The Yale Literary Magazine, 4. köideYale Literary Society, 1839 |
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... kind . The attainment of power , is , after all , the ultimate end of human exertion . The annals of our race read to us a dismal lesson of what that desire has effected , when uncurbed by moral feeling and inflamed by passion . By what ...
... kind . The attainment of power , is , after all , the ultimate end of human exertion . The annals of our race read to us a dismal lesson of what that desire has effected , when uncurbed by moral feeling and inflamed by passion . By what ...
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... Kind Friendship yet shall live . Not so with him who vainly boasts The world are all his friends ; For he shall all too quickly find How dark his prospect ends ; Curse his mad folly in despair , His loneliness and gloom Mourn o'er the ...
... Kind Friendship yet shall live . Not so with him who vainly boasts The world are all his friends ; For he shall all too quickly find How dark his prospect ends ; Curse his mad folly in despair , His loneliness and gloom Mourn o'er the ...
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... kind , when ' coming events cast no shadows before , ' and past ones left scarce- ly a trace behind ; there was a period , of which even tradition affords us hardly a particle of information . Over the doings and sayings of that age ...
... kind , when ' coming events cast no shadows before , ' and past ones left scarce- ly a trace behind ; there was a period , of which even tradition affords us hardly a particle of information . Over the doings and sayings of that age ...
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... kind hand so mildly swayed the sceptre , that all bowed down to her decree . She that was most discreet and virtuous , chaste and lovely , was chosen out of all the fairest and loveliest maidens of the land , to be the queen and rule ...
... kind hand so mildly swayed the sceptre , that all bowed down to her decree . She that was most discreet and virtuous , chaste and lovely , was chosen out of all the fairest and loveliest maidens of the land , to be the queen and rule ...
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... kind of gloominess , which is prevented from remaining with us only by the certainty that the morning will bring with it again the return- ing light . So when the life of man is verging towards its close , the clouds begin to gather ...
... kind of gloominess , which is prevented from remaining with us only by the certainty that the morning will bring with it again the return- ing light . So when the life of man is verging towards its close , the clouds begin to gather ...
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Page 223 - I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Page 345 - Oh for a tongue to curse the slave, Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might...
Page 241 - Thanks for that lesson — it will teach To after- warriors more Than high Philosophy can preach, And vainly preached before. That spell upon the minds of men Breaks never to unite again, That led them to adore Those Paged things of sabre-sway, With fronts of brass, and feet of clay.
Page 367 - And it came to pass on the morrow, that the evil spirit from God came upon Saul, and he prophesied in the midst of the house: and David played with his hand, as at other times: and there was a javelin in Saul's hand. 11 And Saul cast the javelin; for he said, I will smite David even to the wall with it.
Page 49 - Alas, sir ! a commonwealth ought to be but as one huge christian personage, one mighty growth and stature of an honest man, as big and compact in virtue as in body...
Page 482 - Before the gates there sat On either side a formidable shape; The one seemed woman to the waist, and fair, But ended foul in many a scaly fold Voluminous and vast, a serpent armed With mortal sting.
Page 2 - An Inquiry respecting the Self-determining Power of the Will; or Contingent Volition. By Jeremiah Day, President of Yale College. New Haven : Herrick & Noyes. 1838.
Page 472 - Which reason, joining or disjoining, frames All what we affirm or what deny, and call Our knowledge or opinion; then retires Into her private cell. When nature rests Oft in her absence mimic Fancy wakes To imitate her; but misjoining shapes, Wild work produces oft, and most in dreams; 111 matching words and deeds long past or late.
Page 104 - For home he had not: home is the resort Of love, of joy, of peace, and plenty, where, Supporting and supported, polish'd friends And dear relations mingle into bliss.
Page 476 - Or what they deal with ! — Man perchance may bind The flower his step hath bruised ; or light anew The torch he quenches ; or to music wind Again the lyre-string from his touch that flew — But for the soul ! — oh ! tremble, and beware To lay rude hands upon God's mysteries there...