The Yale Literary Magazine, Volume 2Herrick & Noyes., 1836 |
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... heart . The first point worthy of particular attention , is , the influence of public honors paid to the memory of the illustrious dead , upon the character of a nation abroad . Any addition to the reputation of an individual is , in ...
... heart . The first point worthy of particular attention , is , the influence of public honors paid to the memory of the illustrious dead , upon the character of a nation abroad . Any addition to the reputation of an individual is , in ...
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... hearts come bursting into voice- I love to hear their melody , it bids my heart rejoice . But there's a brighter beauty when the gentle breath of song , O'er the dewy bloom of woman's lip steals murmuring along , Where the dying cadence ...
... hearts come bursting into voice- I love to hear their melody , it bids my heart rejoice . But there's a brighter beauty when the gentle breath of song , O'er the dewy bloom of woman's lip steals murmuring along , Where the dying cadence ...
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... heart has ached , and I have felt As if this world had cast me from its love , The young , the gay , the sweet , the beautiful , To whose affections I had link'd my soul , As kindred souls link and grow into one ; - ' When I have paus'd ...
... heart has ached , and I have felt As if this world had cast me from its love , The young , the gay , the sweet , the beautiful , To whose affections I had link'd my soul , As kindred souls link and grow into one ; - ' When I have paus'd ...
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... heart ache , when memory may come with her forms and things and changes and chances , with her hues and brightness and loveliness and music and poetry , with her thousand hopes and dreams and anticipations and cherish'd prospects ; when ...
... heart ache , when memory may come with her forms and things and changes and chances , with her hues and brightness and loveliness and music and poetry , with her thousand hopes and dreams and anticipations and cherish'd prospects ; when ...
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... heart . Tis the merry voiced Spring mated with the gorgeous grandeur of the Autumn . Most of us have sat in a room a thousand times where a fine boy was playing , and looked at him till the heart ached . We think of the little fellow's ...
... heart . Tis the merry voiced Spring mated with the gorgeous grandeur of the Autumn . Most of us have sat in a room a thousand times where a fine boy was playing , and looked at him till the heart ached . We think of the little fellow's ...
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Page 33 - A Dandy is a Clothes-wearing Man, a Man whose trade, office, and existence consists in the wearing of Clothes. Every faculty of his soul, spirit, purse, and person is heroically consecrated to this one object, the wearing of Clothes wisely and well : so that as others dress to live, he lives to dress.
Page 120 - But now his nose is thin, And it rests upon his chin Like a staff, And a crook is in his back, And a melancholy crack In his laugh.
Page 311 - Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since: their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts; — not so thou. Unchangeable save to thy wild waves
Page 264 - 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 123 - Certainly a man has a right to do what he likes with his own, but then every man who does so must make up his mind to certain little penalties.
Page 282 - The passage of the Patowmac through the Blue ridge is perhaps one of the most stupendous scenes in nature. You stand on a very high point of land. On your right comes up the Shenandoah, having ranged along the foot of the mountain an hundred miles to seek a vent.
Page 121 - He took the paper, and I watched, And saw him peep within ; At the first line he read, his face Was all upon the grin. He read the next ; the grin grew broad, And shot from ear to ear ; He read the third ; a chuckling noise I now began to hear. The fourth ; he broke into a roar ; • The fifth ; his waistband split ; The sixth ; he burst five buttons off, And tumbled in a fit. Ten days and nights, with sleepless eye, I watched that wretched man, And since, I never dare to write As funny as I can.
Page 282 - But the distant finishing which nature has given to the picture is of a very different character. It is a true contrast to the fore-ground. It is as placid and delightful, as that is wild and tremendous.
Page 121 - They were so queer, so very queer, I laughed as I would die ; Albeit, in the general way, A sober man am I. I called my servant, and he came ; How kind it was of him To mind a slender man like me, He of the mighty limb.
Page 253 - Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world — though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst — the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!