The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, Volumul 4Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew 1834 |
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... remarkable deviations , and cer- tainly , it may be said , without retrocession . In the age of Louis XIV . it had perhaps attained the utmost which it was calculated to attain in the order of its progress , and becoming , as it were ...
... remarkable deviations , and cer- tainly , it may be said , without retrocession . In the age of Louis XIV . it had perhaps attained the utmost which it was calculated to attain in the order of its progress , and becoming , as it were ...
Pagina 28
... remarkable for luxuriance of growth , rather than for strength or manliness - that it paints the fancies of a heated imagination , but none of the realities of life . But it is not so . It is true , poetry as well as romance , does ...
... remarkable for luxuriance of growth , rather than for strength or manliness - that it paints the fancies of a heated imagination , but none of the realities of life . But it is not so . It is true , poetry as well as romance , does ...
Pagina 34
... remarkable person was Gunnlaug , the eldest born , and the hereditary chief of the lordship . He was admired for his stature , strength , and prowess ; and the character of his mind threw a charm of attraction and authority over the ...
... remarkable person was Gunnlaug , the eldest born , and the hereditary chief of the lordship . He was admired for his stature , strength , and prowess ; and the character of his mind threw a charm of attraction and authority over the ...
Pagina 45
... remarkable for the greatness of his own powers , as for the independence with which he devoted them to the improvement of his country's literature . Regarding the blind vene- ration for the classic writers of Greece and Rome , which had ...
... remarkable for the greatness of his own powers , as for the independence with which he devoted them to the improvement of his country's literature . Regarding the blind vene- ration for the classic writers of Greece and Rome , which had ...
Pagina 53
... remarkable peculiarity about this poem is its perfect free- dom from conventional ornament . The story is told with exquisite sim- plicity ; we are charmed and interested , we scarce know why , by the unadorned recital , which possesses ...
... remarkable peculiarity about this poem is its perfect free- dom from conventional ornament . The story is told with exquisite sim- plicity ; we are charmed and interested , we scarce know why , by the unadorned recital , which possesses ...
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Pagina 380 - Where be your gibes now ? your gambols ? your songs ? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table in a roar ? Not one now, to mock your own grinning?
Pagina 386 - A couple of lobsters; ay, that would have done very well; two shillings — tarts a shilling: but you will drink a glass of wine with me, though you supped so much before your usual time only to spare my pocket?' — 'No, we had rather talk with you than drink with you.
Pagina 132 - It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.
Pagina 109 - The bliss of man (could pride that blessing find) Is not to act or think beyond mankind ; No powers of body or of soul to share, But what his nature and his state can bear. Why has not man a microscopic eye ? For this plain reason, man is not a fly. Say what the use were finer optics given, T...
Pagina 56 - We have above ground seen some strange mutations: The Roman empire has begun and ended — New worlds have risen- — we have lost old nations; And countless kings have into dust been humbled, While not a fragment of thy flesh has crumbled.
Pagina 386 - But, if you had supped with me, as in all reason you ought to have done, you must then have drunk with me.
Pagina 56 - And standest undecayed within our presence, Thou wilt hear nothing till the judgment morning, When the great Trump shall thrill thee with its warning.
Pagina 18 - He saw her charming, but he saw not half The charms her downcast modesty conceal'd.
Pagina 391 - See to their desks Apollo's sons repair — Swift rides the rosin o'er the horse's hair ! In unison their various tones to tune, Murmurs the hautboy, growls the hoarse bassoon; In soft...
Pagina 386 - I'll tell you one that first comes into my head. One evening, Gay and I went to see him : you know how intimately we were all acquainted. On our coming in,