American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 35Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew 1850 |
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... wish to press beyond the Babelmandel Straits ! Then I spake , ' Our steeds are frantic : To your saddles every one ! Never quail before these Shadows ! You are children of the Sun ! If their garments rustle past you , if their glances ...
... wish to press beyond the Babelmandel Straits ! Then I spake , ' Our steeds are frantic : To your saddles every one ! Never quail before these Shadows ! You are children of the Sun ! If their garments rustle past you , if their glances ...
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... wishes to know if any attendant spirit watched over the safety of Noah and his family when upon the vast flood ; and if so , what one . Can't answer precisely ; but if such was the case , suppose it must have been an arch . angel ...
... wishes to know if any attendant spirit watched over the safety of Noah and his family when upon the vast flood ; and if so , what one . Can't answer precisely ; but if such was the case , suppose it must have been an arch . angel ...
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... wishes our advice about going to California . Go by all means , young lady . Analizers are very much needed there . ' EXTRA ' ERALD .'- We cannot tell you , my lad , who was the first news - boy . It is not yet de- cided whether the ...
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... wishes lay in the future , and life with mournful tones passed shapeless before me . But now ! -all my longing has ceased , and in her hallowed presence the wild storm of the soul is hushed in sweetest contentment . The present fills me ...
... wishes lay in the future , and life with mournful tones passed shapeless before me . But now ! -all my longing has ceased , and in her hallowed presence the wild storm of the soul is hushed in sweetest contentment . The present fills me ...
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Page 277 - O thou that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers! Whence are thy beams, O sun! thy everlasting light? Thou comest forth, in thy awful beauty; the stars hide themselves in the sky; the moon, cold and pale, sinks in the western wave. But thou thyself movest alone; who can be a companion of thy course!
Page 277 - When the world is dark with tempests, when thunder rolls and lightning flies, thou lookest in thy beauty from the clouds and laughest at the storm. But to Ossian thou lookest in vain ; for he beholds thy beams no more, whether thy yellow hair flows on the eastern clouds or thou tremblest at the gates of the west. But thou art, perhaps, like me, for a season ; thy years will have an end. Thou shalt sleep in thy clouds careless of the voice of the morning.
Page 456 - By thine Agony and bloody Sweat ; by thy Cross and Passion ; by thy precious Death and Burial ; by thy glorious Resurrection and Ascension ; and by the coming of the Holy Ghost, Good Lord, deliver us.
Page 259 - A snowstorm was falling around us. The snowstorm was real, the preacher merely spectral, and the eye felt the sad contrast in looking at him, and then out of the window behind him into the beautiful meteor of the snow. He had lived in vain. He had no one word intimating that he had laughed or wept, was married or in love, had been commended, or cheated, or chagrined. If he had ever lived and acted, we were none the wiser for it.
Page 521 - That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow • warmer among the ruins of lona.
Page 547 - But when wit is combined with sense and information ; -when it is softened by benevolence, and restrained by strong principle ; when it is in the hands of a man who can use it and despise it, who can be witty, and something much better than witty, who loves honour, justice, decency, good-nature, morality, and religion ten thousand times better than wit ; wit is then a beautiful and delightful part of our nature.
Page 547 - The meaning of an extraordinary man is, that he is eight men, not one man ; that he has as much wit as if he had no sense, and as much sense as if he had no wit; that his conduct is as judicious as if he were the dullest of human beings, and his imagination as brilliant as if he were irretrievably ruined.
Page 547 - ... powerful influence in decision upon character, and is not overcome without considerable difficulty. The reason is, that the outward signs of a dull man and a wise man are the same, and so are the outward signs of a frivolous man and a witty man ; and we are not to expect that the majority will be disposed to look to much more than the outward sign.
Page 13 - On they came, their hueless faces toward Mecca evermore; On they came, long files of camels, and of women whom they bore, Guides and merchants, youthful maidens, bearing pitchers in their hands, And behind them troops of horsemen following...
Page 546 - Though the question is not a very easy one, we shall venture to say that a bull is an apparent congruity and real incongruity of ideas suddenly discovered. And, if this account of bulls be just, they are (as might have been supposed) the very reverse of wit; for, as wit discovers real relations that are not apparent, bulls admit apparent relations that are not real.