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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Pagina 12
... true ; but we do not conceive it neces- sary that a man should create a labored epic to substantiate a claim to the character of a first - rate poet . Gray has descended to posterity , and will go on to other ages , in his incomparable ...
... true ; but we do not conceive it neces- sary that a man should create a labored epic to substantiate a claim to the character of a first - rate poet . Gray has descended to posterity , and will go on to other ages , in his incomparable ...
Pagina 16
... true Hibernian simplicity , he asks respecting these eminent works : " What lesson do they teach ? What information do they convey ? What impression do they make ? ” — and adds— " We cannot see their value . " He confesses that they are ...
... true Hibernian simplicity , he asks respecting these eminent works : " What lesson do they teach ? What information do they convey ? What impression do they make ? ” — and adds— " We cannot see their value . " He confesses that they are ...
Pagina 23
... true , that they differ in the matter from the recorded opinions of every eminent Review in Europe , but then taste is taste , and there is no accounting for it . The productions of Bryant are esteemed , by this Philadelphia quarterly ...
... true , that they differ in the matter from the recorded opinions of every eminent Review in Europe , but then taste is taste , and there is no accounting for it . The productions of Bryant are esteemed , by this Philadelphia quarterly ...
Pagina 27
... true that they cannot afford it , for the same persons will spend double the amount solicited , upon the shadow of a chance of remote gain , or to gratify a whim in the way of business , they wholly mistake the character of the objects ...
... true that they cannot afford it , for the same persons will spend double the amount solicited , upon the shadow of a chance of remote gain , or to gratify a whim in the way of business , they wholly mistake the character of the objects ...
Pagina 28
... true value of poetry is little understood . It wakes into life and action all the finer sensibilities of our nature , and unbosoms those deep and glowing feelings which mark the true excel- lence of human kind . The soul of poetry is ...
... true value of poetry is little understood . It wakes into life and action all the finer sensibilities of our nature , and unbosoms those deep and glowing feelings which mark the true excel- lence of human kind . The soul of poetry is ...
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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,