The New-York Review, and Atheneum Magazine, 1. köideWilliam Cullen Bryant, Robert Charles Sands, Henry J. Anderson E. Bliss & E. White, 1825 |
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... reader , a strong interest in the characters and fortunes of the personages upon whom the action of the piece depends . This is a consequence of the extraordinary dispensation of which they were the subjects . There is something in the ...
... reader , a strong interest in the characters and fortunes of the personages upon whom the action of the piece depends . This is a consequence of the extraordinary dispensation of which they were the subjects . There is something in the ...
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... writers , or their want of attraction over the minds of readers , that the Exodiad of Cumberland is forgotten , that the Conquest of Ca- naan reposes in the dust of the bookseller's shelves , and that the Sacred Dramas of Miss Hannah ...
... writers , or their want of attraction over the minds of readers , that the Exodiad of Cumberland is forgotten , that the Conquest of Ca- naan reposes in the dust of the bookseller's shelves , and that the Sacred Dramas of Miss Hannah ...
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... reader is made acquainted with its particulars as they occur by a very ingenious and happy method . Hadad and Tamar take shelter in the tent of an Ishmaelite family , who had come to gather spices in the forest of Ephraim , and the ...
... reader is made acquainted with its particulars as they occur by a very ingenious and happy method . Hadad and Tamar take shelter in the tent of an Ishmaelite family , who had come to gather spices in the forest of Ephraim , and the ...
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... readers . The most effectual way of doing this , is to have recourse to notions which make a part of the popular and ... reading , and is constructed of materials that will endure . It is delightful to take up a native production , and ...
... readers . The most effectual way of doing this , is to have recourse to notions which make a part of the popular and ... reading , and is constructed of materials that will endure . It is delightful to take up a native production , and ...
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... readers , draws its demonstration of the divine origi- nal and use of the holy scriptures from the latter , which is a practical and unfailing source of evidence . Without advancing into any distinct exhibition of the severing lines of ...
... readers , draws its demonstration of the divine origi- nal and use of the holy scriptures from the latter , which is a practical and unfailing source of evidence . Without advancing into any distinct exhibition of the severing lines of ...
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Page 71 - Strike ! till the last armed foe expires ! Strike ! for your altars and your fires ! Strike ! for the green graves of your sires ; God, and your native land...
Page 479 - THE melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere. Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the autumn leaves lie dead ; They rustle to the eddying gust, and to the rabbit's tread ; The robin and the wren are flown, and from the shrubs the jay, And from the wood-top calls the crow through all the gloomy day. Where are the flowers, the fair young...
Page 480 - The wind-flower and the violet, they perished long ago, And the brier-rose and the orchis died amid the summer glow ; But on the hill the golden-rod, and the aster in the wood, And the yellow sunflower by the brook...
Page 70 - Suliote band, True as the steel of their tried blades, Heroes in heart and hand. There had the Persian's...
Page 71 - But to the hero, when his sword Has won the battle for the free, Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word, And in its hollow tones are heard The thanks of millions yet to be.
Page 213 - We wish, that this structure may proclaim the magnitude and importance of that event, to every class and every age. We wish, that infancy may learn the purpose of its erection from maternal lips, and that weary and withered age may behold it, and be solaced by the recollections which it suggests.
Page 71 - Come in consumption's ghastly form, The earthquake shock, the ocean storm ; Come when the heart beats high and warm With banquet song, and dance, and wine : And thou art terrible — the tear, The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier, And all we know, or dream, or fear Of agony are thine.
Page 120 - ... mighty whale, shall die. And realms shall be dissolved, and empires be no more, And they shall bow to death, who ruled from shore to shore ; And the great globe itself, so the holy writings tell, With the rolling firmament, where the starry armies dwell, Shall melt with fervent heat — they shall all pass away, Except the love of God, which shall live and last for aye.
Page 479 - Alas ! they all are in their graves, the gentle race of flowers Are lying in their lowly beds, with the fair and good of ours. The rain is falling where they lie, but the cold November rain Calls not from out the gloomy earth the lovely ones again.
Page 328 - MAGEE.— ON ATONEMENT AND SACRIFICE : Discourses and Dissertations on the Scriptural Doctrines of Atonement and Sacrifice, and on the Principal Arguments! advanced, and the Mode of Reasoning employed, by the Opponents of those Doctrines, as held by the Established Church.