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 11
... writers , than each of those same writers and his productions receive , after the palsy of death has descended upon the hand that recorded , and the heart that indited . We need not cite examples in favor of the foregoing declarations ...
... writers , than each of those same writers and his productions receive , after the palsy of death has descended upon the hand that recorded , and the heart that indited . We need not cite examples in favor of the foregoing declarations ...
Pagina 12
... writers we have mentioned . Their actual merits are in our opinion undervalued , on account of the complaints oc- casionally made of them by journalists , that no one of them has produc- ed a long poem . This is very true ; but we do ...
... writers we have mentioned . Their actual merits are in our opinion undervalued , on account of the complaints oc- casionally made of them by journalists , that no one of them has produc- ed a long poem . This is very true ; but we do ...
Pagina 15
... writer , as contained in the Philadelphia Monthly Review . In that periodical he speaks of Geoffery Crayon as a scribbler of " skip - along , trim - the - hop , popinjay prose ; whose Sketch Book abounds with heavy , disagreeable matter ...
... writer , as contained in the Philadelphia Monthly Review . In that periodical he speaks of Geoffery Crayon as a scribbler of " skip - along , trim - the - hop , popinjay prose ; whose Sketch Book abounds with heavy , disagreeable matter ...
Pagina 17
... writers through- out the country . The ridicule he excited , awakened his angry muse ; he buried his novels in his Pegasus , and " rode in mud . " We doubt whether the most frenzied effusions of Nat . Lee are wilder than the doggerels ...
... writers through- out the country . The ridicule he excited , awakened his angry muse ; he buried his novels in his Pegasus , and " rode in mud . " We doubt whether the most frenzied effusions of Nat . Lee are wilder than the doggerels ...
Pagina 20
... writer to a virgin of his ac- quaintance , commences thus : " Maid , of the lovely - rolling eye ! " In truth , he appears always to have preferred Venus to Minerva , and a defective education was the result , which is every where ...
... writer to a virgin of his ac- quaintance , commences thus : " Maid , of the lovely - rolling eye ! " In truth , he appears always to have preferred Venus to Minerva , and a defective education was the result , which is every where ...
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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,