The Daguerreotype, Volume 3J. M. Whittemore, 1849 - American periodicals |
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... tion , and keep you waiting for the end of the sentence till you have forgotton the beginning ; while all alike , whether prompt or prosy , ring the regular changes upon those much - abused words of the day , Patriotismus , Einheit ...
... tion , and keep you waiting for the end of the sentence till you have forgotton the beginning ; while all alike , whether prompt or prosy , ring the regular changes upon those much - abused words of the day , Patriotismus , Einheit ...
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... tion ; and separating from them the peasantry of the land by that poverty which , after it had lost the power of oppressing them , had nothing left wherewith to attach them . Real rank , supported in its own person by wealth , influ ...
... tion ; and separating from them the peasantry of the land by that poverty which , after it had lost the power of oppressing them , had nothing left wherewith to attach them . Real rank , supported in its own person by wealth , influ ...
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... tion of juices , imbibing through the roots , dis- tilling through the vessels , and exhaling through the leaves . I weep over this organic regularity of the greater part of the thinking creation , and I consider that man happy , to ...
... tion of juices , imbibing through the roots , dis- tilling through the vessels , and exhaling through the leaves . I weep over this organic regularity of the greater part of the thinking creation , and I consider that man happy , to ...
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... tion of our readers to the rich contents of this valuable work . And yet how little have we said , in comparison with what we might have said . We will conclude with an extract from one of the last letters of Schiller , contained in ...
... tion of our readers to the rich contents of this valuable work . And yet how little have we said , in comparison with what we might have said . We will conclude with an extract from one of the last letters of Schiller , contained in ...
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... tion ; but the funeral dirge is circumstantial may either accept or reject this tradi- evidence in its favor , and it stands upon at least as good authority as the 345 colossal wooden statues of priests , descending in the regular ...
... tion ; but the funeral dirge is circumstantial may either accept or reject this tradi- evidence in its favor , and it stands upon at least as good authority as the 345 colossal wooden statues of priests , descending in the regular ...
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Page 273 - As to the poetical character itself (I mean that sort, of which, if I am anything, I am a member; that sort distinguished from the Wordsworthian, or egotistical Sublime ; which is a thing per se, and stands alone...
Page 273 - A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence, because he has no identity ; he is continually in for, and filling, some other body. The sun, the moon, the sea, and men and women, who are creatures of impulse, are poetical, and have about them an unchangeable attribute ; the poet has none, no identity. He is certainly the most unpoetical of all God's creatures.
Page 273 - A poet is the most unpoetical of any thing in existence, because he has no Identity — he is continually in for and filling some other Body — The Sun, the Moon, the Sea and Men and Women, who are creatures of impulse, are poetical, and have about them an unchangeable attribute; the poet has none, no identity — he is certainly the most unpoetical of all God's Creatures.
Page 307 - ... trees ; Bright volumes of vapour through Lothbury glide, And a river flows on through the vale of Cheapside. Green pastures she views in the midst of the dale, Down which she so often has tripped with her pail ; And a single small Cottage, a nest like a dove's, The one only dwelling on earth that she loves. She looks, and her heart is in heaven : but they fade, The mist and the river, the hill and the shade : The stream will not flow, and the hill will not rise, And the colours have all passed...
Page 468 - CANST thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down? Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?
Page 272 - Castle of indolence. My passions are all asleep from my having slumbered till nearly eleven and weakened the animal fibre all over me to a delightful sensation about three degrees on this side of faintness— if I had teeth of pearl and the breath of lillies I should call it langour— but as I am * I must call it Laziness.
Page 327 - When we could endure no more upon the water, we to a little ale-house on the Bankside, over against the Three Cranes, and there staid till it was dark almost, and saw the fire grow; and, as it grew darker, appeared more and more, and in corners and upon steeples, and between churches and houses as far as we could see up the hill of the City,, in a most horrid malicious bloody flame, not like the fine flame of an ordinary fire.
Page 46 - PRINCIPLES OF ZOOLOGY; Touching the Structure, Development, Distribution, and Natural Arrangement, of the RACES OF ANIMALS, living and extinct, with numerous Illustrations. For the use of Schools and Colleges. Part I. COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY. By Louis AGASSIZ and AUGUSTUS A. GOULD. Revised edition.
Page 273 - ... it has no self — it is every thing and nothing — It has no character — it enjoys light and shade; it lives in gusto, be it foul or fair, high or low, rich or poor, mean or elevated — it has as much delight in conceiving an lago as an Imogen.
Page 327 - Lord, what can I do? I am spent: people will not obey me. I have been pulling down houses; but the fire overtakes us faster than we can do it.