The North American Review, Volume 91O. Everett, 1860 Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... narrative of it is very curious , and came finally to Bath , on the Pamlico River , where he established his head - quarters . In 1711 he was the Surveyor - General of North Carolina . This office demanded skill , energy , integrity ...
... narrative of it is very curious , and came finally to Bath , on the Pamlico River , where he established his head - quarters . In 1711 he was the Surveyor - General of North Carolina . This office demanded skill , energy , integrity ...
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It is brought substantially to a close with a scanty narrative of " the Regulators ' war , " and of the fight at Alamance in 1771 ; and does not pretend to give a sketch even of the causes and events which introduced the Revolution . Of ...
It is brought substantially to a close with a scanty narrative of " the Regulators ' war , " and of the fight at Alamance in 1771 ; and does not pretend to give a sketch even of the causes and events which introduced the Revolution . Of ...
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... narrative comes down no later than the Declaration of Inde- pendence . The volume by Joseph Seawell Jones , " Defence of North Carolina , " ( Raleigh , 1834 , ) though written in a very sprightly and vigorous style , and entirely ...
... narrative comes down no later than the Declaration of Inde- pendence . The volume by Joseph Seawell Jones , " Defence of North Carolina , " ( Raleigh , 1834 , ) though written in a very sprightly and vigorous style , and entirely ...
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... narratives of many encounters between the Whigs and Tories , which he has procured from the actors , or culled from the newspapers of the day , and which , though they may make a slight figure in a general history , are matters which ...
... narratives of many encounters between the Whigs and Tories , which he has procured from the actors , or culled from the newspapers of the day , and which , though they may make a slight figure in a general history , are matters which ...
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... narrative . We do not like to have the notes thus thrust upon us , and choose to be left to our own discretion when to read them , as well as whether to read them at all . We notice with more regret , that throughout these narratives ...
... narrative . We do not like to have the notes thus thrust upon us , and choose to be left to our own discretion when to read them , as well as whether to read them at all . We notice with more regret , that throughout these narratives ...
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Página 379 - Go, lovely Rose ! Tell her, that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Tell her that's young And shuns to have her graces spied, That hadst thou sprung In deserts, where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died. Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired: Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desired, And not blush so to be admired.
Página 536 - Thus was this place, A happy rural seat of various view : Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm ; Others whose fruit, burnished with golden rind, Hung amiable — Hesperian fables true, If true, here only — and of delicious taste.
Página 532 - Aonian mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme. And chiefly Thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for Thou know'st ; Thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread Dovelike satst brooding on the vast abyss...
Página 535 - The one seemed woman to the waist, and fair, But ended foul in many a scaly fold, Voluminous and vast — a serpent armed With mortal sting.
Página 532 - Of Man's First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe...
Página 398 - With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean; Unbribed, unsought, the wretched to redress, Swift of despatch, and easy of access. Oh! had he been content to serve the crown With virtues only proper to the gown; Or had the rankness of the soil been freed...
Página 375 - He doubtless praised some whom he would have been afraid to marry, and perhaps married one whom he would have been ashamed to praise. Many qualities contribute to domestic happiness, upon which poetry has no colours to bestow ; and many airs and sallies may delight imagination, which he who flatters them never can approve.
Página 438 - He stood between the living and the dead, and the plague was stayed.
Página 533 - The mother of mankind, what time his pride Had cast him out from Heaven, with all his host Of rebel angels, by whose aid, aspiring To set himself in glory...
Página 378 - There needs no more to be said to extol the excellence and power of his wit and pleasantness of his conversation, than that it was of magnitude enough to cover a world of very great faults, that is, so to cover them that they were not taken notice of to his reproach, viz. a narrowness in his nature to the lowest degree, an abjectness and want of courage to support him in any virtuous undertaking, an insinuation and servile flattery to the height the vainest and most imperious nature could be contented...