The American Whig Review, Volume 3Wiley and Putnam, 1846 - Periodicals |
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... appeared to consider selves mutual concessions of exclusive favor , to which neither European powers nor the United States should be admitted . In most of these cases , their regulations un- favorable to us have yielded to friendly The ...
... appeared to consider selves mutual concessions of exclusive favor , to which neither European powers nor the United States should be admitted . In most of these cases , their regulations un- favorable to us have yielded to friendly The ...
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... appeared that during the year 1825 serious appre- hensions existed that Mexico and Colom- bia were about making a concerted at- tempt to wrest these fine islands from the Spanish crown . This was a cause of great uneasiness to the ...
... appeared that during the year 1825 serious appre- hensions existed that Mexico and Colom- bia were about making a concerted at- tempt to wrest these fine islands from the Spanish crown . This was a cause of great uneasiness to the ...
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... appeared on the distant ridge , until he galloped up into the circle , made his report , and fell back among the crowd . The reason for this proceeding was , that Castro had scattered his war- riors singly , for miles , around the place ...
... appeared on the distant ridge , until he galloped up into the circle , made his report , and fell back among the crowd . The reason for this proceeding was , that Castro had scattered his war- riors singly , for miles , around the place ...
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... appeared , and in delicious revelations the ideal life of calm and holy peace came around me , and in the flushed quiet of that lull , the beguiled Fancy danced with its own airy creatures to the merry click of the castanet a bright ...
... appeared , and in delicious revelations the ideal life of calm and holy peace came around me , and in the flushed quiet of that lull , the beguiled Fancy danced with its own airy creatures to the merry click of the castanet a bright ...
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... appeared to his distempered fancy , enemies who came to rob his Mary " of the victim he had sacrificed to her restless manes , was clear enough , when we remembered what he was mut- tering when he commenced so unexpect- edly and ...
... appeared to his distempered fancy , enemies who came to rob his Mary " of the victim he had sacrificed to her restless manes , was clear enough , when we remembered what he was mut- tering when he commenced so unexpect- edly and ...
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Page 119 - True, I talk of dreams ; Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as thin of substance as the air, And more inconstant than the wind, who wooes Even now the frozen bosom of the north, And, being anger'd, puffs away from thence, Turning his face to the dew-dropping south.
Page 122 - And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus...
Page 164 - She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors: "Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man.
Page 118 - Sweet, rouse yourself ; and the weak wanton Cupid Shall from your neck unloose his amorous fold, And, like a dew-drop from the lion's mane, Be shook to air.
Page 124 - Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note...
Page 186 - TRIUMPHAL arch, that fill'st the sky When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud Philosophy To teach me what thou art — Still seem as to my childhood's sight, A midway station given For happy spirits to alight Betwixt the earth and heaven.
Page 398 - I have sought the Lord night and day, that He would rather slay me than put me upon the doing of this work.
Page 186 - O'er mountain, tower, and town, Or mirror'd in the ocean vast, A thousand fathoms down ! ' ;" '""' As fresh in yon horizon dark, As young thy beauties seem, As when the eagle from the ark First sported in thy beam. For, faithful to its sacred page, Heaven still rebuilds thy span, Nor lets the type grow pale with age That first spoke peace to man.
Page 82 - European powers to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety...
Page 122 - Teach us, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine ; I have never heard Praise of love or wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine.