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The basis of the crystal in these stellę remains the same in each , viz . a planular , hexangular star ; and the varieties they exhibit seem rather to have the appearance of extrinsic decoration than any radical mutation .
The basis of the crystal in these stellę remains the same in each , viz . a planular , hexangular star ; and the varieties they exhibit seem rather to have the appearance of extrinsic decoration than any radical mutation .
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To be sure , there is Mr. Eustace , whose fine taste and classical enthusiasm have supplied us with many and glowing pictures of the remains of ancient art and magnificence that are scattered over the surface of Italy .
To be sure , there is Mr. Eustace , whose fine taste and classical enthusiasm have supplied us with many and glowing pictures of the remains of ancient art and magnificence that are scattered over the surface of Italy .
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... a spot ( among the mountains in the vicinity of Verona ) inhabited by a very singular race of people , totally distinct from the general population of Italy , and supposed to be descended from the remains of the Cimbri and Teutones ...
... a spot ( among the mountains in the vicinity of Verona ) inhabited by a very singular race of people , totally distinct from the general population of Italy , and supposed to be descended from the remains of the Cimbri and Teutones ...
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How superior these to the coarse remains of Anglo - Gothic art , which our draughtsmen are condemned to search out for those old mumbling collectors who are for ever picking the bare bone of antiquity ! His observations upon the ...
How superior these to the coarse remains of Anglo - Gothic art , which our draughtsmen are condemned to search out for those old mumbling collectors who are for ever picking the bare bone of antiquity ! His observations upon the ...
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... and entered at the custom - house as common merchandise : they were then dragged more than half naked to the Signoria , where they were obliged to kiss the posteriors of the stone Marzoccho , which remains as a record of their shame ...
... and entered at the custom - house as common merchandise : they were then dragged more than half naked to the Signoria , where they were obliged to kiss the posteriors of the stone Marzoccho , which remains as a record of their shame ...
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Page 392 - For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened ; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left : and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt...
Page 209 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roar: I love not Man the less, but Nature more...
Page 329 - At last a soft and solemn-breathing sound Rose like a steam of rich distill'd perfumes, And stole upon the air...
Page 89 - O'ER the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free. Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, Survey our empire, and behold our home ! These are our realms, no limits to their sway — Our flag the sceptre all who meet obey. Ours the wild life in tumult still to range From toil to rest, and joy in every change.
Page 208 - And all things weigh'd in custom's falsest scale ; Opinion an omnipotence — whose veil Mantles the earth with darkness, until right And wrong are accidents, and men grow pale Lest their own judgments should become too bright, And their free thoughts be crimes, and earth have too much light.
Page 115 - He fell into a fit of crying the moment he came into the chapel, and flung himself back in a stall, the archbishop hovering over him with a smelling-bottle; but in two minutes his curiosity got the better of his hypocrisy, and he ran about the chapel with his glass to spy who was or was not there, spying with one hand, and mopping his eyes with the other.
Page 165 - AH ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar ; Ah ! who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with Fortune an eternal war ; Check'd by the scoff of Pride, by Envy's frown, And Poverty's unconquerable bar, In life's low vale remote has pined alone, Then dropt into the grave, unpitied and unknown...
Page 208 - The moon is up, and yet it is not night; Sunset divides the sky with her; a sea Of glory streams along the Alpine height Of blue Friuli's mountains; Heaven is free From clouds, but of all colours seems to be, — Melted to one vast Iris of the West, — Where the Day joins the past Eternity, While, on the other hand, meek Dian's crest Floats through the azure air — an island of the blest!
Page 115 - Attending the funeral of a father could not be pleasant: his leg extremely bad, yet forced to stand upon it near two hours; his face bloated and distorted with his late paralytic stroke, which has affected, too, one of his eyes, and placed...
Page 405 - ... the free and ingenuous sort of such as evidently were born to study and love learning for itself, not for lucre or any other end but the service of God and of truth, and perhaps that lasting fame and perpetuity of praise which God and good men have consented shall be the reward of those whose published labours advance the good of mankind...
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| Title | The American Monthly Magazine and Critical Review, Volume 3 Volume 58 of American periodical series, 1800-1850 |
| Editors | H. Biglow, Orville Luther Holley |
| Publisher | H. Bigelow, Esq., editor and proprietor, 1818 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 4 Mar 2008 |
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