The American Magazine, Volum 91888 A monthly miscellany, devoted to literature, science, history, biography, and the arts; including also state papers and public documents, with intelligence, domestic, foreign, and literary, public news, and passing events; being an attempt to form a useful repository for every description of American readers. |
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Pàgina 118 - But now for many years I cannot endure to read a line of poetry: I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
Pàgina 58 - On the bench by the old cabin door. The day goes by like a shadow o'er the heart, With sorrow, where all was delight; The time has come when the darkies have to part — Then my old Kentucky home, good-night!
Pàgina 241 - As Congress was now engaged in settling the form of government for the federal territory, for which a bill had been prepared, and a. copy sent to me with leave to make remarks and propose amendments, and which I had taken the liberty to remark upon, and to propose several amendments, I thought this the most favorable opportunity to go on to Philadelphia.
Pàgina 30 - I beseech you, therefore, to give full confidence to whatever he shall say to you on the part of the United States, and most of all when he shall assure you of their friendship and wishes for your prosperity, and I pray God to have your Majesty in safe and holy keeping.
Pàgina 242 - He ran around, he ran about, His thirst in puddles laving; He gnawed and scratched the house throughout, But nothing cured his raving. He whirled and jumped, with torment mad, And soon enough the poor beast had, As if he had love in his bosom.
Pàgina 30 - Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States of America. He is well informed of the relative interests of the two countries and of our sincere desire to cultivate, to the fullest extent, the friendship which has so long subsisted between us.
Pàgina 58 - twill never be light; A few more days till we totter on the road: — Then my old Kentucky home, good-night ! Weep no more, my lady, O, weep no more to-day!
Pàgina 241 - Called on members of Congress very early in the morning, and was furnished with the ordinance establishing a government in the Western Federal Territory. It is in a degree new modeled. The amendments I proposed have all been made, except one, and that is better qualified.
Pàgina 96 - ... of this dragon ; the third is fond of drinking, and likes all stimulating liquors, therefore goblets and drinking-cups are adorned with representations of this creature : the fourth likes steep and dangerous places, hence gables, towers, and projecting beams of temples and pagodas have carved images of this dragon upon them ; the fifth is a great destroyer of living things, fond of killing and bloodshed, therefore swords are decorated with...
Pàgina 127 - And the LORD said unto him, Who hath made man's mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the LORD? Now therefore go, and I •will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say.