which suited his ... story . " Jamie was , indeed , destined to sit beside him during the greater part of his life . The same tastes and ...
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... in assiduous attendance during the regu- lar terms , but more noted for his stories in the Outer House , than his arguments in court . It may appear singular that a person so gifted , both as a writer and SIR WALTER SCOTT . 13.
... in assiduous attendance during the regu- lar terms , but more noted for his stories in the Outer House , than his arguments in court . It may appear singular that a person so gifted , both as a writer and SIR WALTER SCOTT . 13.
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... story . " I can not tell how the truth may be , I say the tale as ' twas said to me , " says the author of the " Lay , " on a similar occasion . The resemblance might be traced much further than mere forms of expression , to the Italian ...
... story . " I can not tell how the truth may be , I say the tale as ' twas said to me , " says the author of the " Lay , " on a similar occasion . The resemblance might be traced much further than mere forms of expression , to the Italian ...
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... story into her actually turning the reviewer out of doors . He well deserved it . The affair , however , led to important consequences . Scott was not slow after this in finding the political princi- ples of the " Edinburgh " so ...
... story into her actually turning the reviewer out of doors . He well deserved it . The affair , however , led to important consequences . Scott was not slow after this in finding the political princi- ples of the " Edinburgh " so ...
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Página 107 - But to return to our own institute; besides these constant exercises at home, there is another opportunity of gaining experience to be won from pleasure itself abroad; in those vernal seasons of the year when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature, not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.
Página 113 - Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart: Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea: Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay.
Página 73 - She openeth her mouth with wisdom, and in her tongue is the law of kindness. She looketh well to the ways of her household and eateth not the bread of idleness. Her children arise up and call her blessed, her husband also, and he praiseth her.
Página 105 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Página 321 - midst its dreary dells, Whose walls more awful nod By thy religious gleams. Or if chill blustering winds, or driving rain, Prevent my willing feet, be mine the hut, That from the mountain's side, Views wilds, and swelling floods, And hamlets brown, and dim-discovered spires, And hears their simple bell, and marks o'er all Thy dewy fingers draw The gradual dusky veil.
Página 93 - Never, never more, shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom.
Página 73 - She is not afraid of the snow for her household, for all her household are clothed with scarlet. She maketh herself coverings of tapestry, her clothing is silk and purple.
Página 322 - Hark! hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings, And Phoebus 'gins arise, His steeds to water at those springs On chaliced flowers that lies; And winking Mary-buds begin To ope their golden eyes; With everything that pretty bin : My lady sweet, arise! Arise! arise!
Página 322 - But who the melodies of morn can tell ? — The wild brook babbling down the mountain side ; The lowing herd ; the sheepfold's simple bell ; The pipe of early shepherd dim descried In the lone valley ; echoing far and wide, The clamorous horn along the cliffs above ; The hollow murmur of the ocean-tide ; The hum of bees ; the linnet's lay of love ; And the full choir that wakes the universal grove.
Página 417 - Thus conscience does make cowards of us all, And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, And enterprises of great pitch and moment With this regard their currents turn awry And lose the name of action.