Southern Quarterly Review, 4 tomas

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Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell
Wiley & Putnam, 1843
 

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215 psl. - John Keats, who was killed off by one critique, Just as he really promised something great, If not intelligible, - without Greek Contrived to talk about the Gods of late, Much as they might have been supposed to speak. Poor fellow! His was an untoward fate: 'Tis strange the mind, that very fiery particle, Should let itself be snuffed out by an Article.
78 psl. - And trims his helmet's plume ; When the goodwife's shuttle merrily Goes flashing through the loom ; With weeping and with laughter Still is the story told, How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old.
419 psl. - I have been called to a holy office by the Lord himself, who most graciously manifested himself in person to me, his servant, in the year 1743, when he opened my sight to the view of the spiritual world, and granted me the privilege of conversing with spirits and angels, which I enjoy to this day.
218 psl. - Secondly, however, we may say, these Historical Novels have taught all men this truth, which looks like a truism, and yet was as good as unknown to writers of history and others, till so taught : that the bygone ages of the world were actually filled by living men, not by protocols, state papers, controversies, and abstractions of men.
388 psl. - And it came to pass, as they Were burying a man, that, behold, they spied a band of men; and they cast the man into the sepulchre of Elisha : and when the man was let down, and touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood up on his feet.
78 psl. - When the oldest cask is opened, And the largest lamp is lit ; When the chestnuts glow in the embers, And the kid turns on the spit ; When young and old in circle Around the firebrands close ; When the girls are weaving baskets, And the lads are shaping bows...
515 psl. - As yet hath left abrupt and stark Above thy evening water-mark ; No calm cove with its rocky hem, No isle whose emerald swells begem Thy broad, smooth current ; not a sail Bowed to the freshening ocean gale ; No small boat with its busy oars, Nor gray wall sloping to thy shores ; Nor farm-house with its maple shade, Or rigid poplar colonnade, But lies distinct and full in sight, Beneath this gush of sunset light.
506 psl. - But the tide (which stays for no man) calling them away that were thus loath to depart, their reverend pastor, falling down on his knees and they all with him, with watery cheeks commended them with most fervent prayers to the Lord and His blessing ; and then with mutual embraces and many tears they took their leaves one of another...
14 psl. - Glory is the reward of science ; and those who deserve it scorn all meaner views.
302 psl. - Ran away, a negro woman and two children. A few days before she went off, I burnt her with a hot iron, on the left side of her face. I tried to make the letter M.

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