Miscellanies Selected from the Public Journals, Volumen2Joseph T. Buckingham, 1824 |
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... appearance it displays that boldness and in- dependence which have ever characterized the legisla- lative bodies , that have convened in it ; it is deficient in that elegance , symmetry , and aptitude of design , which we should expect ...
... appearance it displays that boldness and in- dependence which have ever characterized the legisla- lative bodies , that have convened in it ; it is deficient in that elegance , symmetry , and aptitude of design , which we should expect ...
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... appearance , while it proves the superiority of his talents and his worth , and shows the regard of our county to merit , suggests the idea that genius and distinction in this republic , are not confined to the pal- aces of the great ...
... appearance , while it proves the superiority of his talents and his worth , and shows the regard of our county to merit , suggests the idea that genius and distinction in this republic , are not confined to the pal- aces of the great ...
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... appearance . The whole reminded the admirer of Os- sian , of his happy description of the ruins of the dwell- ing of Morna . " I have seen the walls of Balclutha , but they were desolate . The fire had resounded within the walls , and ...
... appearance . The whole reminded the admirer of Os- sian , of his happy description of the ruins of the dwell- ing of Morna . " I have seen the walls of Balclutha , but they were desolate . The fire had resounded within the walls , and ...
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... appearance , deserves examination and analysis , as well in her exterior arrangement and decorations , as- in the internal government , and organization , of her happy constitution . It will be discovered , with little effort , that ...
... appearance , deserves examination and analysis , as well in her exterior arrangement and decorations , as- in the internal government , and organization , of her happy constitution . It will be discovered , with little effort , that ...
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... appearance for the season . " That's a complete coun- terfeit , " said Mike . " You will make a gentleman of him , stranger , and I shall never persuade him to return home with me . " Where is your place of residence , Mr. Shuckwell ...
... appearance for the season . " That's a complete coun- terfeit , " said Mike . " You will make a gentleman of him , stranger , and I shall never persuade him to return home with me . " Where is your place of residence , Mr. Shuckwell ...
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Página 18 - tis, to cast one's eyes so low! The crows and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon...
Página 18 - Come on, sir; here's the place: stand still. How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low! The crows and choughs that wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles: halfway down Hangs one that gathers samphire, dreadful trade!
Página 250 - There with its waving blade of green, The sea-flag streams through the silent water, And the crimson leaf of the dulse is seen To blush, like a banner bathed in slaughter...
Página 249 - DEEP in the wave is a coral grove, Where the purple mullet and gold-fish rove, Where the sea-flower spreads its leaves of blue, That never are wet with falling dew, But in bright and changeful beauty shine, Far down in the green and glassy brine.
Página 63 - And what are we That hear the question of that voice sublime ? O, what are all the notes that ever rung From war's vain trumpet by thy thundering side ? Yea, what is all the riot man can make In his short life to thy unceasing roar ? And yet, bold babbler, what art thou to HIM Who drowned a world and heaped the waters far Above its loftiest mountains ? — a light wave That breaks and whispers of its Maker's might.
Página 250 - ... like corn on the upland lea: And life, in rare and beautiful forms, Is sporting amid those bowers of stone, And is safe when the wrathful spirit of storms Has made the top of the wave his own; And when the ship from his fury flies, Where the myriad voices of ocean roar, When the wind-god frowns in the murky skies, And demons are waiting the wreck on shore; Then far below in the peaceful sea, The purple mullet and gold-fish rove, Where the waters murmur tranquilly, Through the bending twigs of...
Página 43 - Robbins was a Senator in the Congress of the United States from the State of...
Página 61 - mid the cheerless hours of night, A mother wandered with her child. As through the drifted snows she pressed, The babe was sleeping on her breast. And colder still the winds did blow, And darker hours of night came on, And deeper grew the drifts of snow — Her limbs were chilled, her strength was gone — " O God," she cried, in accents wild, " If I must perish, save my child!
Página 102 - Tis granted, and no plainer truth appears, Our most important are our earliest years ; The mind, impressible and soft, with ease Imbibes and copies what she hears and sees, And through life's labyrinth holds fast the clue, That education gives her, false or true.
Página 59 - The fox and the panther, both beasts of the night, Retire to their dens on the gleaming of light, And they spring with a free and a sorrowless track, For they know that their mates are expecting them back. Each bird and each beast, it is blessed in degree ; All nature is cheerful, all happy, but me.