The Original, a periodical established by a few young men as an amusement

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1849
 

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Page 41 - The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid ; and the calf and the young lion and the failing together ; and a little child shall lead them.
Page iv - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Page 8 - The scripture also affords us a divine pastoral drama in the Song of Solomon, consisting of two persons, and a double chorus, as Origen rightly judges. And the Apocalypse of St. John is the majestic image of a high and stately tragedy, shutting up and intermingling her solemn scenes and acts with a sevenfold chorus of hallelujahs and harping symphonies : and this my opinion the grave authority of Pareus, commenting that book, is sufficient to confirm.
Page 9 - Touch their immortal harps of golden wires, With those just spirits that wear victorious palms, Hymns devout and holy psalms Singing everlastingly...
Page 45 - ... now That which is most within me, — could I wreak My thoughts upon expression, and thus throw Soul, heart, mind, passions, feelings, strong or weak, All that I would have sought, and all I seek, Bear, know, feel, and yet breathe — into one word, And that one word were Lightning, I would speak But as it is, I live and die unheard, "With a most voiceless thought, sheathing it as a sword.
Page iii - He is a freeman whom the truth makes free And all are slaves beside.
Page 9 - O for some sadly dying note Upon this silent hour to float, Where from the bustling world remote The lyre might wake its melody; One feeble strain is all can swell From mine almost deserted shell, In mournful accents yet to tell That slumbers not its minstrelsy.
Page 9 - In mournful accents yet to tell That slumbers not its minstrelsy. There w an hour of deep repose That yet upon my heart shall close, When all that nature dreads and knows Shall burst upon me wond'rously; О may, I then awake for ever My harp to rapture's high endeavour, And as from earth's vain scene I sever, Be lost in Immortality 1 FLORAL DIRECTORT.
Page 16 - ... sun, and on the south by the day of judgment, and the peculiar circumstances in which the people are placed, can be traced in most of these stories. The hyperbolical or tall species of American humour, was much in vogue some years ago, and such stories as the following were once very common. ' A man was so tall that he had to go up a ladder to shave himself...
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