Early Years and Late ReflectionsWhittaker and Company, 1836 - 311 pages |
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... original colour . " In our case , the thaw , which was merely that pro- duced by the noon - day sun , had not the effect of making the roads very miry , nor did we " journey sad beneath the dropping trees . " Our greatest in ...
... original colour . " In our case , the thaw , which was merely that pro- duced by the noon - day sun , had not the effect of making the roads very miry , nor did we " journey sad beneath the dropping trees . " Our greatest in ...
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... original address . * * The following epigram of Petrus Scriverius on a Tobacco Pipe , occurred to the recollection of Dr. H. on reading the above ; and I have done it into English verse , as the latinity of his friend , P. S. , is not ...
... original address . * * The following epigram of Petrus Scriverius on a Tobacco Pipe , occurred to the recollection of Dr. H. on reading the above ; and I have done it into English verse , as the latinity of his friend , P. S. , is not ...
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... original constitution of the observer . " + It must be admitted , nevertheless , that contemplation is essentially inherent in the emotion . " The heavens declare the glory of God , " and are the sublimest object of contemplation . In ...
... original constitution of the observer . " + It must be admitted , nevertheless , that contemplation is essentially inherent in the emotion . " The heavens declare the glory of God , " and are the sublimest object of contemplation . In ...
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... original productions of these esteemed writers , which are now for the first time given to the public ; in addition to which , all their contributions have been carefully selected from the numerous miscellaneous publications in which ...
... original productions of these esteemed writers , which are now for the first time given to the public ; in addition to which , all their contributions have been carefully selected from the numerous miscellaneous publications in which ...
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... original are wanting ; so that , with the exception of a single half- line , he had not a word to say in favour of my trans- lation . Here it is , however , for the benefit of those who have no acquaintance with the original , to which ...
... original are wanting ; so that , with the exception of a single half- line , he had not a word to say in favour of my trans- lation . Here it is , however , for the benefit of those who have no acquaintance with the original , to which ...
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Page 253 - For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.
Page 140 - DURING the first year that Mr. Wordsworth and I were neighbours, our conversations turned frequently on the two cardinal points of poetry, the power of exciting the sympathy of the reader by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature, and the power of giving the interest of novelty by the modifying colours of imagination.
Page 62 - It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, And the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers...
Page 62 - Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
Page 80 - But the age of chivalry is gone! that of sophisters, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever! !Never, never more shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom.
Page 140 - In the one the incidents and agents were to be, in part at least, supernatural ; and the excellence aimed at was to consist in the interesting of the affections by the dramatic truth of such emotions as would naturally accompany such situations, supposing them real.
Page 90 - Tis the merry Nightingale That crowds, and hurries, and precipitates With fast thick warble his delicious notes, As he were fearful that an April night Would be too short for him to utter forth His love-chant, and disburthen his full soul Of all its music...
Page 66 - By quick instinctive motion, up I sprung, As thitherward endeavouring, and upright Stood on my feet: about me round I saw Hill, dale, and shady woods, and sunny plains, And liquid lapse of murmuring streams; by these Creatures that lived and moved, and walked or flew; Birds on the branches warbling; ~a.ll things smiled; With fragrance and with joy my heart o'erflowed.
Page 291 - ... feet. But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land? Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power ? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart ? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.
Page 98 - What sighs have been wafted after that ship ! what prayers offered up at the deserted fireside of home ! How often has the mistress, the wife, the mother, pored over the daily news, to catch some casual intelligence of this rover of the deep ! How has expectation darkened into anxiety — anxiety into dread — and dread into despair ! Alas ! not one memento shall ever return for love to cherish. All that shall ever be known, is, that she sailed from her port, « and was never heard of more ! »...