Traits of American LifeE.L. Carey & A. Hart, 1835 - 298 páginas |
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Alexander Watson American appearance Arabella Arthur Lloyd aunt Thankful beauty benevolent better blessing Book of Revelation Boston called character charity child Chloe Harris Christian consider Count de Verger Danvers deacon Bascom dear Dick display duty earth Edinburgh Review Ellen engrossed enjoy eyes fair fair ladies faith fancy fashion father favour fear feel felt fortune friends gentleman George girl give Glover's daughter happy heard heart honour hope husband knew lake Lassar learned live look manner Margaret Markley marriage married Mary ment Merton mignonette mind Morey mother ness never old maid opinion party Peter Wood pleasure poor pursuit racter Redfield republican rich ROBERT WRIGHT scene seemed selfish sentiment smile soon sorrow spirit story stranger tain taste thing thought tion told truth Watson wealth wife wish woman wonder Woodcock young lady
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Página 173 - ROUSSEAU — Voltaire — our Gibbon — and De Stael — Leman ! * these names are worthy of thy shore, Thy shore of names like these ! wert thou no more, Their memory thy remembrance would recall : To them thy banks were lovely as to all, But they have made them lovelier, for the lore Of mighty minds doth hallow in the core Of human hearts the ruin of a wall Where dwelt the wise and wondrous...
Página 253 - Now, as it is fashion which makes the pleasing in dress, were one particular form retained ever so long, it would always please, and thus the unnecessary expense of time and money be avoided ; and the charges of fickleness and frivolousness entirely repelled. We have facts to support this opinion. Is not the Spanish costume quite as becoming as our own mode ? and that costume has been unchanged, or nearly so, for centuries ; while the French and English, from whom we borrow our fashions, (poor souls...
Página 208 - Extolling patience as the truest fortitude ; And to the bearing well of all calamities, All chances incident to man's frail life, Consolatories writ With studied argument, and much persuasion sought, Lenient of grief and anxious thought : But with the...
Página 201 - Take all the pleasures of all the spheres, And multiply each by endless years, One minute of heaven is worth them all!
Página 191 - O'er which affection glides ; And a haven on each rugged shore, When love's the star that guides. ' Tis free where'er the heart is ; Nor chain nor dungeon dim, May check the mind's aspirings, The spirit's pealing hymn ! The heart gives life its beauty, Its glory and its power, — ' Tis sunlight to its rippling stream, And soft dew to its flower.
Página 33 - And these my exhortations'. Nor, perchance If I should be where I no more can hear Thy voice, nor catch from thy wild...
Página 9 - Considered in this light, the example of every rational being is invested with a mighty power for good or evil ; and that good is productive of happiness, and evil of misery we need not the award of the last judgment to convince us. — The history, of the world, our observation, our conscience, and our reason all prove that to deal justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly before God is the perfection of man's felicity.
Página 171 - ... are nothing but huge piles of earth and rocks, covered with blighted firs and fern; the song has not named our streams— they are only celebrated for affording fine fish, good mill-seats or safe navigation. No fairies nor lovers have made our valleys their places of resort; neither green rings or flowery arbours have been allotted to the one or the other; but fertile meadows and fair fields are famed for affording the cultivator very profitable crops. It is therefore that, though reason sees...