Tales and Sketches for the Fireside, by the Best American Authors: Selected from Putnam's MagazineA. Dowling, 1857 - 672 páginas |
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... Italian vengeance , and fatal wine of the Borgias - whose mere odor withered the breather's life away , as the Autumn withers leaves . But it will suffice , and there is romance in the death that it brings . Let the thought which has ...
... Italian vengeance , and fatal wine of the Borgias - whose mere odor withered the breather's life away , as the Autumn withers leaves . But it will suffice , and there is romance in the death that it brings . Let the thought which has ...
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... Italian vengeance , and fatal wine of the Borgias ; but , perchance , with some unutterable , savage , and frightful rage at the life which he had never known how to command , and turn to profit or to honor ; and with a violent desire ...
... Italian vengeance , and fatal wine of the Borgias ; but , perchance , with some unutterable , savage , and frightful rage at the life which he had never known how to command , and turn to profit or to honor ; and with a violent desire ...
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... Italy , where every interest arising from historical association is blended with all that is magnificent in scenery , mellow and gorgeous in atmos- phere , and luxuriant in vegetation , that a love for rural life and an interest in the ...
... Italy , where every interest arising from historical association is blended with all that is magnificent in scenery , mellow and gorgeous in atmos- phere , and luxuriant in vegetation , that a love for rural life and an interest in the ...
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... Italy ; like them , scampering across the walks and running up the fences in every direction . The various squirrels half domesticated in the public squares of Philadelphia , are a beautiful feature in those pleasant grounds . Leaving ...
... Italy ; like them , scampering across the walks and running up the fences in every direction . The various squirrels half domesticated in the public squares of Philadelphia , are a beautiful feature in those pleasant grounds . Leaving ...
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... Italian literature , and his metrical skill , were abundantly proved , a few years since , by the publication of a translation of part of " Dante's Inferno , " and the same exquisite quality is apparent in these more recent productions ...
... Italian literature , and his metrical skill , were abundantly proved , a few years since , by the publication of a translation of part of " Dante's Inferno , " and the same exquisite quality is apparent in these more recent productions ...
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Página 202 - We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most — feels the noblest — acts the best.
Página 167 - The Lord that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine.
Página 49 - Weep no more, woeful shepherds, weep no more, For Lycidas, your sorrow, is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor; So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky...
Página 506 - O for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, With beaded bubbles winking at the brim...
Página 524 - Here the free spirit of mankind at length, Throws its last fetters off; and who shall place A limit to the giant's unchained strength, Or curb his swiftness in the forward race...
Página 448 - I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
Página 8 - At last I heard a voice upon the slope Cry to the summit, " Is there any hope ? " To which an answer peal'd from that high land, But in a tongue no man could understand ; And on the glimmering limit far withdrawn God made Himself an awful rose of dawn.
Página 249 - Being, for whose power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute. To know him, to serve him, to enjoy him, was with them the great end of existence. They rejected with contempt the ceremonious homage which other sects substituted for the pure worship of the soul. Instead of catching occasional glimpses of the Deity through an obscuring veil, they aspired to gaze full on the intolerable brightness, and to commune with him face to face.
Página 319 - The objects of the Association are, by periodical and migratory meetings, to promote intercourse between those who are cultivating science In different parts of America, to give a stronger and more general impulse and more systematic direction to scientific research, and to procure for the labors of scientific men increased facilities and a wider usefulness.
Página 472 - Or chasms and watery depths; all these have vanished; They live no longer in the faith of reason. But still the heart doth need a language, still Doth the old instinct...