The Letters of the British SpyJ. & J. Harper, 1832 - 260 sider |
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... genius . The latter adds , " Some of the most beautiful touches of eloquence I have ever heard , were echoes from Campbell which reached us in our mountains . " This promising career was cut short by a lamentable death . He left a ...
... genius . The latter adds , " Some of the most beautiful touches of eloquence I have ever heard , were echoes from Campbell which reached us in our mountains . " This promising career was cut short by a lamentable death . He left a ...
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... genius and the value of his services to the public , he seems sedulously to have constrained himself from this bustling field within the calmer region of an intellectual pursuit , undazzled by the prospect of popular honours , though no ...
... genius and the value of his services to the public , he seems sedulously to have constrained himself from this bustling field within the calmer region of an intellectual pursuit , undazzled by the prospect of popular honours , though no ...
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... genius , with such a soul for eloquence , as Mr. Wirt certainly possesses , seen Mr. Henry in some of his grandest exhibitions , I should not now have to deplore the want of a finished orator at any American bar . But that bright meteor ...
... genius , with such a soul for eloquence , as Mr. Wirt certainly possesses , seen Mr. Henry in some of his grandest exhibitions , I should not now have to deplore the want of a finished orator at any American bar . But that bright meteor ...
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... genius , and exclaiming , in the language of Æneas , " Quæ regio in terris , nostri non plenæ laboris ? ' " Sir , it was not in the moment of triumph , nor with the feelings of triumph , that Æneas uttered that exclamation . It was when ...
... genius , and exclaiming , in the language of Æneas , " Quæ regio in terris , nostri non plenæ laboris ? ' " Sir , it was not in the moment of triumph , nor with the feelings of triumph , that Æneas uttered that exclamation . It was when ...
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William Wirt. and classical taste has pronounced it to be the offspring of genius . To those who would in- culcate the degrading doctrine , that this is the country " Where Genius sickens , and where Fancy dies , " * we would offer the ...
William Wirt. and classical taste has pronounced it to be the offspring of genius . To those who would in- culcate the degrading doctrine , that this is the country " Where Genius sickens , and where Fancy dies , " * we would offer the ...
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adieu admiration alluvion America appearance argument Atlantic ocean beautiful believe Bladensburg boys British Spy Buffon cause celebrated censure character Cicero continent court curious dear deism Demosthenes doubt earth eastern coast Edmund Randolph effect eloquence eminent fancy feelings force genius gentlemen grace hand hearers heart heaven honour Indians interest James river judgment lava letters light literary look Lord Verulam manner ment miles mind Monticello motion mountains native nature never observation occasion ocean Old Bachelor once opinion orator ornament passage passion Patrick Henry perhaps person political present probably produced profes reader reason remarkable resided Richmond Robert Boyle scene seems shore sketch soul South America speaker spirit style sublime suppose surface talents taste theory thing thought tion truth venerable vigorous Virginia voice western whole WILLIAM WIRT Williamsburg Wirt Wirt's writer young
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Side 225 - Th' applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes...
Side 194 - Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do" — the voice of the preacher, which had all along faltered, grew fainter and fainter, until his utterance being entirely obstructed by the force of his feelings, he raised his handkerchief to his eyes, and burst into a loud and irrepressible flood of grief. The effect is inconceivable.
Side 204 - This grew speedily to an excess ; for men began to hunt more after words than matter, and more after the choiceness of the phrase, and the round and clean composition of the sentence, and the sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying and illustration of their works with tropes and figures, than after the weight of matter, worth of subject, soundness of argument, life of invention, or depth of judgment.
Side 183 - Come unto me, all ye who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Side 191 - Devotion alone should have stopped me, to join in the duties of the congregation; but I must confess, that curiosity, to hear the preacher of such a wilderness, was not the least of my motives.
Side 81 - ... we find her shivering at midnight on the winter banks of the Ohio and mingling her tears with the torrents that froze as they fell.
Side 71 - On one side, specimens of sculpture set out, in such order, as to exhibit at a coup d'ceil, the historical progress of that art; from the first rude attempts of the aborigines of our country, up to that exquisite and finished bust of the great patriot himself, from the master hand of Caracci.
Side 184 - Our revels now are ended: these our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherits, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind: We are such stuff As dreams are made of, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.
Side 198 - On a rock, whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Robed in the sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes the poet stood ; (Loose his beard and hoary hair, Stream'd like a meteor to the troubled air,) And with a master's hand and prophet's fire Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre...
Side 57 - ... raillery on their own past misconceptions and mistakes; the same mutual and just admiration and respect for their many virtues and services to mankind. That correspondence was, to them both, one of the most genial employments of their old age; and it reads a lesson of wisdom on the bitterness of party spirit, by which the wise and the good will not fail to profit.