The New-York Review, and Atheneum Magazine, Volume 1William Cullen Bryant, Robert Charles Sands, Henry J. Anderson E. Bliss & E. White, 1825 |
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... effect of these subjects upon the mind of the writer is not such as to ensure the free and happy exertion of his pow- ers . The habitual reverence with which we regard them , awes and represses the imagination . The dread of taking ...
... effect of these subjects upon the mind of the writer is not such as to ensure the free and happy exertion of his pow- ers . The habitual reverence with which we regard them , awes and represses the imagination . The dread of taking ...
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... effect , and though composed with little skill in the deli- neation of character , and overloaded with ambitious ornament , are yet much sought after , and read with interest and pleasure . It is owing , we suspect , to some other cause ...
... effect , and though composed with little skill in the deli- neation of character , and overloaded with ambitious ornament , are yet much sought after , and read with interest and pleasure . It is owing , we suspect , to some other cause ...
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... effect which his character , and the part he takes in the action , are fit- ted to produce . At present , the terrific interest inspired by these is in some degree weakened by being divided among a number of agents . care . The work ...
... effect which his character , and the part he takes in the action , are fit- ted to produce . At present , the terrific interest inspired by these is in some degree weakened by being divided among a number of agents . care . The work ...
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... effect of distance and congenial interests , to remain a long time on terms of peace . The condition of the states of continental Europe is pre- cisely the reverse of ours . A number of independent societies occupy adjacent territories ...
... effect of distance and congenial interests , to remain a long time on terms of peace . The condition of the states of continental Europe is pre- cisely the reverse of ours . A number of independent societies occupy adjacent territories ...
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... effects . It imposes a pecuniary burden of vexatious magnitude on the industrious classes of society ; it operates ... effect of checking a deluge of Vandalism , like that which , in ancient times , poured upon the delicious regions of ...
... effects . It imposes a pecuniary burden of vexatious magnitude on the industrious classes of society ; it operates ... effect of checking a deluge of Vandalism , like that which , in ancient times , poured upon the delicious regions of ...
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Page 71 - Strike ! till the last armed foe expires ! Strike ! for your altars and your fires ! Strike ! for the green graves of your sires ; God, and your native land...
Page 479 - THE melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere. Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the autumn leaves lie dead ; They rustle to the eddying gust, and to the rabbit's tread ; The robin and the wren are flown, and from the shrubs the jay, And from the wood-top calls the crow through all the gloomy day. Where are the flowers, the fair young...
Page 480 - The wind-flower and the violet, they perished long ago, And the brier-rose and the orchis died amid the summer glow ; But on the hill the golden-rod, and the aster in the wood, And the yellow sunflower by the brook...
Page 70 - Suliote band, True as the steel of their tried blades, Heroes in heart and hand. There had the Persian's...
Page 71 - But to the hero, when his sword Has won the battle for the free, Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word, And in its hollow tones are heard The thanks of millions yet to be.
Page 213 - We wish, that this structure may proclaim the magnitude and importance of that event, to every class and every age. We wish, that infancy may learn the purpose of its erection from maternal lips, and that weary and withered age may behold it, and be solaced by the recollections which it suggests.
Page 71 - Come in consumption's ghastly form, The earthquake shock, the ocean storm ; Come when the heart beats high and warm With banquet song, and dance, and wine : And thou art terrible — the tear, The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier, And all we know, or dream, or fear Of agony are thine.
Page 120 - ... mighty whale, shall die. And realms shall be dissolved, and empires be no more, And they shall bow to death, who ruled from shore to shore ; And the great globe itself, so the holy writings tell, With the rolling firmament, where the starry armies dwell, Shall melt with fervent heat — they shall all pass away, Except the love of God, which shall live and last for aye.
Page 479 - Alas ! they all are in their graves, the gentle race of flowers Are lying in their lowly beds, with the fair and good of ours. The rain is falling where they lie, but the cold November rain Calls not from out the gloomy earth the lovely ones again.
Page 328 - MAGEE.— ON ATONEMENT AND SACRIFICE : Discourses and Dissertations on the Scriptural Doctrines of Atonement and Sacrifice, and on the Principal Arguments! advanced, and the Mode of Reasoning employed, by the Opponents of those Doctrines, as held by the Established Church.