The Rhode-Island Literary Repository, Volume 1Isaac Bailey Robinson and Howland, 1814 |
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... his disgrace , and stung to the soul , by perceiving in the cold repulsive looks of every one , that his cowardice had procured their fixed contempt , he VOL . I. B fainted on the deck . What a contrast to this CAPTAIN WILLIAM HENRY ALLEN .
... his disgrace , and stung to the soul , by perceiving in the cold repulsive looks of every one , that his cowardice had procured their fixed contempt , he VOL . I. B fainted on the deck . What a contrast to this CAPTAIN WILLIAM HENRY ALLEN .
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... Look round thee then , O man ! who thinkest that the dead cannot be raised from the dust and from that profound oblivion , in which they seem to be for ever lost ; and does not all nature teach thee important lessons , and pre- sent ...
... Look round thee then , O man ! who thinkest that the dead cannot be raised from the dust and from that profound oblivion , in which they seem to be for ever lost ; and does not all nature teach thee important lessons , and pre- sent ...
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... look , appear ; Yet , when to Thee we turn our eyes , Some stars amid the storms arise . Lo ! twice within that little year , Behold yon trophied bark appear , Whose Eagle , in the watʼry field , Twice bade the British Lion yield ...
... look , appear ; Yet , when to Thee we turn our eyes , Some stars amid the storms arise . Lo ! twice within that little year , Behold yon trophied bark appear , Whose Eagle , in the watʼry field , Twice bade the British Lion yield ...
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... look - by death reveal'd ! Such is the aspect of this shore- ' Tis Greece — but living Greece no more ! So coldly sweet , so deadly fair , We start for soul is wanting there . Here is the loveliness in death , That parts not quite with ...
... look - by death reveal'd ! Such is the aspect of this shore- ' Tis Greece — but living Greece no more ! So coldly sweet , so deadly fair , We start for soul is wanting there . Here is the loveliness in death , That parts not quite with ...
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... look , his gesture , his attitude all the orator seems embodied before us , and we dwell in imagination on the sound of his voice with undiminished delight . He addressed himself to every faculty of the mind , and awakened every feeling ...
... look , his gesture , his attitude all the orator seems embodied before us , and we dwell in imagination on the sound of his voice with undiminished delight . He addressed himself to every faculty of the mind , and awakened every feeling ...
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admiration Æneas ancient appear Arminian attention beauty BENJAMIN WEST called Carthage cause Champe character charms Checkley christian church command considered death Dido divine Doctor Morse dulce domum earth effect endeavour excited fame fancy feel genius Giaour give glory Hannah Adams heart heaven honour hope human interest Jedediah Morse John Calvin justice Klopstock labour lady learned letter LITERARY REPOSITORY Lord Lord Byron Madame de Stael mankind ment mind Miss Adams moral motives nature never o'er object observed opinion original passions perhaps person Petrarch pleasure poem poet poetical poetry possessed present principles publick Pygmalion readers reason received religion respect Rhode-Island ship song soul spirit sublime superiour talents taste tears thee thing thou thought tion truth virtue whole WILLIAM HENRY ALLEN wish youth
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Página 52 - He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress...
Página 114 - Wi' mony a vow and lock'd embrace Our parting was fu' tender ; And pledging aft to meet again, We tore oursels asunder ; But, Oh ! fell Death's untimely frost, That nipt my flower sae early ! Now green's the sod, and cauld's the clay, That wraps my Highland Mary...
Página 114 - O' my sweet Highland Mary. How sweetly bloom'd the gay green birk, How rich the hawthorn's blossom, As underneath their fragrant shade I clasp'd her to my bosom ! The golden hours on angel wings Flew o'er me and my dearie ; For dear to me as light and life Was my sweet Highland Mary. Wi' mony a vow and lock'd embrace Our parting was fu...
Página 120 - For, like as we are compelled by the Christian verity to acknowledge every Person by Himself to be God and Lord, so are we forbidden by the Catholic Religion to say, there be Three Gods or Three Lords.
Página 196 - Yet in the whole — who paused to look again, Saw more than marks the crowd of vulgar men — They gaze and marvel how — and still confess That thus it is, but why they cannot guess.
Página 137 - The sting she nourished for her foes, Whose venom never yet was vain, Gives but one pang, and cures all pain, And darts into her desperate brain...
Página 223 - ... when dead. If, however, we consider even the prejudiced anecdotes furnished us by his enemies, we may perceive in them traces of amiable and lofty character sufficient to awaken sympathy for his fate, and respect for his memory. We find that, amidst all the harassing cares and ferocious passions of constant warfare, he was alive to the softer feelings of connubial love and paternal tenderness, and to the generous sentiment of friendship. The captivity of his "beloved wife and only son...
Página 393 - And if ye lend to them of whom ye hope to receive, what thank have ye? for sinners also lend to sinners, to receive as much again.
Página 254 - Who bow'd so low the knee ? By gazing on thyself grown blind, Thou taught'st the rest to see. With might unquestion'd, • — power to save, Thine only gift hath been the grave, To those that worshipp'd thee; Nor till thy fall could mortals guess Ambition's less than littleness!
Página 256 - All Evil Spirit as thou art, It is enough to grieve the heart To see thine own unstrung; To think that God's fair world hath been The footstool of a thing so mean!