Southern Literary Messenger, Volume 4T.W. White, 1838 |
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... appeared utterly hopeless . A thousand signs , legible to eyes far less keen than his , announced that the fall of his patron was at hand . He shaped his course accordingly . When Essex was brought before the council to answer for his ...
... appeared utterly hopeless . A thousand signs , legible to eyes far less keen than his , announced that the fall of his patron was at hand . He shaped his course accordingly . When Essex was brought before the council to answer for his ...
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... appeared of no account , when opposed to friendship , gratitude , and honor . Such a man would have stood by the side of Essex at the trial , —would have “ spent all his power , might , authority , and amity , ” in soliciting a ...
... appeared of no account , when opposed to friendship , gratitude , and honor . Such a man would have stood by the side of Essex at the trial , —would have “ spent all his power , might , authority , and amity , ” in soliciting a ...
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... appeared , with addi- flattery to the height the vainest and most imperious tions surpassing the original collection both in bulk and nature could be contented with . . . . It had power to reconcile him to those whom he had most ...
... appeared , with addi- flattery to the height the vainest and most imperious tions surpassing the original collection both in bulk and nature could be contented with . . . . It had power to reconcile him to those whom he had most ...
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... appeared in every part of the transaction , would more scandalous and absurd than any of those which do honor to the most respectable public men of our own were the ruin of the House of Stuart . Such a measure , times . The accusers ...
... appeared in every part of the transaction , would more scandalous and absurd than any of those which do honor to the most respectable public men of our own were the ruin of the House of Stuart . Such a measure , times . The accusers ...
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... appeared from his history of himself that he was fertile soil reclaimed , and the canal might be transform - born in France , educated in Germany , had travelled in ed into a rail road — and the juniper soil , which is vege- Italy ...
... appeared from his history of himself that he was fertile soil reclaimed , and the canal might be transform - born in France , educated in Germany , had travelled in ed into a rail road — and the juniper soil , which is vege- Italy ...
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Page 204 - Go, lovely Rose ! Tell her, that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Tell her that's young And shuns to have her graces spied, That hadst thou sprung In deserts, where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died. Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired: Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desired, And not blush so to be admired.
Page 130 - WHEN I consider how my light is spent, Ere half my days in this dark world and wide, And that one Talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest He returning chide, "Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?
Page 195 - We see in needle-works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: for Prosperity doth best discover vice, but Adversity doth best discover virtue.
Page 280 - Wherefore, that here we may briefly end, of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world; all things in heaven• and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Page 147 - And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?
Page 284 - Father, who wouldest not the death of a sinner but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live...
Page 21 - For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next age.
Page 130 - And moan the expense of many a vanish'd sight. Then can I grieve at grievances foregone, And heavily from woe to woe tell o'er The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan, Which I new pay as if not paid before. But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All losses are restored and sorrows end.
Page 88 - The various off rings of the world appear; From each she nicely culls with curious toil, And decks the Goddess with the glitt'ring spoil. This casket India's glowing gems unlocks. And all Arabia breathes from yonder box. The Tortoise here and Elephant unite. Transform 'd to combs, the speckled, and the white. Here files of pins extend their shining rows, Puffs, Powders, Patches, Bibles, Billet-doux.
Page 130 - The canker-blooms have full as deep a dye, As the perfumed tincture of the roses ; Hang on such thorns, and play as wantonly When summer's breath their masked buds discloses ; But, for their virtue* only is their show, They live unwoo'd, and unrespected fade ; Die to themselves. Sweet roses do not so ; Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odours made : And so of you, beauteous and lovely youth, When that shall fade, my verse distils your truth.