The Yale Literary Magazine, Volumen26,Tema 6Herrick & Noyes, 1861 |
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2d Prize acquaintance acquired powers Appointments Bautain beauty better Brothers in Unity calm century cere character Chess Claiborne and Gholson Class CLASS OF 61 classmates College curtain Daniel Webster dear Democrats discourse Dissertation elected eloquence evil exordium extemporaneous speaker extemporization eyes faces Faculty faithful feel Freshmen friends Gennesaret half hand Haven hear heart Henry Henry Clay honor hour human idea important influence institution intellectual interest Junior Exhibition Know Thyself labored laws Leigh Hunt Linonia live look manuscripts March 19 ment mental mind Music mysterious natural and acquired never old Yale Oration ourselves pass peculiar Philosophical pleasure punished reform respect seats seek seems Seniors sentiments Society soul speak speech Stiles Students success sweet tell things thought tion volume Webster Whig William wish XXVI.-NO Yale College YALE LITERARY MAGAZINE York City young youth
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Página 226 - And if it cannot love you in return, it cannot hate you; it cannot utter a hateful thing, even for your neglecting it; for though it is all beauty, it has no vanity: and such being the case, and living as it does purely to do you good and afford...
Página 219 - Derivative Spelling-Book : Giving the Origin of Every Word from the Greek, Latin, Saxon, German, Teutonic, Dutch, French, Spanish, and other Languages ; with their present Acceptation and Pronunciation. By J. ROWBOTHAM, FRAS Improved Edition. is. 6d.
Página 234 - How many a father have I seen, A sober man, among his boys, Whose youth was full of foolish noise, Who wears his manhood hale and green : And dare we to this fancy give, That had the wild oat not been sown, The soil, left barren, scarce had grown The grain by which a man may live ? Or, if we held the doctrine sound For life outliving heats of youth.
Página 232 - I had ever witnessed. The words poured from his lips in a torrent, but the sentences were correctly formed, the matter grave and important, the train of thought distinctly pursued, the illustrations wonderfully happy, drawn from a wide range of reading, and aided by a brilliant imagination. That it was a carefully prepared speech no one could believe for a moment. It was the overflow of a full mind, swelling in the joyous excitement of the friendly reception, kindling with the glowing themes suggested...
Página 241 - From her fayre head her fillet she undight, And layd her stole aside : her angels face, As the great eye of Heaven, shyned bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place ; Did never mortall eye behold such heavenly grace.
Página 232 - ... brilliant imagination. That it was a carefully prepared speech, no one could believe for a moment. It was the overflow of a full mind, swelling in the joyous excitement of the friendly reception, kindling with the glowing themes suggested by the occasion, and not unmoved by the genius of the place. Sitting by Mr. Webster, I asked him if he had ever heard anything like it? He answered, "Never, except from Mr. Prentiss himself.
Página 246 - They have carried all things secret in their anniversaries hitherto; yet lately inviting gentlemen and ladies in town, their entertainments and dramatic exhibitions have become of notoriety no longer to be concealed. The general sense of the members of both has been against carrying dramatical exhibitions to the greatest length. Others have been zealous for the whole drama. . , ,** Stiles' disapproval of this "notoriety...
Página 233 - I saw ladies who had never honored the stump with their presence etruggling for scats, counselors, statesmen, and professional men, the elite of a great city, •were gathered together. An hour before I had seen Prentiss, still apparently ignorant of his engagement. The time of trial came, and the remarkable man presented himself, the very picture of buoyant health, of unbroken rest. All this had been done by the unyielding resolve of hit will — his triumph was complete ; highwrought expectations...
Página 231 - I can never forget that speech. It was, certainly, the most brilliant that I ever heard, and, as a whole, I think it fully equalled, if it did not exceed, any rhetorical effort to which it has been my good fortune to listen in either House of Congress.
Página 246 - History coms to me in a manner that I cannot animadvert upon it at present. However I believe it all for the best — a purification of the 2 first Societies from their gay jovial tumultuous Members, & an aggregation of the wild Characters in College into a Society, in which they will either in the first plan act out themselves so boldly as to necessitate a suppression by Authority, or else be induced to Reform* & Regularity by Advice & Danger of incurring the Animadversions & Restrictions of the...