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... means unfavorable to America before and during the War of 1812. Different con- tributors who reviewed American books were not in agree- ment , but some of them seemed obsessed with the idea that America was so given to trade as to be ...
... means unfavorable to America before and during the War of 1812. Different con- tributors who reviewed American books were not in agree- ment , but some of them seemed obsessed with the idea that America was so given to trade as to be ...
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... means defi- cient in energy or even elegance . But we will venture to say , that the American poets are yet far distant from the time when they can venture , instead of painting the stronger emotions of the soul , to sport with its more ...
... means defi- cient in energy or even elegance . But we will venture to say , that the American poets are yet far distant from the time when they can venture , instead of painting the stronger emotions of the soul , to sport with its more ...
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... means the only circumstance that distinguishes our kinsmen in North America from the inhabitants of the eastern hemisphere . They appear to be proportionably deficient in scientific attainments . The volume now before us , contains the ...
... means the only circumstance that distinguishes our kinsmen in North America from the inhabitants of the eastern hemisphere . They appear to be proportionably deficient in scientific attainments . The volume now before us , contains the ...
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... mean time , we are happy to observe that this author expresses his wishes to preserve and perpetuate harmony between his country and England . The bombastic quality of the lines chosen for quotation and approval causes the reader of to ...
... mean time , we are happy to observe that this author expresses his wishes to preserve and perpetuate harmony between his country and England . The bombastic quality of the lines chosen for quotation and approval causes the reader of to ...
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... means approves the poem . It pronounces the title vulgar , condemns the parody as cheap , resents the slurs on British naval officers , recurs to its old manner in pointing out a bad quantity or two , but cites and praises a number of ...
... means approves the poem . It pronounces the title vulgar , condemns the parody as cheap , resents the slurs on British naval officers , recurs to its old manner in pointing out a bad quantity or two , but cites and praises a number of ...
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Side 19 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
Side 278 - Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake,' ' has most. For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments
Side 27 - I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right; stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.
Side 20 - Cherub, to be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering: but of this be sure, To do aught good never will be our task, But ever to do ill our sole delight, As being the contrary to his high will Whom we resist.
Side 68 - ... the highest end of the mistress-knowledge, by the Greeks called architeklonike, which stands, as I think, in the knowledge of a man's self, in the ethic and politic consideration, with the end of well-doing, and not of well-knowing only...
Side 19 - Extort from me. To bow and sue for grace With suppliant knee, and deify his power Who from the terror of this arm so late Doubted his empire - that were low indeed, That were an ignominy...
Side 112 - What objects are the fountains Of thy happy strain? What fields or waves or mountains? What shapes of sky or plain? What love of thine own kind? what ignorance of pain?
Side 20 - As being the contrary to his high will Whom we resist. If then his providence Out of our evil seek to bring forth good, Our labour must be to pervert that end, And out of good still to find means of evil...
Side 168 - The History of the Late Revolution of the Empire of the Great Mogul...
Side 26 - When common words were less pleasing to the ear, or less distinct in their signification, I have familiarized the terms of philosophy, by applying them to popular ideas...