American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volumul 151840 |
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Pagina 3
... character of Pagan and Christian chivalry is strikingly illustrated by the diverse character of the two most conspicuous aims , toward which their several energies were bent . The ten years ' crusade of the Grecian knighthood was ...
... character of Pagan and Christian chivalry is strikingly illustrated by the diverse character of the two most conspicuous aims , toward which their several energies were bent . The ten years ' crusade of the Grecian knighthood was ...
Pagina 6
... character of chivalry , in its palmy state , may perhaps best be gathered from a glance at the leading features of the discipline to which its aspirants were subjected . The ranks of the order were recruited , with few exceptions , from ...
... character of chivalry , in its palmy state , may perhaps best be gathered from a glance at the leading features of the discipline to which its aspirants were subjected . The ranks of the order were recruited , with few exceptions , from ...
Pagina 24
... character of those islands . The enchantments , too , with which he has clothed the island of Prospero , may they not be traced to the wild and superstitious notions entertained about the Bermudas ? I have already cited two passages ...
... character of those islands . The enchantments , too , with which he has clothed the island of Prospero , may they not be traced to the wild and superstitious notions entertained about the Bermudas ? I have already cited two passages ...
Pagina 50
... character , and every hour of my life , to shed ease and enjoyment on the pathway of her existence . When she first discovers the truth , her resentment will doubtless be terrible indeed ; but the evil being irreparable , reason will in ...
... character , and every hour of my life , to shed ease and enjoyment on the pathway of her existence . When she first discovers the truth , her resentment will doubtless be terrible indeed ; but the evil being irreparable , reason will in ...
Pagina 55
... character , I could never hope to recover the esteem and affection of my wife . After the sale of the various articles of which I could now make no use , I found myself possessed of ten thousand crowns . There were rumors of a war ...
... character , I could never hope to recover the esteem and affection of my wife . After the sale of the various articles of which I could now make no use , I found myself possessed of ten thousand crowns . There were rumors of a war ...
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Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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!
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.