The American Whig Review, Volume 3Wiley and Putnam, 1846 - Periodicals |
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Page 108
... living or dead . The soldiers encompassed the rock , from the highest summit of which they could hear the song of Lureley . The leader , with some of his companions , climbed to the top , and saw the maiden sitting there in sea - green ...
... living or dead . The soldiers encompassed the rock , from the highest summit of which they could hear the song of Lureley . The leader , with some of his companions , climbed to the top , and saw the maiden sitting there in sea - green ...
Page 109
... living or dead , " returned the leader ; " for thou , evil witch , hast murdered the son of our noble Count . " Then Lureley laughed a musical laugh , and springing up quickly , stood on the utmost verge of the rock , clapped her small ...
... living or dead , " returned the leader ; " for thou , evil witch , hast murdered the son of our noble Count . " Then Lureley laughed a musical laugh , and springing up quickly , stood on the utmost verge of the rock , clapped her small ...
Page 129
... living thing - of course , in- sensate brute and huge to our apprehen- sion , but to the vision of Higher Intelli- gences an appareled creature in its robes of cloud and light - swung on its orbed cir- cuit , amid traveling peers : that ...
... living thing - of course , in- sensate brute and huge to our apprehen- sion , but to the vision of Higher Intelli- gences an appareled creature in its robes of cloud and light - swung on its orbed cir- cuit , amid traveling peers : that ...
Page 130
... living , as they appear to us - for how could like create its like . It may pro create - creation is absolute and beyond this ; the power of pro - creation is from it an endowment : so that in applying the term creativeness to any being ...
... living , as they appear to us - for how could like create its like . It may pro create - creation is absolute and beyond this ; the power of pro - creation is from it an endowment : so that in applying the term creativeness to any being ...
Page 132
... living words - through these her constant Anti - types of the heroic virtues in us she illustrates the change- less laws by which they are sustained . She warns us when we have disgraced our lion — or even our hog or donkey na- tures ...
... living words - through these her constant Anti - types of the heroic virtues in us she illustrates the change- less laws by which they are sustained . She warns us when we have disgraced our lion — or even our hog or donkey na- tures ...
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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.