The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review, Volume 5Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson Munroe and Francis, 1808 - American literature Vols. 3-4 include appendix: "The Political cabinet." |
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... honour of our country , we are not ashamed to express our conviction , that one reason of the low estima- tion , in which our literature is held among ourselves as well as in Europe is , that there has yet been no regular survey of this ...
... honour of our country , we are not ashamed to express our conviction , that one reason of the low estima- tion , in which our literature is held among ourselves as well as in Europe is , that there has yet been no regular survey of this ...
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... honour of our literary history , that notices and anecdotes should be collected of authors and their works , before all their cotemporaries , or their im- mediate descendants , shall have left the stage . The fame of some men , whose ...
... honour of our literary history , that notices and anecdotes should be collected of authors and their works , before all their cotemporaries , or their im- mediate descendants , shall have left the stage . The fame of some men , whose ...
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... honour of his fam- ily , and the personal security of the guest is put in jeopardy . To account for this apparent paradox , let it be understood , that , amongst these ardent and uncultivated minds , a friend is regarded as an integral ...
... honour of his fam- ily , and the personal security of the guest is put in jeopardy . To account for this apparent paradox , let it be understood , that , amongst these ardent and uncultivated minds , a friend is regarded as an integral ...
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... honours to their coun- try , and lights to mankind . Two other works he wished to have been able to send to that college . ' Gazophylacium Lingua Persa- rum , Amst . 1684 , fol . ' Meninski , Thesaurus Lingua- rum Orientalium ...
... honours to their coun- try , and lights to mankind . Two other works he wished to have been able to send to that college . ' Gazophylacium Lingua Persa- rum , Amst . 1684 , fol . ' Meninski , Thesaurus Lingua- rum Orientalium ...
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... honour'd brow The poet's bays and critick's ivy grow : Cremona now shall ever boast thy name , As next in place to Mantua , next in fame ! ' It would not appear wonderful if Pope should pilfer a little from one whom he has praised so ...
... honour'd brow The poet's bays and critick's ivy grow : Cremona now shall ever boast thy name , As next in place to Mantua , next in fame ! ' It would not appear wonderful if Pope should pilfer a little from one whom he has praised so ...
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Page 599 - When I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
Page 309 - Give me leave. Here lies the water ; good : here stands the man ; good : If the man go to this water, and drown himself, it is, will he, nill he, he goes ; mark you that ? but if the water come to him, and drown him, he drowns not himself: argal, he that is not guilty of his own death, shortens not his own life. 2 Clo. But is this law ? 1 Clo. Ay, marry is 't ; crowner's-quest law. 2 Clo. Will you ha...
Page 312 - Seven years thou wert lent to me, and I thee pay, Exacted by thy fate, on the just day. O, could I lose all father, now! For why Will man lament the state he should envy? To have so soon 'scaped world's and flesh's rage, And, if no other misery, yet age! Rest in soft peace; and, asked, say: Here doth lie Ben Jonson his best piece of poetry — For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such, As what he loves may never like too much.
Page 230 - And I looked, and behold a pale horse : and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
Page 217 - And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament, from the waters which were above the firmament : and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
Page 342 - A Platform of Church Discipline gathered out of the word of God: and agreed upon by the Elders; and Messengers of the Churches assembled in the Synod at Cambridge in New England to be presented to the Churches and General!
Page 217 - And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire.
Page 30 - To die, is landing on some silent shore, Where billows never break nor tempests roar : Ere well we feel the friendly stroke 'tis o'er.
Page 111 - When at Oxford, I took up Law's ' Serious Call to a Holy Life,' expecting to find it a dull book, (as such books generally are), and perhaps to laugh at it But 1 found Law quite an overmatch for me...
Page 146 - ... becomes pleasure. Hence it proceeds that there is such a thing as a sorrow soft and agreeable: it is a pain weakened and diminished. The heart likes naturally to be moved and affected. Melancholy objects suit it, and even disastrous and sorrowful, provided they are softened by some circumstance. It is certain that, on the theatre, the representation has almost the effect of reality; yet it has not altogether that effect.