Littell's Living Age, Volume 16Living Age Company, Incorporated, 1848 |
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... strong a light , so vivid and so ex- ish of Hans Christian Andersen . Translated by Mary Howitt . Nay , the eye is sometimes tasked to discover extraordinary beauty , where there is nothing but ex- traordinary blemish . Where the shrewd ...
... strong a light , so vivid and so ex- ish of Hans Christian Andersen . Translated by Mary Howitt . Nay , the eye is sometimes tasked to discover extraordinary beauty , where there is nothing but ex- traordinary blemish . Where the shrewd ...
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... strong an impulse for distinction accompanied with such vague notions of the means to attain it . At this period of his life his utter childishness , his affectionate simplicity , his superstition , his uncon- querable vanity , present ...
... strong an impulse for distinction accompanied with such vague notions of the means to attain it . At this period of his life his utter childishness , his affectionate simplicity , his superstition , his uncon- querable vanity , present ...
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... strong enough " to crack the satyric thong . " Mere exaggeration may be mere nonsense , and very dull nonsense . The scene is at the hotel at Terracina , so well known by all travellers . • " Should I take you to my old father WORKS OF ...
... strong enough " to crack the satyric thong . " Mere exaggeration may be mere nonsense , and very dull nonsense . The scene is at the hotel at Terracina , so well known by all travellers . • " Should I take you to my old father WORKS OF ...
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... strong ambition of a people with Europe at its feet , partially superseded alike the frivolous taste of the monarchy , and the rabid ferocities of revolutionary authorship . The bulletins of the " Grande Armée " told a daily tale of ...
... strong ambition of a people with Europe at its feet , partially superseded alike the frivolous taste of the monarchy , and the rabid ferocities of revolutionary authorship . The bulletins of the " Grande Armée " told a daily tale of ...
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... strong similitude in their characters - both keen , both in- telligent , both fond of power , and both exhibiting no delicacy whatever with regard to the means for its possession . Mrs. Clayton never shrank from intercourse with those ...
... strong similitude in their characters - both keen , both in- telligent , both fond of power , and both exhibiting no delicacy whatever with regard to the means for its possession . Mrs. Clayton never shrank from intercourse with those ...
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Página 67 - A pardlike Spirit beautiful and swift — A Love in desolation masked; — a Power Girt round with weakness; — it can scarce uplift The weight of the superincumbent hour...
Página 276 - A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet; A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food, For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
Página 281 - Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se quam quod ridiculos homines facit. "Exeat...
Página 4 - Piper, sit thee down and write In a book that all may read." So he vanished from my sight; And I plucked a hollow reed, And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every child may joy to hear.
Página 66 - This poem was chiefly written upon the mountainous ruins of the Baths of Caracalla, among the flowery glades, and thickets of odoriferous blossoming trees, which are extended in ever winding labyrinths upon its immense platforms and dizzy arches suspended in the air. The bright blue sky of Rome, and the effect of the vigorous awakening of spring in that divinest climate, and the new life with which it drenches the spirits even to intoxication, were the inspiration of this drama.
Página 4 - Pipe a song about a Lamb!' So I piped with merry cheer. 'Piper, pipe that song again;' So I piped: he wept to hear. 'Drop thy pipe, thy happy pipe; Sing thy songs of happy cheer!
Página 100 - The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?
Página 66 - Prometheus is, as it were, the type of the highest perfection of moral and intellectual nature, impelled by the purest and the truest motives to the best and noblest ends.
Página 100 - It undergoes continual changes; it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is christianized, it is rich, it is scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given something is taken.
Página 63 - It had been long abandoned, for its sides Gaped wide with many a rift, and its frail joints Swayed with the undulations of the tide. A restless impulse urged him to embark, And meet lone Death on the drear ocean's waste ; For well he knew that mighty Shadow loves The slimy caverns of the populous deep.