The Vision of Rubeta: An Epic of the Island of ManhattanWeeks, Jordan, 1838 - 424 pages |
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abbess admiration Advertiser Animal Magnetism ARISTOPHANES ARISTOTLE beauty BOITEUSE brain breast BRUNO Canto character Colonel critic cry'd dear delight divine DULNESS Dunciad editor elegant expression eyes Flaccus fool FRETILLE genius give goddess grace hand head heart Heaven hero hero's honor Iliad John Waters journal King lady Letter lips MACDONALD CLARKE MANHATTAN MARIA MONK modest MONK MONTREAL moral mother muse N. Y. American never newsman night nuns o'er observe once paper passage PETRONIUS poem poet poetical poetry POPE prose reader remark RUBETA says scene SCIOPPIUS seen sense soul speak spirit style sublime suppose taste tell thee thine thing thou thought tion truth verse VIRG virgin vulgar WASHINGTON IRVING WILLIAM WORDSWORTH word WORDSWORTH write YORK York American γὰρ δὲ ἐν καὶ μὲν τὸ τῶν
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Page 396 - As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er Heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene ; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head...
Page 328 - It was a lover, and his lass, With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, That o'er the green corn-field did pass, In the spring time, the only pretty ring time, When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding: Sweet lovers love the spring.
Page 273 - AND in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel : only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.
Page 404 - Urania, I shall need Thy guidance, or a greater Muse, if such Descend to earth or dwell in highest heaven ! For I must tread on shadowy ground, must sink Deep — and, aloft ascending, breathe in worlds To which the heaven of heavens is but a veil.
Page 394 - All things are hush'd as Nature's self lay dead, The mountains seem to nod their drowsy head: The little birds in dreams their songs repeat, And sleeping flowers beneath the night dews sweat. Even lust and envy sleep!
Page 394 - To what a low state knowledge of the most obvious and important phenomena had sunk, is evident from the style in which Dryden has executed a description of Night in one of his Tragedies, and Pope his translation of the celebrated moonlight scene in the Iliad.
Page 145 - He was chubby and plump — a right jolly old elf — And I laughed when I saw him in spite of myself. A wink of his eye and a twist of his head Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread.
Page 404 - All strength — all terror, single or in bands, That ever was put forth in personal form — Jehovah — with His thunder, and the choir Of shouting Angels, and the empyreal thrones — I pass them unalarmed.
Page 404 - Not Chaos, not The darkest pit of lowest Erebus, Nor aught of blinder vacancy — scooped out By help of dreams, can breed such fear and awe As fall upon us often when we look Into our minds, into the mind of man, My haunt, and the main region of my song.
Page 222 - Ecce avia, aut metuens divum matertera, cunis Exemit puerum, frontemque atque uda labella Infami digito et lustralibus ante salivis Expiat, urentes oculos inhibere perita.