The New-England Magazine, Volume 5Joseph Tinker Buckingham, Edwin Buckingham, Samuel Gridley Howe, John Osborne Sargent, Park Benjamin J. T. and E. Buckingham, 1833 - Literature |
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... heard . What though , with spirits crushed and broke , Thy tribes like desert exiles rove , Though Judah feels the stranger's yoke , And Ephraim is a heartless dove ; - Yet , yet shall Judah's LION wake , Yet shall the day of promise ...
... heard . What though , with spirits crushed and broke , Thy tribes like desert exiles rove , Though Judah feels the stranger's yoke , And Ephraim is a heartless dove ; - Yet , yet shall Judah's LION wake , Yet shall the day of promise ...
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... heard . " Do sing , dear nightingale ! " cried a shepherd to the silent bird of song , on a lovely spring evening . " Alas ! " said the nightingale , " the frogs make so loud a noise , that I lose all desire to sing . Do you not hear ...
... heard . " Do sing , dear nightingale ! " cried a shepherd to the silent bird of song , on a lovely spring evening . " Alas ! " said the nightingale , " the frogs make so loud a noise , that I lose all desire to sing . Do you not hear ...
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... heard but little of haunted houses in this vicinity for some time past . Our Yankee thrift , in truth , does not often allow us to keep houses merely for the accommodation of such ghostly tenants as never pay for their lodgings . One of ...
... heard but little of haunted houses in this vicinity for some time past . Our Yankee thrift , in truth , does not often allow us to keep houses merely for the accommodation of such ghostly tenants as never pay for their lodgings . One of ...
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... heard many similar relations . Those who have read Walton's life of Donne , will recollect the theory of that quaint and ex- cellent old author on this subject ; that there is a sympathy of soul , - an electric chain of mental affinity ...
... heard many similar relations . Those who have read Walton's life of Donne , will recollect the theory of that quaint and ex- cellent old author on this subject ; that there is a sympathy of soul , - an electric chain of mental affinity ...
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... heard a strong blaze of fire enveloped the whole team ; and the sled instantly glided down the declivity , with a speed which greatly embarrassed the oxen , which but a moment before had in vain endeavored to move it . The farmer had ...
... heard a strong blaze of fire enveloped the whole team ; and the sled instantly glided down the declivity , with a speed which greatly embarrassed the oxen , which but a moment before had in vain endeavored to move it . The farmer had ...
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Page 139 - But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love ; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
Page 478 - And — but for that sad shrouded eye, That fires not, wins not, weeps not now, And but for that chill, changeless brow, Where cold Obstruction's apathy Appalls the gazing mourner's heart...
Page 156 - When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung : By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there.
Page 473 - NOW was the hour that wakens fond desire In men at sea, and melts their thoughtful heart Who in the morn have bid sweet friends farewell, And pilgrim newly on his road with love Thrills, if he hear the vesper bell from far, That seems to mourn for the expiring day...
Page 98 - Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more : and they are cut off from thy hand.
Page 478 - He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress...
Page 470 - Through me you pass into the city of woe: Through me you pass into eternal pain: Through me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric moved: To rear me was the task of Power divine, Supremest Wisdom, and primeval Love. 19 Before me things create were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.
Page 368 - Thou hast left behind Powers that will work for thee; air, earth, and skies; There's not a breathing of the common wind That will forget thee; thou hast great allies; Thy friends are exultations, agonies, And love, and man's unconquerable mind.
Page 150 - Otis was a flame of fire ; with a promptitude of classical allusions, a depth of research, a rapid summary of historical events and dates, a profusion of legal authorities, a prophetic glance of his eyes into futurity, and a rapid torrent of impetuous eloquence, he hurried away all before him. American Independence was then and there born.
Page 193 - Could trammel up the consequence, and catch With his surcease success : that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here, But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, We'd jump the life to come. But in these cases We still have judgment here ; that we but teach Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return To plague the inventor ; this even-handed justice Commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice To our own lips.