American Quarterly Review, Том 22Robert Walsh Carey, Lea & Carey, 1837 |
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... United States , who has a desire to enlarge her sphere of action beyond the limits of her domestic home . But what we take to be the complaint is , that in this domestic circle her rights are invaded or withheld . That there are wrongs ...
... United States , who has a desire to enlarge her sphere of action beyond the limits of her domestic home . But what we take to be the complaint is , that in this domestic circle her rights are invaded or withheld . That there are wrongs ...
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... and that any event , particularly of the kind she mentions , is immediately notorious . Every person in the United States who reads her book will know to whom she alludes ; and to have an affair , now 1837. ] 31 Miss Martincau on America .
... and that any event , particularly of the kind she mentions , is immediately notorious . Every person in the United States who reads her book will know to whom she alludes ; and to have an affair , now 1837. ] 31 Miss Martincau on America .
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... United States which , on the whole , I think more virtuous and more enlightened ; but I certainly am not aware [ how guarded she is ] of so large a number of pecu- liarly interesting and valuable persons living in near neighbour- hood ...
... United States which , on the whole , I think more virtuous and more enlightened ; but I certainly am not aware [ how guarded she is ] of so large a number of pecu- liarly interesting and valuable persons living in near neighbour- hood ...
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... United States . We must give a long extract to inform these American women of their own miserable condition , for unless they hear it from this English Miss they will be forever in ignorance of it . " If a test of civilization be sought ...
... United States . We must give a long extract to inform these American women of their own miserable condition , for unless they hear it from this English Miss they will be forever in ignorance of it . " If a test of civilization be sought ...
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... United States . There were evils , and there still are evils - we have mentioned it before - but some have disappeared , and others are now under treatment , with the certainty of a rapid cure . Our own authors have effected this , and ...
... United States . There were evils , and there still are evils - we have mentioned it before - but some have disappeared , and others are now under treatment , with the certainty of a rapid cure . Our own authors have effected this , and ...
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Страница 211 - The sober herd that low'd to meet their young, The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school...
Страница 219 - When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die ; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave, Then go— but go alone the while — Then view St. David's ruined pile ; And, home' returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair ! II.
Страница 221 - Mixed with auxiliar gods ; and what resounds In fable or romance of Uther's son Begirt with British and Armoric knights ; And all who since, baptised or infidel, Jousted in Aspramont, or Montalban, Damasco, or Marocco, or Trebisond, Or whom Biserta sent from Afric shore, When Charlemain with all his peerage fell By Fontarabbia.
Страница 240 - The naked hulk alongside came, And the twain were casting dice; "The game is done! I've won! I've won!
Страница 477 - At my nativity my ascendant was the watery sign of Scorpius; I was born in the planetary hour of Saturn, and I think I have a piece of that leaden planet in me.
Страница 303 - I offer this work as the mathematical principles of philosophy, for the whole burden of philosophy seems to consist in this — from the phenomena of motions to investigate the forces of nature, and then from these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena; and to this end the general propositions in the first and second Books are directed.
Страница 219 - When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die...
Страница 215 - The first time, too, I could scrape a few shillings together, which were not common occurrences with me, I bought unto myself a copy of these beloved volumes ; nor do I believe I ever read a book half so frequently, or with half the enthusiasm.
Страница 214 - I possessed, it may be imagined, but cannot be described, with what delight I saw pieces of the same kind which had amused my childhood, and still continued in secret the Delilahs of my imagination, considered as the subject of sober research, grave commentary, and apt illustration, by an editor who showed his poetical genius was capable of emulating the best qualities of what his pious labour preserved.
Страница 477 - I am no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of company; yet in one dream I can compose a whole comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh myself awake at the conceits thereof. Were my memory as faithful as my reason is then fruitful, I would never study but in my dreams; and this time also would I choose for my devotions...