The Spirit of the English MagazinesMonroe and Francis, 1825 |
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... story of hapless affection , and full of the most touching passages . We will cite a few brief instances which are the easiest detached . It opens with this bold yet sweet exordium : ' Tis a wild tale -- and sad , too The Improvisatrice ...
... story of hapless affection , and full of the most touching passages . We will cite a few brief instances which are the easiest detached . It opens with this bold yet sweet exordium : ' Tis a wild tale -- and sad , too The Improvisatrice ...
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... stories seem to be imperishable . They are , it is true , doomed to undergo many transmutations , and to appear embodied under different forms ; but the informing spirit which captivates our attention , is the same , whatever language ...
... stories seem to be imperishable . They are , it is true , doomed to undergo many transmutations , and to appear embodied under different forms ; but the informing spirit which captivates our attention , is the same , whatever language ...
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... story of the Dean of Santiago , which we subjoin , in a free translation from the Spanish of Prince Don Juan Manuel , is one of the finest specimens of this species of composition . But we must de- fer making any observations on its ...
... story of the Dean of Santiago , which we subjoin , in a free translation from the Spanish of Prince Don Juan Manuel , is one of the finest specimens of this species of composition . But we must de- fer making any observations on its ...
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... stories , sometimes twelve or fifteen above each other , all supported by colon- ades , between which the whole citizens of this subterraneous commonwealth are seen to walk , like men in the streets of a town . The cells of the wasps ...
... stories , sometimes twelve or fifteen above each other , all supported by colon- ades , between which the whole citizens of this subterraneous commonwealth are seen to walk , like men in the streets of a town . The cells of the wasps ...
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... stories were circulated , higher flights of poetry , yet they con- which exhibited him in weakness or in sented to feel by faith , and believed , folly . But there is every reason to be- because the newspapers believed , that lieve ...
... stories were circulated , higher flights of poetry , yet they con- which exhibited him in weakness or in sented to feel by faith , and believed , folly . But there is every reason to be- because the newspapers believed , that lieve ...
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Страница 379 - O that I had wings like a dove : for then would I flee away, and be at rest.
Страница 258 - Live not the stars and mountains ? Are the waves Without a spirit ? Are the dropping caves Without a feeling in their silent tears ? No, no ; they woo and clasp us to their spheres, Dissolve this clog and clod of clay before Its hour, and merge our soul in the great shore.
Страница 479 - Was on the streams of Guadalquiver, To gold converting, one by one, The ripples of the mighty river, Beside me on the bank was seated A Seville girl, with auburn hair, And eyes that might the world have cheated, — A wild, bright, wicked, diamond pair ! She stooped, and wrote upon the sand, Just as the loving sun was going, With such a soft, small, shining hand, I could have sworn 't was silver flowing. Her words were three, and not one more, What could Diana's motto be ? The siren wrote upon the...
Страница 479 - When words come down like dews unsought With gleams of deep enthusiast thought, And fancy in her heaven flies free — They come, my love, they come from thee.
Страница 112 - PITY the sorrows of a poor old man, Whose trembling limbs have borne him to your door, Whose days are dwindled to the shortest span ; Oh, give relief, and heaven will bless your store.
Страница 263 - O'er beauty's fall ; Her praise resounds no more, when mantled in her pall. The most beloved on earth Not long survives to-day ; So music past is obsolete, And yet 'twas sweet, 'twas passing sweet, But now 'tis gone away...
Страница 340 - is there not a window in your house on purpose for you to look through?" " For all that," resumed the pendulum, "it is very dark here: and although there is a window, I dare not stop, even for an instant, to look out.
Страница 340 - may I be allowed to inquire, if that exertion was at all fatiguing or disagreeable to you ?" " Not in the least," replied the pendulum; " it is not of six strokes that I complain, nor of sixty, but of millions.
Страница 112 - Heaven has brought me to the state you see ; And your condition may be soon like mine, The child of sorrow and of misery.
Страница 50 - ... repressed with a smile the hopes of his friends, and told them he had lived long enough. As his life drew near a close, the eager yet decorous solicitude of his fellow townsmen increased.