Museum of Foreign Literature and Science, Band 13Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith E. Littell, 1828 |
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... language are perfectly as- tounding " !!! and Fine Ear's Family Journal pronounces the Omnipresence of the Deity , " a magnificent and sublime composition , " in which the author has already " reached the no- bler , the noblest ...
... language are perfectly as- tounding " !!! and Fine Ear's Family Journal pronounces the Omnipresence of the Deity , " a magnificent and sublime composition , " in which the author has already " reached the no- bler , the noblest ...
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... language are perfectly astound- ing ; " or of the latter , than that he has pro- duced a " magnificent and sublime composi tion , " in which he has " reached the noblest aspirations of the muse ? " If these critics were unquestionable ...
... language are perfectly astound- ing ; " or of the latter , than that he has pro- duced a " magnificent and sublime composi tion , " in which he has " reached the noblest aspirations of the muse ? " If these critics were unquestionable ...
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... language of the human heart . The poet himself has divided his shorter pieces into Lieder ( songs ) , Romanzen ( ro- mances ) , Sonaten ( sonnets ) , Elegien ( elegies ) , and Varmischtten Gedichte ( miscellaneous poems ) . On the ...
... language of the human heart . The poet himself has divided his shorter pieces into Lieder ( songs ) , Romanzen ( ro- mances ) , Sonaten ( sonnets ) , Elegien ( elegies ) , and Varmischtten Gedichte ( miscellaneous poems ) . On the ...
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... language . Throughout his life he was noted for a strict attention to the offices of religion , observed rigorously the fasts and ceremonies of the church ; nor did his piety consist in mere forms , but partook of that lofty and solemn ...
... language . Throughout his life he was noted for a strict attention to the offices of religion , observed rigorously the fasts and ceremonies of the church ; nor did his piety consist in mere forms , but partook of that lofty and solemn ...
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... language was pure and guarded , free from all imprecations , oaths , and other irreverent expressions . All his great enterprises were undertaken in the name of the Holy Trinity , and he partook of the holy sa- crament previous to ...
... language was pure and guarded , free from all imprecations , oaths , and other irreverent expressions . All his great enterprises were undertaken in the name of the Holy Trinity , and he partook of the holy sa- crament previous to ...
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Seite 274 - THESE, as they change, ALMIGHTY FATHER, these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of THEE. Forth in the pleasing Spring THY beauty walks, THY tenderness and love. Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round ; the forest smiles ; And every sense, and every heart is joy. Then comes THY glory in the Summer months, With light and heat refulgent.
Seite 30 - ... horseback, surrounded by a brilliant cavalcade of Spanish chivalry. The streets were almost impassable from the countless multitude ; the windows and balconies were crowded with the fair ; the very roofs were covered with spectators. It seemed as if the public eye could not be sated with gazing on these trophies of an unknown world ; or on the remarkable man by whom it had been discovered. There was a sublimity in this event that mingled a solemn feeling with the public joy. It was looked upon...
Seite 240 - ... affinity with what is pure and noble. In its legitimate and highest efforts, it has the same tendency and aim with Christianity; that is, to spiritualize our nature. True, poetry has been made the instrument of vice, the pander of bad passions; but, when genius thus stoops, it dims its fires, and...
Seite 263 - I have bought a pocket Milton, which I carry perpetually about with me, in order to study the sentiments — the dauntless magnanimity, the intrepid, unyielding, independence, the desperate daring, and noble defiance of hardship, in that great personage, SATAN.
Seite 22 - ... to give to all remote and unknown regions ? Had he come upon some wild island far in the Indian sea; or was this the famed Cipango itself, the object of his golden fancies? A thousand speculations of the kind must have swarmed upon him, as, with his anxious crews, he waited for the night to pass away ; wondering whether the morning light would reveal a savage wilderness, or dawn upon spicy groves, and glittering fanes, and gilded cities, and all the splendor of oriental civilization.
Seite 21 - Triana; but the reward was afterwards adjudged to the admiral, for having previously perceived the light. The land was now clearly seen about two leagues distant, whereupon they took in sail and laid to, waiting impatiently for the dawn. The thoughts and feelings of Columbus in this little space of time must have been tumultuous and intense. At length, in spite of every difficulty and danger, he had accomplished his object. The great mystery of the ocean was revealed ; his theory, which had been...
Seite 21 - Sanchez of Segovia, and made the same inquiry. By the time the latter had ascended the round-house, the light had disappeared. They saw it once or twice afterwards in sudden and passing gleams, as if it were a torch in the bark of a fisherman, rising and sinking with the waves...
Seite 21 - Suddenly, about ten o'clock, he thought he beheld a light glimmering at a distance ! Fearing that his eager hopes might deceive him, he called to Pedro Gutierrez, gentleman of the king's bed-chamber, and inquired whether he saw a light in that direction ; the latter replied in the affirmative.
Seite 239 - JOHN MILTON, TO ALL THE CHURCHES OF CHRIST, AND TO ALL WHO PROFESS THE CHRISTIAN FAITH THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, PEACE, AND THE RECOGNITION OF THE TRUTH, AND ETERNAL SALVATION IN GoD THE FATHER, AND IN OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST.
Seite 275 - He said he was well aware that his death would occasion some noise, and that every scrap of his writing would be revived against him to the injury of his future reputation; that letters: and verses written with unguarded and improper freedom, and which he earnestly wished to have buried in oblivion, would be handed about by idle vanity or malevolence, when no dread of his resentment would restrain them, or prevent the censures of shrill-tongued malice, or the insidious sarcasms of envy, from pouring...