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... admirable monuments of Palenque and Yuca- tan . " In the United States how much rancorous in- vective , malignant humor , violent passion , fretful impatience or testiness , is lost in the immensity of space , and the very latitude of ...
... admirable monuments of Palenque and Yuca- tan . " In the United States how much rancorous in- vective , malignant humor , violent passion , fretful impatience or testiness , is lost in the immensity of space , and the very latitude of ...
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... admirable Journal . We do not consider it beneath our dignity to borrow wit and wisdom from Punch ; and , when we think it good enough , make ase of the thunder of The Times . We shall increase our variety by importations from the ...
... admirable Journal . We do not consider it beneath our dignity to borrow wit and wisdom from Punch ; and , when we think it good enough , make ase of the thunder of The Times . We shall increase our variety by importations from the ...
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... admirable Life tain women by the boastful detail of his conquests of his illustrious father - in - law ; on the contrary , it over them . He judged wisely , and more like a forms its highest encomium . The charm of that man who had met ...
... admirable Life tain women by the boastful detail of his conquests of his illustrious father - in - law ; on the contrary , it over them . He judged wisely , and more like a forms its highest encomium . The charm of that man who had met ...
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... few the Lives of the Poets , in- teresting as they are , and admirable as are the criticisms on our greatest authors which they con- tain . But Boswell's Life of Johnson is in every- AUTOBIOGRAPHY - CHATEAUBRIAND'S MEMOIRS . 51.
... few the Lives of the Poets , in- teresting as they are , and admirable as are the criticisms on our greatest authors which they con- tain . But Boswell's Life of Johnson is in every- AUTOBIOGRAPHY - CHATEAUBRIAND'S MEMOIRS . 51.
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... admirable reflections , the sagacious remarks it contains , from one end of the world to the other . The secret of this astonishing success is to be found in the caustic tone , sententious brevity , and sterling good sense of Johnson ...
... admirable reflections , the sagacious remarks it contains , from one end of the world to the other . The secret of this astonishing success is to be found in the caustic tone , sententious brevity , and sterling good sense of Johnson ...
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Página 373 - Hear the loud alarum bells — Brazen bells ! What a tale of terror now their turbulency tells ! In the startled ear of night How they scream out their affright ! Too much horrified to speak, They can only shriek, shriek, Out of tune ! In a clamorous appealing to the mercy of the fire...
Página 400 - Mark you this, Bassanio, The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul, producing holy witness, Is like a villain with a smiling cheek ; A goodly apple rotten at the heart: O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath ! Shy.
Página 395 - At the same time, let the sovereign authority of this country over the colonies be asserted in as strong terms as can be devised, and be made to extend to every point of legislation whatsoever; that we may bind their trade, confine their manufactures, and exercise every power whatsoever, except that of taking their money out of their pockets without their consent.
Página 373 - Oh, the bells, bells, bells! What a tale their terror tells Of Despair! How they clang, and clash, and roar! What a horror they outpour On the bosom of the palpitating air! Yet the ear it fully knows, By the twanging, And the clanging, How the danger ebbs and flows...
Página 401 - A light broke in upon my brain, — It was the carol of a bird; It ceased, and then it came again, The sweetest song ear ever heard, And mine was thankful till my eyes Ran over with the glad surprise, And they that moment could not see I was the mate of misery.
Página 380 - Soon were lost in a maze of sluggish and devious waters, Which, like a network of steel, extended in every direction. Over their heads the towering and tenebrous boughs of the cypress Met in a dusky arch, and trailing mosses in mid-air Waved like banners that hang on the walls of ancient cathedrals.
Página 401 - I saw the dungeon walls and floor Close slowly round me as before, I saw the glimmer of the...
Página 141 - Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied, for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant* sung; Silence was pleased: now...
Página 380 - Fair was she to behold, that maiden of seventeen summers. Black were her eyes as the berry that grows on the thorn by the wayside— Black, yet how softly they gleamed beneath the brown shade of her tresses!
Página 400 - Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead ! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility ; But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger...