The American Whig Review, Volume 3Wiley and Putnam, 1846 - Periodicals |
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... signs which Indians and all ex- hangin ' a man , too ! Pretty spot o ' work ! perienced trailers read with unerring pre- got any bull - neck Judges - got any wea- cision , they were convinced that he had zen - faced lawyers out here to ...
... signs which Indians and all ex- hangin ' a man , too ! Pretty spot o ' work ! perienced trailers read with unerring pre- got any bull - neck Judges - got any wea- cision , they were convinced that he had zen - faced lawyers out here to ...
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... sign requiring great secrecy , had fortu- nately fallen asleep , after devouring , like a famished wild beast , an enormous meal . We set off in silence for the Rancho , ac- companied by Castro and his warriors on foot . They were sent ...
... sign requiring great secrecy , had fortu- nately fallen asleep , after devouring , like a famished wild beast , an enormous meal . We set off in silence for the Rancho , ac- companied by Castro and his warriors on foot . They were sent ...
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... sign or mark , such as must signify the presence of a divine influence . ( I now repeat the words of Anaxagoras ) : If any man is so fortunate as to know such marks , and is able to shape them out of marble or ivory , can he be justly ...
... sign or mark , such as must signify the presence of a divine influence . ( I now repeat the words of Anaxagoras ) : If any man is so fortunate as to know such marks , and is able to shape them out of marble or ivory , can he be justly ...
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... signs of justice in another , it is necessary that we should ourselves be inclined to justice ; and if this is true at all , it is so altogether ; and they will best discern virtue in others who have most of it in themselves . How ...
... signs of justice in another , it is necessary that we should ourselves be inclined to justice ; and if this is true at all , it is so altogether ; and they will best discern virtue in others who have most of it in themselves . How ...
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... sign , which is artisti- cal - the poet and the statuary will desire to have a knowledge of the natural signs of character , and will labor diligently to acquire them . They will be able not only to imitate what they have seen , but to ...
... sign , which is artisti- cal - the poet and the statuary will desire to have a knowledge of the natural signs of character , and will labor diligently to acquire them . They will be able not only to imitate what they have seen , but to ...
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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.