The National quarterly review, ed. by E.I. SearsEdward Isidore Sears 1874 |
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Agassiz America ancient atolls barrier reefs Ben Jonson Biarni called causes cent centuries character Claverack climate coast companies constitution contains convention coral formation coral reefs criticism Dana death disease drama earth Edda Endymion England English Eumenides existence extend fact faith Faustus federal feet fever Fort Edward genius give glaciers Greenland Hamilton human hundred Iceland instance institutions interest islands Jersey plan known land latter laws less living Madison means ment miles mind moraines moral motion mountains nature névé never northern Northmen observed ocean Peekskill Military Academy period phenomena philosophical present principles reefs region render Robert Greene rocks sanitary Sara Coleridge seems shores subsidence Tamburlaine theory thickness thought tion truth Vinland Virginia plan voyage Washington writings XXVIII.-NO York zoophytes
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 106 - He is too picked, too spruce, too affected, too odd, as it were, too peregrinate as I may call it. Nath. A most singular and choice epithet. ( Takes out his table-book?) Hoi. He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
Seite 135 - Confederation and moreover to legislate in all cases to which the separate States are incompetent, or in which the harmony of the United States may be interrupted by the exercise of individual Legislation; to negative all laws passed by the several States, contravening in the opinion of the National Legislature the articles of Union...
Seite 103 - With neither of them that take offence was I acquainted, and with one of them I care not if I never be...
Seite 117 - O, no end is limited to damned souls. Why wert thou not a creature wanting soul? Or, why is this immortal that thou hast? Ah, Pythagoras' metempsychosis, were that true, This soul should fly from me, and I be changed Unto some brutish beast.
Seite 102 - Yes, trust them not: for there is an upstart Crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his Tiger's heart wrapped in a Player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you: and being an absolute Johannes fac totum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.
Seite 107 - By the moon we sport and play, With the night begins our day : As we dance the dew doth fall, Trip it, little urchins all. Lightly as the little bee, Two by two, and three by three, And about go we, and about go we.
Seite 118 - And there in mire and puddle have I stood This ten days' space; and, lest that I should sleep, One plays continually upon a drum. They give me bread and water, being a king; So that, for want of sleep, and sustenance, My mind's distempered, and my body's numbed, And whether I have limbs or no I know not.
Seite 239 - In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service.
Seite 109 - Now comes my Lover tripping like the Roe, And brings my longings tangled in her hair. To joy her love I'll build a kingly bower. Seated in hearing of a hundred streams...
Seite 103 - I am as sorry as if the original fault had been my fault, because myself have seen his demeanor no less civil than he excellent in the quality he professes. Besides, divers of worship have reported his uprightness of dealing, which argues his honesty, and his facetious grace in writing that approves his art.