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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... whole work . He will study well its capabilities , and endeavor to turn them to the best account . He will not seek to alter and distort nature , but will remove whatever is rude and uncongenial , and add whatever may tend to heighten ...
... whole work . He will study well its capabilities , and endeavor to turn them to the best account . He will not seek to alter and distort nature , but will remove whatever is rude and uncongenial , and add whatever may tend to heighten ...
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... whole shaped for the uses to which it is to be applied . Let one be cautious , however , in materially altering the natural features of the place ; a wart on the cheek of beauty is one thing , and a dimple another . Low , wet portions ...
... whole shaped for the uses to which it is to be applied . Let one be cautious , however , in materially altering the natural features of the place ; a wart on the cheek of beauty is one thing , and a dimple another . Low , wet portions ...
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... whole covered with gravel and rolled . This will insure a firm and dry walk at all seasons . We hardly need say , that the walks and roads in a pleasure- ground should always be kept smooth and scrupulously neat . Let us now pass to the ...
... whole covered with gravel and rolled . This will insure a firm and dry walk at all seasons . We hardly need say , that the walks and roads in a pleasure- ground should always be kept smooth and scrupulously neat . Let us now pass to the ...
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... whole top is one great globe of floating , waving , drooping , or sturdy luxuriance , giving one as perfect an idea of symmetry and proportion as can be found short of the Grecian Apollo itself . " Groups should be of different sizes ...
... whole top is one great globe of floating , waving , drooping , or sturdy luxuriance , giving one as perfect an idea of symmetry and proportion as can be found short of the Grecian Apollo itself . " Groups should be of different sizes ...
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... whole story from the house , but to set aside in different and distant portions of the place all our objects of interest , a flower - garden in one spot , the vegetable- garden in another , an arboretum or pinetum in a third ; and so ...
... whole story from the house , but to set aside in different and distant portions of the place all our objects of interest , a flower - garden in one spot , the vegetable- garden in another , an arboretum or pinetum in a third ; and so ...
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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.