Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art, and Fashion, Volumen43

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G. R. Graham, 1853
 

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Página 80 - Who made you glorious as the Gates of Heaven Beneath the keen full moon? Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows? Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet? — GOD! let the torrents, like a shout of nations, Answer! and let the ice-plains echo, GOD!
Página 13 - And yet God deliver us from pinching poverty, and grant that, having a competency, we may be content and thankful! Let us not repine, or so much as think the gifts of God unequally dealt, if we see another abound with riches, when, as God knows, the cares that are the keys that keep those riches hang often so heavily at the rich man's girdle, that they clog him with weary days and restless nights, even when others sleep quietly.
Página 13 - Nay, let me tell you, there be many that have forty times our estates, that would give the greatest part of it to be healthful and cheerful like us ; who, with the expense of a little money, have eat and drank, and laughed and angled, and sung and slept securely; and rose next day, and cast away care, and sung, and laughed, and angled again; which are blessings rich men cannot purchase with all their money.
Página 5 - Till late at silent eve she penn'd the fold ; Deep in the grove, beneath the secret shade, A various wreath of odorous flowers she made : Gay-motley'd pinks* and sweet jonquils she chose; The violet blue that on the moss-bank grows ; All-sweet to sense, the flaunting rose was there ; The finish'd chaplet well adorn'd her hair.
Página 474 - I mean, in the sense of sky. You look to the Sun, for he is your taskmaster, and by him you know the measure of the work that you have done and the measure of the work that remains for you to do; -he comes when you strike your tent in the early morning, and then for the first hour of the day, as you move forward on your camel, he stands at your near side, and makes you know that the whole day's toil is before you;— then for a while and...
Página 34 - As a remarkable instance of this, I may point out to the public that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has hitherto preserved in so signal a manner for some important service to his country.
Página 260 - House rang again with his lusty old voice, as be denounced the bad measure and the worse cabinet, and moved that the bill be read a second time that day six months. The...
Página 473 - As long as you are journeying in the interior of the Desert you have no particular point to make for as your resting-place. The endless sands yield nothing but small stunted...
Página 76 - Of the two separate peaks, called Little and Great Ararat, which are separated by a chasm about seven miles in width, Sir Robert thus speaks ; — ' These inaccessible summits have never been trodden by the foot of man, since the days of Noah...
Página 174 - Alas ! he's gone before, Gone to return no more ; Our panting breasts aspire After their aged sire, Whose well-spent life did last Full ninety years and past. But now he hath begun That which will ne'er be done, Crown'd with eternal bliss, We wish our souls with his...

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