American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volum 151840 |
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Pàgina 4
... humanity must have died out , but for the special intervention of Providence . Such spe- cial intervention was at hand ... human society , which bore the name of Roman , was no more . Out of the ingredients of its composition , scattered ...
... humanity must have died out , but for the special intervention of Providence . Such spe- cial intervention was at hand ... human society , which bore the name of Roman , was no more . Out of the ingredients of its composition , scattered ...
Pàgina 11
... human energy , must needs go down to its dust . The first in date among the causes that wrought its downfall , was the substitution of worldly rewards for that simple glory which was the knight's original inspiration . Princes naturally ...
... human energy , must needs go down to its dust . The first in date among the causes that wrought its downfall , was the substitution of worldly rewards for that simple glory which was the knight's original inspiration . Princes naturally ...
Pàgina 12
... humanity . ' I betook my- self , ' says he , among those lofty fables and romances , which recount in solemn cantos the deeds of knighthood founded by our victorious kings , and from thence had in renown all over christendom . There I ...
... humanity . ' I betook my- self , ' says he , among those lofty fables and romances , which recount in solemn cantos the deeds of knighthood founded by our victorious kings , and from thence had in renown all over christendom . There I ...
Pàgina 13
... humanity , takes the peculiar modification of clashing physical forces . Chivalry , therefore , was warlike from the necessity of the times that produced it . It did not , however , stand forth as the advocate and friend of war , but ...
... humanity , takes the peculiar modification of clashing physical forces . Chivalry , therefore , was warlike from the necessity of the times that produced it . It did not , however , stand forth as the advocate and friend of war , but ...
Pàgina 14
... humanity , and fairness unknown before , and thus , by diminishing the springs that feed it , wrought toward its final extinction . So do our woodmen kindle on the outskirts of a burning forest antagonist fires , which serve to check ...
... humanity , and fairness unknown before , and thus , by diminishing the springs that feed it , wrought toward its final extinction . So do our woodmen kindle on the outskirts of a burning forest antagonist fires , which serve to check ...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volum 8 Charles Fenno Hoffman,Lewis Gaylord Clark,Kinahan Cornwallis,Timothy Flint,John Holmes Agnew Visualització completa - 1836 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 365 - I am afraid my uncle will think himself justified by them on this occasion, when he asserts, that it is one of the most difficult things in the world to put a woman right, when she sets out wrong.
Pàgina 20 - I' the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things ; for no kind of traffic Would I admit ; no name of magistrate ; Letters should not be known ; riches, poverty, And use of service, none ; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none ; No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil ; No occupation ; all men idle, all ; And women too, — but innocent and pure ; No sovereignty, — Seb.
Pàgina 145 - With a slow and noiseless footstep Comes that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine. And she sits and gazes at me With those deep and tender eyes, Like the stars, so still and saint-like, Looking downward from the skies.
Pàgina 176 - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold ; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones...
Pàgina 317 - How calm, how beautiful comes on The stilly hour, when storms are gone ; When warring winds have died away, And clouds, beneath the glancing ray, Melt off, and leave the land and sea Sleeping in bright tranquillity, — Fresh as if day again were born, Again upon the lap of morn...
Pàgina 257 - Remember thee? Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat In this distracted globe. Remember thee? Yea, from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, That youth and observation copied there, And thy commandment all alone shall live Within the book and volume of my brain, Unmix'd with baser matter: yes, by heaven!
Pàgina 16 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Pàgina 20 - Treason, felony, Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine Would I not have ; but nature should bring forth Of its own kind, all foison, all abundance, To feed my innocent people.
Pàgina 407 - Secondly, The other fountain from which experience furnisheth the understanding with ideas, is the perception of the operations of our own minds within us, as it is employed about the ideas it has got; which operations when the soul comes to reflect on and consider, do furnish the understanding with another set of ideas, which could not be had from things without; and such are perception, thinking, doubting, believing, reasoning, knowing, willing, and all the different actings of our own minds; which...
Pàgina 10 - I betook me among those lofty fables and romances which recount in solemn cantos the deeds of knighthood founded by our victorious kings, and from hence had in renown over all Christendom.