The North American Review, Volume 50Jared Sparks, James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett, Henry Cabot Lodge O. Everett, 1840 - American fiction Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... less than the classical music of Rome . Thus , although music was almost extinct for a long period , it never perished ; and when , after almost disappear- ing from even the church , it was revived by Ambrose , Bishop of Milan , and ...
... less than the classical music of Rome . Thus , although music was almost extinct for a long period , it never perished ; and when , after almost disappear- ing from even the church , it was revived by Ambrose , Bishop of Milan , and ...
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... less gifted with a sense of art than many other nations , and that this deficiency , connected with various adverse circum- stances to be traced in the history and condition of the country , accounts for the want of a national music ...
... less gifted with a sense of art than many other nations , and that this deficiency , connected with various adverse circum- stances to be traced in the history and condition of the country , accounts for the want of a national music ...
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... less felt here than in the mother country . There is no rich and powerful institution of any kind to take the arts under its patronage . As the same time , we do not enjoy the same opportunity in this country of hearing fine music as in ...
... less felt here than in the mother country . There is no rich and powerful institution of any kind to take the arts under its patronage . As the same time , we do not enjoy the same opportunity in this country of hearing fine music as in ...
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... less of good music in Boston than in the southern cities . In its churches and drawing - rooms we hear less re- markable performances than in New York and Philadelphia . The young ladies do not play and sing so well , as their sis- ters ...
... less of good music in Boston than in the southern cities . In its churches and drawing - rooms we hear less re- markable performances than in New York and Philadelphia . The young ladies do not play and sing so well , as their sis- ters ...
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... less directly , in the safe transportation of merchandise by the same mode of conveyance . There are at all times afloat on the Western waters , probably not less than fifteen thousand human beings , and an amount of property , in boats ...
... less directly , in the safe transportation of merchandise by the same mode of conveyance . There are at all times afloat on the Western waters , probably not less than fifteen thousand human beings , and an amount of property , in boats ...
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Page 193 - O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.
Page 343 - God, and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the Colony unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.
Page 270 - And with them the Being Beauteous,' Who unto my youth was given, More than all things else to love me, And is now a saint in heaven.
Page 293 - CV. *HISTORY OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH ; from the Ascension of Jesus Christ to the Conversion of Constantine. By the late EDWARD BURTON, DD, Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford.
Page 344 - Name of the Council Established at Plymouth in the County of Devon, for the Planting, Ruling, Ordering and Governing of New England in America...
Page 371 - I played a soft and doleful air, I sang an old and moving story — An old rude song, that suited well That ruin wild and hoary. She...
Page 268 - Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! — For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem.
Page 135 - ... to the vessels, citizens, and subjects of the two Powers: it being well understood, that this agreement is not to be construed...
Page 269 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Page 506 - The eternal regions: lowly reverent Towards either throne they bow, and to the ground With solemn adoration down they cast Their crowns inwove with amaranth, and gold; Immortal amaranth, a flower which once In Paradise, fast by the tree of life, Began to bloom...