The North American Review, Volumen91O. Everett, 1860 Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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... tion of a rare tree ; and if the work is successful , it is no vulgar delight to see the strange foliage waving amid the native and familiar trees of one's own premises . It raises the grounds at once above the common fields of the ...
... tion of a rare tree ; and if the work is successful , it is no vulgar delight to see the strange foliage waving amid the native and familiar trees of one's own premises . It raises the grounds at once above the common fields of the ...
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... tion in North Carolina , and after a very spirited competition of public institutions , as well as private persons , who were anxious to possess so rare a work , it is said to have been knocked down a very small , thin quarto for nearly ...
... tion in North Carolina , and after a very spirited competition of public institutions , as well as private persons , who were anxious to possess so rare a work , it is said to have been knocked down a very small , thin quarto for nearly ...
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... tion , that he inserts events which occurred in distant quarters of the globe , and had no relation other than of time , to events which took place in North Carolina . In reading this History , one cannot suspect that the author was ...
... tion , that he inserts events which occurred in distant quarters of the globe , and had no relation other than of time , to events which took place in North Carolina . In reading this History , one cannot suspect that the author was ...
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... tion , but there are no indications of carelessness in ascertain- ing and truly expressing the meaning of his authorities . The narrative comes down no later than the Declaration of Inde- pendence . The volume by Joseph Seawell Jones ...
... tion , but there are no indications of carelessness in ascertain- ing and truly expressing the meaning of his authorities . The narrative comes down no later than the Declaration of Inde- pendence . The volume by Joseph Seawell Jones ...
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... tion over them . Under this charter he sent out an expedition , with two vessels , under Captains Amadas ' and Barlow , which reached the coast of North Carolina in July , 1584 , and spent about two months in exploring the country and ...
... tion over them . Under this charter he sent out an expedition , with two vessels , under Captains Amadas ' and Barlow , which reached the coast of North Carolina in July , 1584 , and spent about two months in exploring the country and ...
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Página 382 - Go, lovely Rose! Tell her, that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Tell her that's young And shuns to have her graces spied, That hadst thou sprung In deserts, where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died. 226 Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired: Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desired, And not blush so to be admired.
Página 541 - The mother of mankind, what time his pride Had cast him out from Heaven, with all his host Of rebel angels, by whose aid, aspiring To set himself in glory...
Página 544 - Thus was this place, A happy rural seat of various view : Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm ; Others whose fruit, burnished with golden rind, Hung amiable — Hesperian fables true, If true, here only — and of delicious taste.
Página 540 - Aonian mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme. And chiefly thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples th' upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast Abyss, And mad'st it pregnant...
Página 543 - Before the gates there sat On either side a formidable Shape. The one seemed woman to the waist, and fair, But ended foul in many a scaly fold, Voluminous and vast — a serpent armed With mortal sting.
Página 380 - There needs no more be said to extol the excellence and power of his wit. and pleasantness of his conversation, than that it was of magnitude enough to cover a world of very great faults ; that is, so to cover them, that they were not taken notice of to his reproach, viz.
Página 540 - Of Man's First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe...
Página 400 - With more discerning eyes, or hands more clean; Unbribed, unsought, the wretched to redress, Swift of despatch, and easy of access. Oh! had he been content to serve the crown With virtues only proper to the gown; Or had the rankness of the soil been freed...
Página 377 - He doubtless praised some whom he would have been afraid to marry, and perhaps married one whom he would have been ashamed to praise. Many qualities contribute to domestic happiness, upon which poetry has no colours to bestow ; and many airs and sallies may delight imagination, which he who flatters them never can approve.
Página 440 - He stood between the living and the dead, and the plague was stayed.