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POETRY

... gladdens home with glee: When like a lisping stream life rolls along In happy murmurs of unconscious song. It smiles on that, and speaks to this, As if each object know A child exulted in the bliss Of all that charms its view: Personified the whole creation seems ...

POETRY

... Il'TELLECT.- YOU see, Gandma' said a hot-bed speciten otf juvenile precocity. 'that when I suck this egg, or more properly speaking when I estract the nutritive matter by a sudden and peculiar ?? of the muscles ofthie throat, I first melee an illncsion ...

LITERATURE

... retribution; when we~ hear the savage -describing his abode beyond the grave-an a fertile huntingp-ground, and the Christian speaking of his payadiee as a plume, thle joys of which eye bath not seen, nor the mind of tian conceives ; when everywhere are preaented ...

LITERATURE

... diamete',. al and that the' bios hills that ~he seas around him'form the brim of. Pa the glass Hygeia proffers to his lips. ' he Speaking of Shorehamt, -the lharbour of Brigihton,) bi reference is thus made to the celebrated t The Downs at the back-of the ...

EXETER LITERARY SOCIETY

... native idiom in preference to a foreign idiom; indeed he was master of the idiomatic style above most other English authors. Speaking of the character- istica of such a'style as that of Swift, the lecturer observed that fit words in fit places was the only ...

EXETER LITERARY SOCIETY

... former act such a mistake should have been fonud out before. The utility of .mathematics, iiih debate, diesessiou, and -public speaking, was al o very groat. Tbe impovtince of stich a study to enlighten the public minid and to show the absurdity of fallacious ...

POETRY

... while she lay- Ali, needless caret I might have let them ploy . 'Twas long ere I believed That this ene daughter might not speak to me; Waited and watch'ed God lonows hosv patiently ! How willingly deceived: Vain Love was long the untiring nurse of Faith ...

LITERATURE

... who have niot regular wages like a other Boalmtn. but receive a kind of per centogo on the value ofi thu whale's capture. Speaking of the London docks the writer says- The inside of the, warehouses is not less striking than the docks theosselves. The ...

POETRY

... discovery of Anmerica and its effects on Europe, and also to thebsrdihips and disappointments Columbus underwent, be proceeded to speak of the moreremarkable oharac- teristics of the American continont. Its inmnoue plains, its mighty rivers, its insects, and ...

LITERATURE

... by means of the reciprocity which would be granted by foreign powers. Is this borne out by facts? The writer in qnestion, speaking of the alterations and changes says, they * Were no doubt intended by their devisersto be prodnctive of goo I but they way ...

THE GREAT EXHIBITION

... isseeatls and decided. Wel1, ?? ewht yo ?? of thm. a yhungry. and if you will ran thde over wbibe I t my dinnr, rll not speak n, wrd.' Neither Wl I diatnrb eoa, for 1 medt light a igar, and in spite of every reglation in that case mait ad provided ...

ENGLISH MUSIC.—No. I

... the year 1400 there were five musical characters-the large, the long, the breve, semibreve, and minim,-a writer of time also speaks of the crotchet, which seems to excite his wrath, for he says it would be of no use if musicians would only remember that ...