The American Whig Review, Հատորներ 9-15Wiley and Putnam, 1852 |
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... present time . Some years ago , a literary gentleman struck on a new and happy idea . Availing himself of his numerous relations with the aristocracy and ladies of cultivated taste , he established des matinées littéraires , in which ...
... present time . Some years ago , a literary gentleman struck on a new and happy idea . Availing himself of his numerous relations with the aristocracy and ladies of cultivated taste , he established des matinées littéraires , in which ...
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... present situation of England , " said he . " What is it ? Under the influence of her representa- tive and free government , and through the most able and efficient administration , she has triumphantly emerged from this terrible warfare ...
... present situation of England , " said he . " What is it ? Under the influence of her representa- tive and free government , and through the most able and efficient administration , she has triumphantly emerged from this terrible warfare ...
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... present day start back in positive dis- day with his fellow - Englishmen , the number may . We have no time for poems com- of his readers would have increased a hun - prising twelve or twenty - four books , though dred - fold . If ...
... present day start back in positive dis- day with his fellow - Englishmen , the number may . We have no time for poems com- of his readers would have increased a hun - prising twelve or twenty - four books , though dred - fold . If ...
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... present day whom we might name , both English and American , often un- thinkingly styled imitators , the Tennysoni- an vein appears as natural and as unstrained as if their own genius had been its prime originator . We cannot better ...
... present day whom we might name , both English and American , often un- thinkingly styled imitators , the Tennysoni- an vein appears as natural and as unstrained as if their own genius had been its prime originator . We cannot better ...
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... present will never prosper . " But the people wondered still more that the master no longer was ever present at the building as heretofore , but went often to the churches , and came more and more seldom , until at last he was almost ...
... present will never prosper . " But the people wondered still more that the master no longer was ever present at the building as heretofore , but went often to the churches , and came more and more seldom , until at last he was almost ...
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Էջ 122 - Yet must I not give nature all; thy art, My gentle Shakespeare, must enjoy a part ; For though the poet's matter nature be, His art doth give the fashion : and, that he Who casts to write a living line, must sweat, (Such as thine are) and strike the second heat Upon the Muses...
Էջ 351 - I believe I fancied her too much interested in personal history ; and her talk was a comedy in which dramatic justice was done to everybody's foibles. I remember that she made me laugh more than I liked; for I was, at that time, an eager scholar of ethics, and had tasted the sweets of solitude and stoicism...
Էջ 18 - List his discourse of war, and you shall hear A fearful battle render'd you in music : Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter...
Էջ 123 - Never, lago. Like to the Pontic sea, Whose icy current and compulsive course Ne'er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due on To the Propontic and the Hellespont ; Even so my bloody thoughts, with violent pace, Shall ne'er look back, ne'er ebb to humble love. Till that a capable and wide revenge Swallow them up. — Now, by yond marble heaven, In the due reverence of a sacred vow {Kneels, I here engage my words.
Էջ 20 - He remembered perhaps enough of his school-boy learning to put the Hig, hag, hog, into the mouth of Sir Hugh Evans ; and might pick up in the writers of the time, or the course of his conversation, a familiar phrase or two of French or Italian : but his studies were most demonstratively confined to nature and his own language.
Էջ 189 - ... and accommodation of a great number. The other exports the accommodation and subsistence of a great number, and imports that of a very few only. The inhabitants of the one must always enjoy a much greater quantity of subsistence than what their own lands, in the actual state of their cultivation, could afford. The inhabitants of the other must always enjoy a much smaller quantity.
Էջ 188 - Sir : It is a remarkable fact in the history of mankind, that while, through all the past, honors were bestowed upon glory, and glory was attached only to success, the legislative authorities of this great republic •bestow...
Էջ 460 - I send you this letter by an envoy of my own appointment, an officer of high rank in his country, who is no missionary of religion. He goes by my command, to bear to you my greeting and good wishes, and to promote friendship and commerce between the two countries.
Էջ 279 - You have set us the example ; you have quit your own to stand on foreign ground ; you have abandoned the policy you professed in the day of your weakness, to interfere in the affairs of the people upon this continent, in behalf of those principles, the supremacy of which you say is necessary to your prosperity, to your existence. We, in our...
Էջ 189 - A small quantity of manufactured produce purchases a great quantity of rude produce. A trading and manufacturing country, therefore, naturally purchases with a small part of its manufactured produce a great part of the rude produce of other countries...