The North American Review, Volumen64Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge O. Everett, 1847 Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... readers so long as our language endures . - But Dr. Johnson's works of various kinds , excellent and instructive as they are , will be more or less esteemed as the literary fashion changes ; always sure , however , of read- ers of the ...
... readers so long as our language endures . - But Dr. Johnson's works of various kinds , excellent and instructive as they are , will be more or less esteemed as the literary fashion changes ; always sure , however , of read- ers of the ...
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... reading Hume's Treatise of Human Nature , and the ray of light which was struggling in at the keyhole was ... readers of the present day ; and such was the variety of suggestion always flowing from his active and fertile mind ...
... reading Hume's Treatise of Human Nature , and the ray of light which was struggling in at the keyhole was ... readers of the present day ; and such was the variety of suggestion always flowing from his active and fertile mind ...
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... reader in that day , when a swarm of novels as worthless as the writers of them had not yet come up into every corner of peo- ple's houses , forming one of the chief pests of the age . He read such works , however , more thoroughly than ...
... reader in that day , when a swarm of novels as worthless as the writers of them had not yet come up into every corner of peo- ple's houses , forming one of the chief pests of the age . He read such works , however , more thoroughly than ...
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... reader has no means of knowing , awkward and squinting al- lusions to facts and incidents which are behind the scenes , and a way of introducing subjects indirectly and by implica- tion , which , if produced at all , should come full ...
... reader has no means of knowing , awkward and squinting al- lusions to facts and incidents which are behind the scenes , and a way of introducing subjects indirectly and by implica- tion , which , if produced at all , should come full ...
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... readers have no delight in books that are long , he was in doubt whether to proceed , or to close the history with the fall of the Western Empire . But the same necessity which urged him to begin required him to persevere ; indeed , it ...
... readers have no delight in books that are long , he was in doubt whether to proceed , or to close the history with the fall of the Western Empire . But the same necessity which urged him to begin required him to persevere ; indeed , it ...
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Página 419 - A made a finer end, and went away an it had been any christom child. A parted even just between twelve and one, even at the turning o' the tide. For after I saw him fumble with the sheets, and play with flowers, and smile upon his fingers...
Página 408 - And brier-roses, dwelt among; All beside was unknown waste, All was picture as he passed. Wiser far than human seer, Yellow-breeched philosopher ! Seeing only what is fair, Sipping only what is sweet, Thou dost mock at fate and care, Leave the chaff, and take the wheat.
Página 410 - T is mine, my children's and my name's. How sweet the west wind sounds in my own trees! How graceful climb those shadows on my hill! I fancy these pure waters and the flags Know me, as does my dog: we sympathize; And, I affirm, my actions smack of the soil." Where are these men? Asleep beneath their grounds: And strangers, fond as they, their furrows plough. Earth laughs in flowers, to see her boastful boys Earth-proud, proud of the earth which is not theirs; Who steer the plough, but cannot steer...
Página 216 - Stick to your aim ; the mongrel's hold will slip, But only crowbars loose the bulldog's grip...
Página 407 - Uprose the merry Sphinx, And crouched no more in stone; She melted into purple cloud, She silvered in the moon; She spired into a yellow flame; She flowered in blossoms red; She flowed into a foaming wave: She stood Monadnoc's head. Thorough a thousand voices Spoke the universal dame; "Who telleth one of my meanings Is master of all I am.
Página 188 - Walker's Key to the Classical Pronunciation of Greek, Latin, and Scripture Proper Names.
Página 405 - It is a pleasant air, but a barren soil ; and there are very few instances of those who have added to their patrimony by any thing they have reaped from thence. Poetry and gaming which usually go together are alike in this too, that they seldom bring any advantage but to those who have nothing else to live on.
Página 453 - Conway to General Gates, he says, " Heaven has determined to save your country, or a weak general and bad counselors would have ruined it" ' " I am, sir, your humble servant,
Página 271 - CYCLOPEDIA OF ENGLISH LITERATURE. A Selection of the choicest productions of English Authors, from the earliest to the present time. Connected by a Critical and Biographical History. Forming two large imperial octavo volumes of TOO pages each, double column letter press ; with upwards of 300 elegant Illustrations.
Página 369 - CIVILE," as Lucan expresses it. Why could not faction find other advocates? But among the uncertainties of the human state, we are doomed to number the instability of friendship.