Southern Quarterly Review, Volume 6Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell Wiley & Putnam, 1844 |
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Pagina 11
... fear was to accomplish for the people of Ireland , what neither the sense of justice nor the claims of religion could produce . The stern moral told in the tale of the revolution of the co- lonies in North - America , had not only ...
... fear was to accomplish for the people of Ireland , what neither the sense of justice nor the claims of religion could produce . The stern moral told in the tale of the revolution of the co- lonies in North - America , had not only ...
Pagina 14
... fear from any invasion , for what incursion , however savage , could work for them more deadly wrong than they had suffered from that government , the dismemberment of which was then apprehended ? True , however , even in such times ...
... fear from any invasion , for what incursion , however savage , could work for them more deadly wrong than they had suffered from that government , the dismemberment of which was then apprehended ? True , however , even in such times ...
Pagina 15
... fears were , to a great extent , realized . These asso- ciations , when organized , naturally turned their attention to their own condition . And no where can there be found principles more just and legal , than those which were adop ...
... fears were , to a great extent , realized . These asso- ciations , when organized , naturally turned their attention to their own condition . And no where can there be found principles more just and legal , than those which were adop ...
Pagina 16
... Fear was no longer useful , for force was beyond their power . A people who could not be subdued by force , were to be overcome by persuasion . Pretending a hollow sympathy for their wrongs , all means were now employed to strip them of ...
... Fear was no longer useful , for force was beyond their power . A people who could not be subdued by force , were to be overcome by persuasion . Pretending a hollow sympathy for their wrongs , all means were now employed to strip them of ...
Pagina 21
... Fear- fully did the myrmidons of the British crown wreak its ven- geance upon that unhappy people . No virtue was too lofty to save , no position too low for their vengeance . subtle arts penetrated the privacy of families , and their ...
... Fear- fully did the myrmidons of the British crown wreak its ven- geance upon that unhappy people . No virtue was too lofty to save , no position too low for their vengeance . subtle arts penetrated the privacy of families , and their ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 74 - I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her siren daughters...
Pagina 121 - The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them ; and they said unto the olive tree, Reign thou over us. But the olive tree said unto them, Should I leave my fatness, wherewith by me they honour God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees ? And the trees said to the fig tree, Come thou, and reign over us.
Pagina 73 - If the time should ever come when what is now called science, thus familiarized to men, shall be ready to put on, as it were, a form of flesh and blood, the Poet will lend his divine spirit to aid the transfiguration, and will welcome the Being thus produced, as a dear and genuine inmate of the household of man...
Pagina 121 - Then said all the trees unto the bramble, Come thou, and reign over us. And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king over you, then come and put your trust in my shadow : and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.
Pagina 272 - The Niobe of nations, — there she stands, Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe ; An empty urn within her withered hands, Whose holy dust was scattered long ago ; The Scipios...
Pagina 383 - Equity is a Roguish thing, for Law we have a measure, know what to trust to, Equity is according to the Conscience of him that is Chancellor, and as that is larger or narrower, so is Equity. 'Tis all one as if they should make the Standard for the measure, we call [a Foot] a Chancellor's Foot, what an uncertain Measure would this be?
Pagina 33 - Earth trembled from her entrails, as again In pangs ; and Nature gave a second groan ; Sky lour'd, and, muttering thunder, some sad drops Wept at completing of the mortal sin Original...
Pagina 120 - ... arose, and went forth into the wilderness, and sought diligently for the man, and found him, and returned with him to the tent; and when he had entreated him kindly, he sent him away on the morrow with gifts. 14. And God spake again unto Abraham, saying, For this thy sin shall thy seed be afflicted four hundred years in a strange land; 15. But for thy repentance will I deliver them; and they shall come forth with power, and with gladness of heart, and with much substance.
Pagina 73 - The remotest discoveries of the chemist, the botanist, or mineralogist will be as proper objects of the poet's art as any upon which it can be employed, if the time should ever come when these things shall be familiar to us, and the relations under which they are contemplated by the followers of these respective sciences shall be manifestly and palpably material to us as enjoying and suffering beings.
Pagina 53 - Quapropter effigiem dei formamque quaerere inbecillitatis humanae reor. Quisquis est deus, si modo est alius, et quacumque in parte, totus est sensus, totus visus, totus auditus, totus animae, totus animi, totus sui.