Category: Poetry
The writer of these Sketches endeavors to give _entire_ in each number, some distinct portion of the history of the Barbary States; this however is in some cases impracticable, either from want of time on his part, or from want of place in the sheets of the Messenger. The pres...
The writer of these Sketches endeavors to give _entire_ in each number, some distinct portion of the history of the Barbary States; this however is in some cases impracticable,...
2. Part 2I saw him but seldom, but always delighted to converse with him. I found him uniformly affable, courteous and communicative. Though too self-respectful to talk gratuitously abou...
3. Part 3{76} They both enlarged the limits of Science. Before the time of the Swedish philosopher, Botanists had arisen in different countries; and from the earliest periods, studies ba...
4. Part 4"Mr. Gordon, then," said Margarette, "knows that he is handsome,--and he has studied the exterior of his head so much, that I should fear he has somewhat neglected the interior."
5. Part 5"Very well," said Mr. Claremont. "It is yours, my dear, to throw at the birds, if you please. I can depend on your judgment and principles, that it will not go to indulge idlene...
6. Part 6There is little merit in the following lines besides that rare merit in poetry, _their truth_. They were written in the place of the writer's nativity, where he had at length se...
7. Part 7Inventions and discoveries owe their origin to chance, or some happy idea suddenly striking the mind, or to patient reflection and experiment. Those accidents that lead to them...
8. Part 8"It was with difficulty," replied my second, "that I could induce him to receive your note, and when he informed me of his refusal to fight, I called him a coward, and threw a g...
9. Part 9"True!" observed the Baron drily--and at that instant a page of the bed chamber came from the Chateau with a heightened color, and precipitate step. He whispered into his master...
10. Part 10In the least religious years of his life, he wrote a poem called "The Last Day." Indeed his mind was at all times rather dark and visionary. It is told of him that "while a mere...
11. Part 11_Aless_. Thou didst. Thou art not well. Thou hast indulged Too much of late, and I am vexed to see it. Late hours and wine, Castiglione,--these Will ruin thee! thou art already...
12. Part 12He ceased. The Lady turned her head, Her soft cheek flushed with a ruby fever-- But she gazed in his face and meekly said, "As I love thee now will I love thee ever."
13. Part 13These lines are glowing all over with the true radiance of poetry. The image in italics is perfect. Of the versification, it is not too much to say that it reminds us of Miltoni...
14. Part 14Some pains have been taken in the preface of "The Partisan," to bespeak the reader's favorable decision in regard to certain historical facts--or rather in regard to the colorin...
15. Part 15In the sentence beginning, "I have said it may be the spirit of the times, for we see signs of it, alas, in Old England, _but there must be something_," _&c._ Mr. Latrobe has in...
16. Part 16Beyond his _Roman History_, our acquaintance extends to only one or two of Mr. Niebuhr's publications. We remember the _Life of his Father_, of which an English translation was...
17. Part 17Besides _Robinson Crusoe_, Defoe wrote no less than _two hundred and eight_ works. The chief of these are the _Speculum Crape-Gownorum_, a reply to Roger L'Estrange, and charact...
18. Part 18We have read the first number of the second volume of the Southern Literary Messenger. It is highly spoken of, and deservedly so we think. The continued and rapid improvement of...
19. Part 19"P. S.--Your publication is decidedly superior to any Periodical in the United States, and Mr. Poe as decidedly the best of all our young writers; I don't know but I might add a...