The Works of George Eliot, Volume 20Little, Brown,, 1900 |
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... Night Thoughts . " Judging from Young's works , one might imagine that the preacher had been organized in him by hereditary transmis- sion through a long line of clerical forefathers , that the dia- monds of the " Night Thoughts " had ...
... Night Thoughts . " Judging from Young's works , one might imagine that the preacher had been organized in him by hereditary transmis- sion through a long line of clerical forefathers , that the dia- monds of the " Night Thoughts " had ...
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... Night Thoughts " : - " I find my inspiration in my theme ; The grandeur of my subject is my muse . 99 Nothing can be feebler than this " Instalment , " except in the strength of impudence with which the writer professes to scorn the ...
... Night Thoughts " : - " I find my inspiration in my theme ; The grandeur of my subject is my muse . 99 Nothing can be feebler than this " Instalment , " except in the strength of impudence with which the writer professes to scorn the ...
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... Night Thoughts . " " Narcissa " had died in 1735 , shortly after marriage to Mr. Temple , the son of Lord Palmerston ; and Mr. Temple him- self , after a second marriage , died in 1740 , a year before Lady Elizabeth Young . These , then ...
... Night Thoughts . " " Narcissa " had died in 1735 , shortly after marriage to Mr. Temple , the son of Lord Palmerston ; and Mr. Temple him- self , after a second marriage , died in 1740 , a year before Lady Elizabeth Young . These , then ...
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... Night Thoughts " appeared between 1741 and 1745 . Although he declares in them that he has chosen God for his " patron " henceforth , this is not at all to the prejudice of some half - dozen lords , duchesses , and right honorables ...
... Night Thoughts " appeared between 1741 and 1745 . Although he declares in them that he has chosen God for his " patron " henceforth , this is not at all to the prejudice of some half - dozen lords , duchesses , and right honorables ...
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... courteously handed us into the inn . ' . . . The party returned to the Wells ; and ' the silver Cynthia held up her lamp in the heavens ' the while . " The night silenced all but our divine 20 WORLDLINESS AND OTHER - WORLDLINESS :
... courteously handed us into the inn . ' . . . The party returned to the Wells ; and ' the silver Cynthia held up her lamp in the heavens ' the while . " The night silenced all but our divine 20 WORLDLINESS AND OTHER - WORLDLINESS :
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Page 86 - She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love : A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye ! — Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky. She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be ; But she is in her grave, and, oh, The difference to me...
Page 122 - Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before, But vaster.
Page 85 - Nor dare she trust a larger lay, But rather loosens from the lip Short swallow-flights of song, that dip Their wings in tears, and skim away.
Page 18 - Insatiate archer ! could not one suffice ? Thy shaft flew thrice ; and thrice my peace was slain ; And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had fill'd her horn.
Page 53 - Is merely as the working of a sea Before a calm, that rocks itself to rest : For He, whose car the winds are, and the clouds The dust that waits upon His sultry march, When sin hath moved Him, and His wrath is hot, Shall visit earth in mercy ; shall descend Propitious in His chariot paved with love : And what His storms have blasted and defaced For man's revolt, shall with a smile repair.
Page 53 - One song employs all nations; and all cry, * Worthy the Lamb, for he was slain for us !* The dwellers in the vales and on the rocks Shout to each other, and the mountain-tops From distant mountains catch the flying joy ; Till, nation after nation taught the strain, Earth rolls the rapturous Hosanna round.
Page 101 - Though gay companions o'er the bowl Dispel awhile the sense of ill: Though pleasure fires the maddening soul, The heart — the heart is lonely still!
Page 35 - O ye blest scenes of permanent delight! Full above measure! lasting beyond bound! A perpetuity of bliss is bliss. Could you, so rich in rapture, fear an end. That ghastly thought would drink up all your joy, And quite unparadise the realms of light.
Page 117 - Christian gives to the poor, not only because he has sensibilities like other men, but because, ' inasmuch as ye did it to the least of these my brethren, ye did it unto me.
Page 216 - ... philosopher, who wants to know how he got there. The only stories life presents to us in an orderly way are those of our autobiography, or the career of our companions from our childhood upwards, or perhaps of our own children. But it is a great art to make a connected strictly relevant narrative of such careers as we can recount from the beginning. In these cases the sequence of associations is almost sure to overmaster the sense of proportion. Such narratives ab...