Southern Quarterly Review, Volume 5Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell Wiley & Putnam, 1844 |
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... period of its accomplishment constitutes one of the grandest epochs in the history of man . Never before appeared , on the great political theatre , such actors , such virtue , such vice . Never were there such comminglement and chaos ...
... period of its accomplishment constitutes one of the grandest epochs in the history of man . Never before appeared , on the great political theatre , such actors , such virtue , such vice . Never were there such comminglement and chaos ...
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... period when this monarchic power attain- ed its greatest development . In the first place , never did man tread in the shoes of royalty with such surpassing ef- fect as Louis ; never did king better understand what king James called ...
... period when this monarchic power attain- ed its greatest development . In the first place , never did man tread in the shoes of royalty with such surpassing ef- fect as Louis ; never did king better understand what king James called ...
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... period as this , we might well expect a complete Anglophobia in France . Accordingly , we find the checks and balances of the British constitution , the perfect horror of Frenchmen , -they were looked on as im- peding national glory ...
... period as this , we might well expect a complete Anglophobia in France . Accordingly , we find the checks and balances of the British constitution , the perfect horror of Frenchmen , -they were looked on as im- peding national glory ...
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... period of the Roman Emperors , profligacy had never been conducted in so open and undisguised a manner . Louis XV . asserted that he could prove by facts not to be doubted , that from his earliest youth , there had been no young female ...
... period of the Roman Emperors , profligacy had never been conducted in so open and undisguised a manner . Louis XV . asserted that he could prove by facts not to be doubted , that from his earliest youth , there had been no young female ...
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... period like this , -it was an apt prelude to the re- volution which brought his successor to the block . 6. Louis XVI . - Necker says this monarch possessed qual- ities suitable for a balanced government like that of Éng- land , which ...
... period like this , -it was an apt prelude to the re- volution which brought his successor to the block . 6. Louis XVI . - Necker says this monarch possessed qual- ities suitable for a balanced government like that of Éng- land , which ...
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Page 495 - First, Moloch, horrid King, besmeared with blood Of human sacrifice, and parents' tears; Though, for the noise of drums and timbrels loud, Their children's cries unheard that passed through fire To his grim idol.
Page 444 - The birds their quire apply ; airs, vernal airs, Breathing the smell of field and grove, attune The trembling leaves, while universal Pan, Knit with the Graces and the Hours in dance, Led on the eternal Spring.
Page 438 - Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine; what is low, raise and support...
Page 212 - Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud, instead, and ever-during dark, Surrounds me...
Page 438 - OF Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought Death into the world and all our woe, With loss of Eden (till one greater Man Restore us and regain the blissful seat!), Sing, heavenly Muse...
Page 452 - Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams ; or, from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs ; darken'd so, yet shone Above them all th...
Page 452 - Demoniac phrenzy, moping melancholy, And moon-struck madness, pining atrophy, Marasmus, and wide-wasting pestilence, Dropsies and asthmas, and joint-racking rheums. Dire was the tossing, deep the groans; Despair Tended the sick, busiest from couch to couch; 490 And over them triumphant Death his dart Shook, but delayed to strike, though oft invoked With vows, as their chief good and final hope.
Page 367 - I leave where I find it — in the hands of their own governments. It is their affair, not mine. Nor do I complain of the peculiar effect which the magnitude of that population has had in the distribution of power under this federal government. We know, sir, that the representation of the States in the other House is not equal. We know that great advantage in that respect, is enjoyed by the slave-holding States...
Page 454 - Earth trembled from her entrails, as again In pangs; and Nature gave a second groan; Sky lour'd, and, muttering thunder, some sad drops Wept at completing of the mortal sin Original...
Page 264 - Thou unrelenting Past! Strong are the barriers round thy dark domain, And fetters, sure and fast, Hold all that enter thy unbreathing reign. Far in thy realm withdrawn Old empires sit in sullenness and gloom, And glorious ages gone Lie deep within the shadow of thy womb. Childhood, with all its mirth, Youth, Manhood, Age that draws us to the ground, And last, Man's Life on earth, Glide to thy dim dominions, and are bound.