The Southern literary messenger, 28–29. köide1859 |
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... expression tender and sweet , it is wild yet sad , the spirit of freedom , the free- dom of the forest and the seas , breathes through its soft melancholy . I think it must be original with you . These are reasons sufficient to induce ...
... expression tender and sweet , it is wild yet sad , the spirit of freedom , the free- dom of the forest and the seas , breathes through its soft melancholy . I think it must be original with you . These are reasons sufficient to induce ...
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... expression . Heavens ! how could I have been so blind ! I am dishonoured in my child- my only child ! But there is help for every one who will help himself and never yield . You , however , must aid me , as I know you will . " " Now and ...
... expression . Heavens ! how could I have been so blind ! I am dishonoured in my child- my only child ! But there is help for every one who will help himself and never yield . You , however , must aid me , as I know you will . " " Now and ...
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... expression might be more animating . FROM THE SAME TO THE SAME . New York , 22d , 1786 . Mr. Our foreign affairs are much in the same situation as when you left us . Adams has done nothing with the British Ministry , and Mr. Jay has ...
... expression might be more animating . FROM THE SAME TO THE SAME . New York , 22d , 1786 . Mr. Our foreign affairs are much in the same situation as when you left us . Adams has done nothing with the British Ministry , and Mr. Jay has ...
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... expression that you think me vain - but the manner in which I am flattered is remarkable . The girls set their caps at me terribly . I am not satirising any body , and don't want you to think I am conceited : but really Flora Blank is ...
... expression that you think me vain - but the manner in which I am flattered is remarkable . The girls set their caps at me terribly . I am not satirising any body , and don't want you to think I am conceited : but really Flora Blank is ...
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... expression eminently indicative of the post he occu- pies . He looks the Universal Benevo- lence Society : -he walks in a way that says , " Come all ye poor and unfortunate -we are prepared to honour your drafts . " Croesus is high in ...
... expression eminently indicative of the post he occu- pies . He looks the Universal Benevo- lence Society : -he walks in a way that says , " Come all ye poor and unfortunate -we are prepared to honour your drafts . " Croesus is high in ...
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Page 13 - AH ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep, where Fame's proud temple shines afar? Ah ! who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with Fortune an eternal war? Checked by the scoff of Pride, by Envy's frown, And Poverty's unconquerable bar, In life's low vale remote has pined alone, Then dropt into the grave, unpitied and unknown ! And yet, the languor of inglorious days Not equally oppressive is to all.
Page 146 - Sleepless! and soon the small birds' melodies Must hear, first uttered from my orchard trees; And the first cuckoo's melancholy cry. Even thus last night, and two nights more, I lay, And could not win thee, Sleep! by any stealth: So do not let me wear...
Page 170 - And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the Most High? 12 Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world ; they increase in riches. 13 Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency . 14 For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.
Page 145 - Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast Seal up the ship-boy's eyes and rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge ; And in the visitation...
Page 140 - Now when the sun was setting, all they that had any sick with divers diseases brought them unto him; and he laid his hands on every one of them, and healed them.
Page 366 - Nay, take my life and all; pardon not that: You take my house, when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house; you take my life, When you do take the means whereby I live.
Page 146 - Come, Sleep, O Sleep, the certain knot of peace. The baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, The poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, The indifferent judge between the high and low!
Page 145 - Seized on her sinless soul? Must then that peerless form Which love and admiration cannot view Without a beating heart, those azure veins Which steal like streams along a field of snow, That lovely outline, which is fair As breathing marble, perish?
Page 145 - With deafning clamours in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly," death itself awakes ? Can'st thou, O partial sleep ! give thy repose To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude ; And in the calmest and most stillest night, With all appliances and means to boot, Deny it to a king? Then, happy low, lie down ! Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
Page 468 - Let your reforms for a moment go ! Look to your butts, and take good aims ! Better a rotten borough or so Than a rotten fleet and a city in flames...