The Yale Literary Magazine, Volume 2Herrick & Noyes., 1836 |
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... nature are to the indulgence of feelings and passions , which do even less to establish our characters upon a basis dignified and elevated , than they do to substantiate our claims to liberality and impartiality . Envy , prejudice , the ...
... nature are to the indulgence of feelings and passions , which do even less to establish our characters upon a basis dignified and elevated , than they do to substantiate our claims to liberality and impartiality . Envy , prejudice , the ...
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... nature , or such as have only existed in the imaginary conceptions of interested malice . This is a favor uniformly claimed and conceded to the failings of humanity- but is it all which departed worth has to hope from our generosity ...
... nature , or such as have only existed in the imaginary conceptions of interested malice . This is a favor uniformly claimed and conceded to the failings of humanity- but is it all which departed worth has to hope from our generosity ...
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... nature , and admit of no particular local appli- cation ; but there are those which bear directly , and with peculiar force , upon the interests of our own nation . It may not be amiss , in this connection , to bestow a passing ...
... nature , and admit of no particular local appli- cation ; but there are those which bear directly , and with peculiar force , upon the interests of our own nation . It may not be amiss , in this connection , to bestow a passing ...
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... Nature is obsolete . Ease and freedom are a pair of simpletons . Simplicity is a misnomer . We are all huzza boys ... natural deduction , that novels have their part to perform in balancing the mind . They are preferable to poetry ...
... Nature is obsolete . Ease and freedom are a pair of simpletons . Simplicity is a misnomer . We are all huzza boys ... natural deduction , that novels have their part to perform in balancing the mind . They are preferable to poetry ...
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... nature . How little we know of the future . A man can't see the length of his nose , and he have a long one ; nor does the joy of to- day insure a hope to - morrow . I had started full of life and expec- tation ; I was sleek as a mouse ...
... nature . How little we know of the future . A man can't see the length of his nose , and he have a long one ; nor does the joy of to- day insure a hope to - morrow . I had started full of life and expec- tation ; I was sleek as a mouse ...
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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!