The American Monthly Magazine and Critical Review, Volume 3H. Biglow, Orville Luther Holley H. Biglow, 1818 - American literature |
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... soon won the attention of his tutor , Professor Ogilvy . " As he successively passed under the care of the professors , he found himself the object of their approbation and solici- tude . Returning every summer to the bosom of his ...
... soon won the attention of his tutor , Professor Ogilvy . " As he successively passed under the care of the professors , he found himself the object of their approbation and solici- tude . Returning every summer to the bosom of his ...
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... soon arrive at this Campo Santo which exhibits the art growing , through several ages , from the simplicity of indi- gence to the simplicity of strength , " Here the immensity of surface to be covered forbade all study of perfection ...
... soon arrive at this Campo Santo which exhibits the art growing , through several ages , from the simplicity of indi- gence to the simplicity of strength , " Here the immensity of surface to be covered forbade all study of perfection ...
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... soon their delusion to their cost . It will teach you to pave turnpikes with quartz , which will wear two years , in- stead of limestone or any soft stone , which will not last three months . When clay contains too much calcarious ...
... soon their delusion to their cost . It will teach you to pave turnpikes with quartz , which will wear two years , in- stead of limestone or any soft stone , which will not last three months . When clay contains too much calcarious ...
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... soon be divided in three natural districts , - north of the Ohio , south of the Ohio , and west of the Mississippi , whose features and interests will also assume their own peculiarities , the presumable result of which will be a happy ...
... soon be divided in three natural districts , - north of the Ohio , south of the Ohio , and west of the Mississippi , whose features and interests will also assume their own peculiarities , the presumable result of which will be a happy ...
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... soon to grow rare , and at length disappear altogether . We ar- rive at strata of a different nature , which contain no vestige at all of living creatures . Nevertheless , their crystallization , and even the nature of their strata ...
... soon to grow rare , and at length disappear altogether . We ar- rive at strata of a different nature , which contain no vestige at all of living creatures . Nevertheless , their crystallization , and even the nature of their strata ...
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Page 390 - 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 207 - 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 327 - 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 206 - 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 206 - 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 403 - ... 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...