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... and inquired what was remarkable in the history of this poor woman . said , there were few more extraordinary persons than Helen Walker , She had been early left an orphan with the charge of a sister considerably younger than ...
... and inquired what was remarkable in the history of this poor woman . said , there were few more extraordinary persons than Helen Walker , She had been early left an orphan with the charge of a sister considerably younger than ...
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It is impossible , however , that any just and adequate conceptions , can be formed of this admirable work from the perusal of that translation , which is remarkable only for its inflated jargon 8 Gessner and his Works . grasp the snake ...
It is impossible , however , that any just and adequate conceptions , can be formed of this admirable work from the perusal of that translation , which is remarkable only for its inflated jargon 8 Gessner and his Works . grasp the snake ...
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translation , which is remarkable only for its inflated jargon , feebleness and bad grammar . The Death of Abel , like the Messiah of Klopstock , stands by itself . The subject of Gessner's poem presents a picture singularly eventful to ...
translation , which is remarkable only for its inflated jargon , feebleness and bad grammar . The Death of Abel , like the Messiah of Klopstock , stands by itself . The subject of Gessner's poem presents a picture singularly eventful to ...
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She was remarkable for her beauty of person and gracefulnesss of manners , to which was united a highly cultivated mind , and a most amiable disposition . A mutual attachment had long subsisted between Gessner and Charlotte ; and it was ...
She was remarkable for her beauty of person and gracefulnesss of manners , to which was united a highly cultivated mind , and a most amiable disposition . A mutual attachment had long subsisted between Gessner and Charlotte ; and it was ...
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... to be suffering from the cold , he took off his jacket , and having carefully wrapped them in it , brought them safely home : he would take no reward , and seemed to be quite unconscious that he had been doing any thing remarkable .
... to be suffering from the cold , he took off his jacket , and having carefully wrapped them in it , brought them safely home : he would take no reward , and seemed to be quite unconscious that he had been doing any thing remarkable .
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Page 117 - Farewell the tranquil mind ! Farewell content ! Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars, That make ambition virtue ! O, farewell ! Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner ; and all quality. Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war ! And O, you mortal engines, whose rude throats The immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit, Farewell ! Othello's occupation's gone ! lago.
Page 203 - That we do hereby declare ourselves a free and independent people, are and of right ought to be a sovereign and selfgoverning association under the control of no power other than that of our God and the General Government of the Congress to the maintenance of which independence we solemnly pledge to each other our mutual co-operation our lives our fortunes and our most sacred honor.
Page 343 - All that he had ever heard - all that he had ever read - when compared with it dwindled into nothing, and vanished like vapour before the sun.
Page 160 - The roar of the sea had long announced their approach to the cliffs, on the summit of which, like the nest of some seaeagle, the founder of the fortalice had perched his eyry. The pale moon, which had hitherto been contending with flitting clouds, now shone out, and gave them a view of the solitary and naked tower, situated on a projecting cliff that beetled on the German Ocean. On three sides the rock was precipitous ; on the fourth, which was that...
Page 447 - Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air...
Page 241 - Oh Venice! Venice! when thy marble walls Are level with the waters, there shall be A cry of nations o'er thy sunken halls, A loud lament along the sweeping sea!
Page 303 - Prologue will show, was composed under a belief that the Imagination not only does not require for its exercise the intervention of supernatural agency, but that, though such agency be excluded, the faculty may be called forth as imperiously, and for kindred results of pleasure, by incidents, within the compass of poetic probability, in the humblest departments of daily life.
Page 307 - Is it a party in a parlour, Crammed just as they on earth were crammed, Some sipping punch — some sipping tea, But, as you by their faces see, All silent, and all damned ! Peter Bell, by W.
Page 478 - I thank God, there are no free schools, nor printing, and I hope we shall not have, these hundred years ; for learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best of government. God keep us from both...
Page 180 - At this moment I also saw a continuity of ice at the distance of seven miles, extending from one- side of the bay to the other, between the nearest cape to the north, which I named after Sir George Warrender, and that to the south, which was named after Viscount Castlereagh.
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| Title | The Analectic Magazine...: Comprising Original Reviews, Biography, Analytical Abstracts of New Publications, Volume 14 Volumes 61-62 of American periodical series, 1800-1850 |
| Publisher | Published and sold by Moses Thomas, 1819 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 27 Nov 2007 |
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