The Yale Literary Magazine, Volume 12, Issue 4Herrick & Noyes, 1847 |
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... once was holy day , Till our priestly , knightly Order , with rosary and sword , Purified from unbelievers , the dwelling of our Lord : And aye through Palestine , above the battle's swell , Before the moated castle , before the yawning ...
... once was holy day , Till our priestly , knightly Order , with rosary and sword , Purified from unbelievers , the dwelling of our Lord : And aye through Palestine , above the battle's swell , Before the moated castle , before the yawning ...
Page 152
... once more admire the tooth - extractor , ere we bid adieu to the village festi- val , " urged Kosker , standing bolt upright in his stirrups , as we rode before the stand on which , with arms bared to the elbows , paced to and fro , as ...
... once more admire the tooth - extractor , ere we bid adieu to the village festi- val , " urged Kosker , standing bolt upright in his stirrups , as we rode before the stand on which , with arms bared to the elbows , paced to and fro , as ...
Page 153
... once ; I'd even rather have the sword ! " In an instant the blade was glistening between his grinders ; one push on the handle , one wrench of the blade , a crackling of bones , a half - suppressed yell , and the tusk flew whizzing in ...
... once ; I'd even rather have the sword ! " In an instant the blade was glistening between his grinders ; one push on the handle , one wrench of the blade , a crackling of bones , a half - suppressed yell , and the tusk flew whizzing in ...
Page 156
... once starving wretch may bless the hour when she gave her mite to the traveling mendicant ? Who knows " - Here the candle , shooting up one bright flame , glared wildly on the noble features of the count , and then suddenly dwindling ...
... once starving wretch may bless the hour when she gave her mite to the traveling mendicant ? Who knows " - Here the candle , shooting up one bright flame , glared wildly on the noble features of the count , and then suddenly dwindling ...
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... once rung to the voice of mirth and revelry . We cannot point to where a Cicero poured forth the thunder of his eloquence , or where a Cæsar , in disobeying the decrees of his country's Senate , plunged that country into all the horrors ...
... once rung to the voice of mirth and revelry . We cannot point to where a Cicero poured forth the thunder of his eloquence , or where a Cæsar , in disobeying the decrees of his country's Senate , plunged that country into all the horrors ...
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Page 160 - In all her length far winding lay, With promontory, creek and bay, And islands that empurpled bright, Floated amid the livelier light, And mountains, that like giants stand, To sentinel enchanted land.
Page 170 - Lines 221—224. We have more which we would gladly say of the delineation of Satan ; especially of the glimpses which are now and then given of his deep anguish and despair, and of the touches of better feelings which are skilfully thrown into the dark picture, both suited and designed to blend with our admiration, dread, and abhorrence, a measure of that sympathy and interest with which every living, thinking being ought to be regarded, and without which all other feelings tend to sin and pain....
Page 176 - To annul this privilege, and instead of an aristocracy of wealth, of more harm and danger, than benefit, to society, to make an opening for the aristocracy of virtue and talent, which nature has wisely provided for the direction of the interests of Society, and scattered with equal hand through all its conditions, was deemed essential to a well-ordered republic.
Page 161 - Into one place, and let dry land appear.' Immediately the mountains huge appear Emergent, and their broad bare backs upheave Into the clouds; their tops ascend the sky: So high as...
Page 168 - tis not done: the attempt and not the deed Confounds us. Hark! I laid their daggers ready; He could not miss 'em. Had he not resembled My father as he slept, I had done't.
Page 148 - The consequence was, seditions in cities, with all their numerous and tragical incidents." "Such things ever will be," says Thucydides, "so long as human nature continues the same." But if this nervous historian had known a balance of three powers, he would not have pronounced the distemper so incurable, but would have added — so long as parties in cities remain unbalanced.
Page 188 - Thy neck is as a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim: thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus.
Page 147 - America, suddenly to erect new systems of laws for their future government, they adopted the method of a wise architect, in erecting a new palace for the residence of his sovereign. They determined to consult Vitruvius, Palladio, and all other writers of reputation in the art ; to examine the most celebrated buildings, whether they remain entire or in ruins ; to compare these with the principles of writers ; and to inquire how far both the theories and models were founded in nature, or created by...