The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volum 61A. Constable, 1835 |
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Pàgina 22
... character , and retired leisure , which a real devotion to literature , in its more exalted sense , requires . In America , doubt- less , as in other countries , master minds in literature will arise in time ; but not suddenly , we hope ...
... character , and retired leisure , which a real devotion to literature , in its more exalted sense , requires . In America , doubt- less , as in other countries , master minds in literature will arise in time ; but not suddenly , we hope ...
Pàgina 25
... character . In these Selections will be felt and seen the living ' spirit , the moving realities , and the striking natural features of ' Âmerica , more vitally preserved , and perceptibly true and cha- ' racteristic , than in all the ...
... character . In these Selections will be felt and seen the living ' spirit , the moving realities , and the striking natural features of ' Âmerica , more vitally preserved , and perceptibly true and cha- ' racteristic , than in all the ...
Pàgina 26
... character which nature has impressed upon the landscape . Giant mountains , rivers rolling like seas into the ocean , ' endless lakes , ' on which the navies of the earth might struggle for dominion , are noble elements of picturesque ...
... character which nature has impressed upon the landscape . Giant mountains , rivers rolling like seas into the ocean , ' endless lakes , ' on which the navies of the earth might struggle for dominion , are noble elements of picturesque ...
Pàgina 28
... character . He was careless , and in finish of versifi- cation far inferior to Bryant , who is not himself remarkable for extreme solicitude in that matter ; but even in this carelessness , which presents the thought in its full and ...
... character . He was careless , and in finish of versifi- cation far inferior to Bryant , who is not himself remarkable for extreme solicitude in that matter ; but even in this carelessness , which presents the thought in its full and ...
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... character , and we are sorry that this selection must be our last . It is a composition of great tenderness and beauty , by Flint , a poet with whom we were already partially acquainted , though we had not met with any thing from his ...
... character , and we are sorry that this selection must be our last . It is a composition of great tenderness and beauty , by Flint , a poet with whom we were already partially acquainted , though we had not met with any thing from his ...
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Pàgina 482 - Amen ; so let it be : Life from the dead is in that word, 'Tis immortality. Here in the body pent, Absent from Him I roam, Yet nightly pitch my moving tent A day's march nearer home.
Pàgina 298 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
Pàgina 340 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!
Pàgina 483 - Beside all waters sow, The highway furrows stock, Drop it where thorns and thistles grow, Scatter it on the rock.
Pàgina 29 - Murray's Encyclopaedia of Geography ; Comprising a complete Description of the Earth : Exhibiting its Relation to the Heavenly Bodies, its Physical Structure, the Natural History of each Country, and the Industry, Commerce, Political Institutions, and Civil and Social State of All Nations. Second Edition ; with 82 Maps, and upwards of 1,000 other Woodcuts. 8vo. price 60s. Neale.— The Closing Scene; or, Christianity and Infidelity contrasted in the Last Hours of Remarkable Persons.
Pàgina 316 - Westminster, do resolve that William and Mary, Prince and Princess of Orange be, and be declared King and Queen of England...
Pàgina 483 - Thou canst not toil in vain ; Cold, heat, and moist, and dry, Shall foster and mature the grain For garners in the sky.
Pàgina 34 - Thy flitting form comes ghostly dim and pale, As driven by a beating storm at sea ; Thy cry is weak and scared, As if thy mates had shared The doom of us : Thy wail — What does it bring to me...
Pàgina 31 - TO THE FRINGED GENTIAN. THOU blossom bright with autumn dew, And colored with the heaven's own blue, That openest when the quiet light Succeeds the keen and frosty night. Thou comest not when violets lean O'er wandering brooks and springs unseen, Or columbines, in purple dressed, Nod o'er the ground-bird's hidden nest. Thou waitest late and com'st alone, When woods are bare and birds are flown, And frosts and shortening days portend The aged year is near his end.
Pàgina 1 - THE HISTORY of ENGLAND during the MIDDLE AGES; comprising the Reigns from William the Conqueror to the Accession of Henry VIII., and also the History of the Literature, Religion, Poetry, and Progress of the Reformation and of the Language during that period. 3d Edition. 5 vols.