Lowell Offering and Magazine: Written and Edited by Female Operatives

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Powers and Bagley, 1848
 

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Seite 66 - The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water ; the poop was beaten gold, Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them, the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes.
Seite 5 - These sayings are true at all times, and equally true that " a little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
Seite 99 - A little learning is a dangerous thing ; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring ; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again.
Seite 66 - So many mermaids, tended her i' the eyes, And made their bends adornings ; at the helm A seeming mermaid steers ; the silken tackle Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands, That yarely frame the office. From the barge A strange, invisible perfume hits the sense Of the adjacent wharfs. The city cast Her people out upon her ; and Antony, Enthroned in the market-place, did sit alone, Whistling to the air ; which, but for vacancy, Had gone to gaze on Cleopatra too, And made a gap in nature.
Seite 130 - Time, who changes all, had altered him In soul and aspect as in age : years steal Fire from the mind as vigour from the limb; And life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.
Seite 226 - Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours ; And ask them, what report they bore to heaven : And how they might have borne more welcome news.
Seite 32 - And God said, Let there be Light : and there was Light. And God saw the light, that it was good : and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
Seite 213 - I exult, Casting reserve away, exult to see An Intellectual mastery exercised O'er the blind Elements ; a purpose given, A perseverance fed ; almost a soul Imparted — to brute Matter. I rejoice, Measuring the force of those gigantic powers, That by the thinking Mind have been compelled To serve the Will of feeble-bodied Man.
Seite 66 - Her gentlewomen, like the Nereides, So many mermaids, tended her i' the eyes, And made their bends adornings : at the helm A seeming mermaid steers : the silken tackle Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands, That yarely frame the office. From the barge A strange invisible perfume hits the sense Of the adjacent wharfs. The city cast Her people out upon her ; and Antony, Enthroned i...
Seite 60 - How lost were my days till I met wi' my Jessie, The sports o' the city seemed foolish and vain ; I ne'er saw a nymph I could ca' my dear lassie, Till charm'd wi' sweet Jessie, the flower o

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