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... - sumption than patriotism . " The best evidence that we can offer of the manner in which the attainments of the people of Great Britain , are estimated in this country , is contained in the catalogues of our 54 AMERICAN LITERATURE .
... - sumption than patriotism . " The best evidence that we can offer of the manner in which the attainments of the people of Great Britain , are estimated in this country , is contained in the catalogues of our 54 AMERICAN LITERATURE .
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this country , is contained in the catalogues of our booksellers . It will be seen , by reference to these documents , that a large pro- portion of English literature has been transplanted to our shores . Many of the English authors ...
this country , is contained in the catalogues of our booksellers . It will be seen , by reference to these documents , that a large pro- portion of English literature has been transplanted to our shores . Many of the English authors ...
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... contain some beauty which a poet would delight to acknowledge . The most cold and tasteless of those by whom it has been abused , have not been able to cite any of its lines which do not show that their censures are as false as they are ...
... contain some beauty which a poet would delight to acknowledge . The most cold and tasteless of those by whom it has been abused , have not been able to cite any of its lines which do not show that their censures are as false as they are ...
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... contained in this article , is rather superficial . In his remarks on the Psalter , the au- thor does injustice to the church of England . The Psalter is translated from the Septuagint , and not from the Hebrew Bible , as he asserts ...
... contained in this article , is rather superficial . In his remarks on the Psalter , the au- thor does injustice to the church of England . The Psalter is translated from the Septuagint , and not from the Hebrew Bible , as he asserts ...
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... contained corrections and im- provements of preceding impressions , and the alterations which the growing advantages of succeeding years might have requir- ed , been regularly made , the public attention would have been so repeatedly ...
... contained corrections and im- provements of preceding impressions , and the alterations which the growing advantages of succeeding years might have requir- ed , been regularly made , the public attention would have been so repeatedly ...
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Page 123 - Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee ; take away this cup from me: nevertheless, not what I will, but what thou wilt.
Page 122 - Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
Page 259 - Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried.
Page 156 - The one was fire and fickleness, a child Most mutable in wishes, but in mind A wit as various, — gay, grave, sage, or wild, — Historian, bard, philosopher combined : He multiplied himself among mankind, The Proteus of their talents : But his own Breathed most in ridicule, — which, as the wind, Blew where it listed, laying all things prone, — Now to o'erthrow a fool, and now to shake a throne.
Page 260 - Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory ; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory.
Page 511 - Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
Page 259 - Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done When the clock struck the hour for retiring; And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame...
Page 119 - Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us ; and to the hills, Cover us.
Page 259 - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow.
Page 433 - I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.