American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 18Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew 1841 - American periodicals |
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... remarks in relation to myrio- logues , that they constitute the most valuable portion of the popular Modern Greek Poetry , but from the nature of the case it is also that portion of which it is least easy to procure specimens wherewith ...
... remarks in relation to myrio- logues , that they constitute the most valuable portion of the popular Modern Greek Poetry , but from the nature of the case it is also that portion of which it is least easy to procure specimens wherewith ...
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... remarked when he is seated . Though nearly sixty - five years of age , his brown wig curled into a graceful top - knot of the old school , and sparse gray whiskers , brushed jauntily forward , gave to his bronzed and furrowed features ...
... remarked when he is seated . Though nearly sixty - five years of age , his brown wig curled into a graceful top - knot of the old school , and sparse gray whiskers , brushed jauntily forward , gave to his bronzed and furrowed features ...
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... remark . For my part , though I am but a moderate man , I say with Cassio , I could well wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment . ' The drink of the ancients was wines , sometimes spiced or drugged . Alcohol was ...
... remark . For my part , though I am but a moderate man , I say with Cassio , I could well wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment . ' The drink of the ancients was wines , sometimes spiced or drugged . Alcohol was ...
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... remark , and with a solemnity that struck awe even to the hardened heart of the man who incited him , Wilkins knelt down , and with uplifted hands , and eyes turned toward the throne of the great Omnipotent , called down upon himself ...
... remark , and with a solemnity that struck awe even to the hardened heart of the man who incited him , Wilkins knelt down , and with uplifted hands , and eyes turned toward the throne of the great Omnipotent , called down upon himself ...
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... remarks of the passers - by , and sometimes brooding over his own plans . The street through which he was passing was that great artery of the city called the Bowery ; and just above where it empties itself into the triangular opening ...
... remarks of the passers - by , and sometimes brooding over his own plans . The street through which he was passing was that great artery of the city called the Bowery ; and just above where it empties itself into the triangular opening ...
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Page 359 - As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth : For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone ; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
Page 379 - Where at each step the stranger fears to wake The rattling terrors of the vengeful snake, Where crouching tigers wait their hapless prey, And savage men more murderous still than they ; While oft in whirls the mad tornado flies, Mingling the ravaged landscape with the skies.
Page 259 - But an evil day came upon us. Your forefathers crossed the great water and landed on this island. Their numbers were small. They found friends, and not enemies. They told us they had fled from their own country for fear of wicked men and had come here to enjoy their religion. They asked for a small seat.
Page 89 - Landscape Gardening, adapted to North America; with a View to the Improvement of Country Residences. Comprising Historical Notices and general Principles of the Art, Directions for laying out Grounds and arranging Plantations, the Description and Cultivation of Hardy Trees, decorative Accompaniments of the House and Grounds, the formation of Pieces of Artificial Water, Flower Gardens, etc. With Remarks on Rural Architecture.
Page 261 - You say that you are sent to instruct us how to worship the Great Spirit agreeably to his mind; and, if we do not take hold of the religion which you white people teach we shall be unhappy hereafter. You say that you are right and we are lost. How do we know this to be true? We understand that your religion is written in a book.
Page 260 - Nations only that reproach those chiefs with having given up that country. The Chippewas, and all the nations who lived on those lands westward, call to us and ask us...
Page 260 - You then told us that we were in your hand, and that by closing it you could crush us to nothing, and you demanded from us a great country, as the price of that peace which you had offered us ; — as if our want of strength had destroyed our rights.
Page 461 - He could express it by nothing but his tears, which ran like a river down his cheeks as he looked upon her. He had not stood in this posture long...
Page 355 - The sense of space, and in the end, the sense of time, were both powerfully affected. Buildings, landscapes, &c., were exhibited in proportions so vast as the bodily eye is not fitted to receive. Space swelled, and was amplified to an extent of unutterable infinity. This, however, did not disturb me so much as the vast expansion of time ; I sometimes seemed to have lived for 70 or 100 years in one night ; nay, sometimes had feelings representative of a millennium passed in that time, or, however,...
Page 177 - Nicolini for what he pleased, out of his lion's skin, it was thought proper to discard him; and it is verily believed to this day that had he been brought upon the stage another time, he would certainly have done mischief. Besides, it was objected against the first lion that he reared himself so high upon his hinder paws, and walked in so erect a posture, that he looked more like an old man than a lion.