Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volumen27John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele Leavitt, Throw and Company, 1852 |
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... seems to say , that though he had been office of a sergeant - major , and having loaden his defeated , and had never again an opportunity them who , in the succeeding battle , had their store two stumps with bundles of arrows , he ...
... seems to say , that though he had been office of a sergeant - major , and having loaden his defeated , and had never again an opportunity them who , in the succeeding battle , had their store two stumps with bundles of arrows , he ...
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... seems to us , if the most glorious ac- tions , which are set like jewels in the history of mankind are weighed one against the other in the balance , hardly will those 300 Spartans who in the summer morning sate " combing their long ...
... seems to us , if the most glorious ac- tions , which are set like jewels in the history of mankind are weighed one against the other in the balance , hardly will those 300 Spartans who in the summer morning sate " combing their long ...
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... seems to tell very much in favor of the advocates of Sir Philip Francis . Mr. Francis was a chief - clerk in the War Office at the time Junius began to write , in 1767 ; and continued there till 1772 , when the letters ceased ...
... seems to tell very much in favor of the advocates of Sir Philip Francis . Mr. Francis was a chief - clerk in the War Office at the time Junius began to write , in 1767 ; and continued there till 1772 , when the letters ceased ...
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... seems to have left his sting in the wound , and has since assumed a style of delicate ridicule and repartee . But think what a charming ridicule that must be that lasts , and rises , flash after flash , for an hour and a - half ! " The ...
... seems to have left his sting in the wound , and has since assumed a style of delicate ridicule and repartee . But think what a charming ridicule that must be that lasts , and rises , flash after flash , for an hour and a - half ! " The ...
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... seems to be a consummate cunning in that little trait we have quoted . He was still Privy Seal , but towards the close of 1768 the office having been put in commission , in consequence of his absence ( one of the Miscellaneous Letters ...
... seems to be a consummate cunning in that little trait we have quoted . He was still Privy Seal , but towards the close of 1768 the office having been put in commission , in consequence of his absence ( one of the Miscellaneous Letters ...
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Página 160 - ONCE upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. " Tis some visitor," I muttered, " tapping at my chamber door — Only this, and nothing more.
Página 161 - This it is and nothing more." Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer, " Sir," said I, " or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore; But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping, And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure I heard you " — here I opened wide the door: — Darkness there and nothing more.
Página 160 - I remember it was in the bleak December, And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly I wished the morrow; vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow— sorrow for the lost Lenore, For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore: Nameless here for evermore.
Página 161 - Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter, In there stepped a stately Raven of the saintly days of yore. Not the least obeisance made he; not a...
Página 161 - For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being Ever yet was blessed with seeing bird above his chamber door, Bird or beast upon the sculptured bust above his chamber door, With such name as "Nevermore.
Página 162 - thing of evil - prophet still, if bird or devil! By that Heaven that bends above us - by that God we both adore Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore.
Página 157 - Where thy pale form was laid, with many tears, Nor in the embrace of ocean, shall exist Thy image. Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again, And, lost each human trace, surrendering up Thine individual being, shalt thou...
Página 157 - To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Página 95 - Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong, They learn in suffering what they teach in song.
Página 156 - In happy homes he saw the light Of household fires gleam warm and bright ; Above, the spectral glaciers shone, And from his lips escaped a groan, Excelsior! "Try not the Pass!