American Monthly Knickerbocker, 15. köideCharles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew 1840 |
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... lady's bower , swayed , like his morion's plume , by the faintest breath of beauty ; the tournament , with its ring of loveli- ness , and its champions proving in friendly conflict their strength and skill in arms , amid the ...
... lady's bower , swayed , like his morion's plume , by the faintest breath of beauty ; the tournament , with its ring of loveli- ness , and its champions proving in friendly conflict their strength and skill in arms , amid the ...
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... ladies , instilling into his susceptible mind that refined Platonic idea of love , which constituted so prominent a feature of chivalry . The influence of chivalry on the condition of woman was so remarkable in itself , and has been so ...
... ladies , instilling into his susceptible mind that refined Platonic idea of love , which constituted so prominent a feature of chivalry . The influence of chivalry on the condition of woman was so remarkable in itself , and has been so ...
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... lady bright , to behold a more than mortal prowess . Another means of strengthening chivalrous sentiments , and of per- fecting the knight in the use of arms , was the tournament , in its seve ral kinds . After the descriptions of this ...
... lady bright , to behold a more than mortal prowess . Another means of strengthening chivalrous sentiments , and of per- fecting the knight in the use of arms , was the tournament , in its seve ral kinds . After the descriptions of this ...
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... Lady of Lyons , or Love and Pride , ' he makes the following remark : An indistinct recollection of a very pretty little tale called ' Perouse , or The Bellows - mender , ' suggested the plot of this drama . The incidents are , however ...
... Lady of Lyons , or Love and Pride , ' he makes the following remark : An indistinct recollection of a very pretty little tale called ' Perouse , or The Bellows - mender , ' suggested the plot of this drama . The incidents are , however ...
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... lady . Imagine , then , my surprise , when this arrogant girl turned to her father , in my presence , and said , with a smile of derision upon her haughty lips : Do you think , Sir , that I was born merely to become the wife of an ...
... lady . Imagine , then , my surprise , when this arrogant girl turned to her father , in my presence , and said , with a smile of derision upon her haughty lips : Do you think , Sir , that I was born merely to become the wife of an ...
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Page 375 - I am afraid my uncle will think himself justified by them on this occasion, when he asserts, that it is one of the most difficult things in the world to put a woman right, when she sets out wrong.
Page 24 - I' the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things: For no kind of traffic Would I admit; no name of magistrate; Letters should not be known ; riches, poverty, And use of service, none; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none; No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil; No occupation; all men idle, all, And women too, but innocent and pure : No sovereignty— Seb.
Page 18 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid on a dolphin's back Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song, And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Page 265 - Remember thee? Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat In this distracted globe. Remember thee? Yea, from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, That youth and observation copied there, And thy commandment all alone shall live Within the book and volume of my brain, Unmix'd with baser matter: yes, by heaven!
Page 447 - Nay generally, his very roaring was but the anger of affection : the rage of a Bear, if you will ; but of a Bear bereaved of her whelps. Touch his Religion, glance at the Church of England, or the Divine Right ; and he was upon you ! These things were his Symbols of all that was good, and precious for men; his very Ark of the Covenant : whoso laid hand on them tore asunder his heart of hearts. Not out of hatred to the opponent, but of love to the thing opposed...
Page 160 - Thou earnest them away as with a flood ; they are as a sleep ; in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up ; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
Page 24 - All things in common nature should produce Without sweat or endeavour ; treason, felony, Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine, Would I not have ; but nature should bring forth, Of its own kind, all foizon, all abundance. To feed my innocent people.
Page 298 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
Page 179 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
Page 417 - Secondly, The other fountain from which experience furnisheth the understanding with ideas, is the perception of the operations of our own minds within us, as it is employed about the ideas it has got; which operations when the soul comes to reflect on and consider, do furnish the understanding with another set of ideas, which could not be had from things without; and such are perception, thinking, doubting, believing, reasoning, knowing, willing, and all the different actings of our own minds; which...