The American Whig Review, Volume 3Wiley and Putnam, 1846 - Periodicals |
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... equal to our " corn - stalk militia " upon an equal field against an equal foe . They may very well afford to fight Mexicans five to one as the boast is - when not more than one in that five can fire his gun with out shutting his eyes ...
... equal to our " corn - stalk militia " upon an equal field against an equal foe . They may very well afford to fight Mexicans five to one as the boast is - when not more than one in that five can fire his gun with out shutting his eyes ...
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... equal flexibility and power , every muscle appearing ready for its proper service , but all vast , round , and well pronounced . " Such , O Phidias , were the words of Anaxagoras , regard- ing the mode of representing Hercules . PHID ...
... equal flexibility and power , every muscle appearing ready for its proper service , but all vast , round , and well pronounced . " Such , O Phidias , were the words of Anaxagoras , regard- ing the mode of representing Hercules . PHID ...
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... equal passion ; but they will di- versely discover this : one in war or in oratory , the other in a poem or in the statue of a magnanimous hero . If any man is inspired with greatness , or with prudence , or with justice , or with any ...
... equal passion ; but they will di- versely discover this : one in war or in oratory , the other in a poem or in the statue of a magnanimous hero . If any man is inspired with greatness , or with prudence , or with justice , or with any ...
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... equal . PHID . I am perplexed with a doubt . The actions of some men are wholly passionate , while those of others seem full of reason . Say , then , whether pas- sion and intellect flow from the spirit of reason , or whether one and ...
... equal . PHID . I am perplexed with a doubt . The actions of some men are wholly passionate , while those of others seem full of reason . Say , then , whether pas- sion and intellect flow from the spirit of reason , or whether one and ...
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... equal to the crime ; or should it not ? PHID . It should . Soc . Say , then , if I am willing to en- dure the penalty of a crime for the plea- sure of injuring my neighbor , whether the penalty would be of the least avail . PHID . It ...
... equal to the crime ; or should it not ? PHID . It should . Soc . Say , then , if I am willing to en- dure the penalty of a crime for the plea- sure of injuring my neighbor , whether the penalty would be of the least avail . PHID . It ...
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Page 119 - True, I talk of dreams ; Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as thin of substance as the air, And more inconstant than the wind, who wooes Even now the frozen bosom of the north, And, being anger'd, puffs away from thence, Turning his face to the dew-dropping south.
Page 122 - And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus...
Page 164 - She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors: "Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man.
Page 118 - Sweet, rouse yourself ; and the weak wanton Cupid Shall from your neck unloose his amorous fold, And, like a dew-drop from the lion's mane, Be shook to air.
Page 124 - Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note...
Page 186 - TRIUMPHAL arch, that fill'st the sky When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud Philosophy To teach me what thou art — Still seem as to my childhood's sight, A midway station given For happy spirits to alight Betwixt the earth and heaven.
Page 398 - I have sought the Lord night and day, that He would rather slay me than put me upon the doing of this work.
Page 186 - O'er mountain, tower, and town, Or mirror'd in the ocean vast, A thousand fathoms down ! ' ;" '""' As fresh in yon horizon dark, As young thy beauties seem, As when the eagle from the ark First sported in thy beam. For, faithful to its sacred page, Heaven still rebuilds thy span, Nor lets the type grow pale with age That first spoke peace to man.
Page 82 - European powers to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety...
Page 122 - Teach us, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine ; I have never heard Praise of love or wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine.