Impressions of Theophrastus Such: Essays and Leaves from a Note-bookBlackwood, 1901 - 457 pages |
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... less free from superstition about my own power of charming , I occasionally , in the glow of sympathy which embraced me and my confiding friend on the subject of his satisfaction or resentment , was urged to hint at a corresponding ...
... less free from superstition about my own power of charming , I occasionally , in the glow of sympathy which embraced me and my confiding friend on the subject of his satisfaction or resentment , was urged to hint at a corresponding ...
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... less trusting disposition , and will only ask my friend to use his judgment in in- suring me against posthumous mistake . Thus I make myself a charter to write , and keep the pleasing , inspiring illusion of being listened to , though I ...
... less trusting disposition , and will only ask my friend to use his judgment in in- suring me against posthumous mistake . Thus I make myself a charter to write , and keep the pleasing , inspiring illusion of being listened to , though I ...
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... less prosaic by minds that attend only to its vulgar and sordid elements , of which there was always an abundance even in Greece and Italy , the favourite realms of the retrospective optimists . To be quite fair towards the ages , a ...
... less prosaic by minds that attend only to its vulgar and sordid elements , of which there was always an abundance even in Greece and Italy , the favourite realms of the retrospective optimists . To be quite fair towards the ages , a ...
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... less beloved because he was understood to be of a saving disposition , and how could he save without getting his tithe ? The sight of him was not unwelcome at any door , and he was remarkable among the clergy of his dis- trict for ...
... less beloved because he was understood to be of a saving disposition , and how could he save without getting his tithe ? The sight of him was not unwelcome at any door , and he was remarkable among the clergy of his dis- trict for ...
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... less delicate ( sometimes melancholy ) effects from minor changes . Hence our midland plains have never lost their familiar expression and conservative spirit for me ; yet at every other mile , since I first looked on them , some sign ...
... less delicate ( sometimes melancholy ) effects from minor changes . Hence our midland plains have never lost their familiar expression and conservative spirit for me ; yet at every other mile , since I first looked on them , some sign ...
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Page 291 - 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...
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Page 335 - 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 253 - 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 251 - I was born of woman, and drew milk As sweet as charity from human breasts. I think, articulate, I laugh and weep, And exercise all functions of a man. How then should I and any man that lives Be strangers to each other?
Page 192 - I SAY the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, 2 That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. 3 For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh...
Page 252 - Happy who walks with him ! whom what he finds Of flavour or of scent in fruit or flower, Or what he views of beautiful or grand In nature, from the broad majestic oak To the green blade that twinkles in the sun, Prompts with remembrance of a present God.
Page 192 - Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh : who are Israelites ; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises : whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, Who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.
Page 248 - That common, but opprobrious lot ! past hours, If not by guilt, yet wound us by their flight, If folly bounds our prospect by the grave...
Page 227 - Father of mercies ! why from silent earth Didst thou awake, and curse me into birth ? Tear me from quiet, ravish me from night, And make a thankless present of thy light ? Push into being a reverse of thee, And animate a clod with misery ? " The beasts are happy; they come forth, and keep Short watch on earth, and then lie down to sleep.