Contributions to HerographyE. Darrow, 1850 - 101 էջ |
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... doubtless his excess of sensibility , operating upon an immature strength of endurance , prompted to improper toil and produced habitual despondency . His father , notwithstandi ng his numerous thought - demanding embarrassments ...
... doubtless his excess of sensibility , operating upon an immature strength of endurance , prompted to improper toil and produced habitual despondency . His father , notwithstandi ng his numerous thought - demanding embarrassments ...
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... doubtless as inca- pable of real affection as the coarse romp and the shallow rustic of more plebian circles . But that a woman's heart may not cling with a faithful grasp to the man on whom its choice is fixed , and that a man may not ...
... doubtless as inca- pable of real affection as the coarse romp and the shallow rustic of more plebian circles . But that a woman's heart may not cling with a faithful grasp to the man on whom its choice is fixed , and that a man may not ...
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... doubtless increased by the brain - quickening draught . But the end was not yet . The second edition of his poems put our bard in possession of a greater sum than he had ever before called his own ; and with a poet's prudence he ...
... doubtless increased by the brain - quickening draught . But the end was not yet . The second edition of his poems put our bard in possession of a greater sum than he had ever before called his own ; and with a poet's prudence he ...
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... Doubtless , the greatest want of civilized society at the present day is a systematic arrangement of its dissipations . " Dulce est de- sipere in loco , " is not a heathen but a human sentiment . That severer duties must divide our time ...
... Doubtless , the greatest want of civilized society at the present day is a systematic arrangement of its dissipations . " Dulce est de- sipere in loco , " is not a heathen but a human sentiment . That severer duties must divide our time ...
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... Doubtless , in the presence of a real superior , his , like any other generous nature , would have made obeisance . That superior could not readily be found . Perhaps his greatest cotemporary was the sublime trinitarian Plato , a ...
... Doubtless , in the presence of a real superior , his , like any other generous nature , would have made obeisance . That superior could not readily be found . Perhaps his greatest cotemporary was the sublime trinitarian Plato , a ...
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Էջ 14 - Still o'er these scenes my memory wakes, and fondly broods with miser care ; time but the impression deeper makes, as streams their channels deeper wear.
Էջ 13 - Mary ! dear departed shade ! Where is thy place of blissful rest-? Seest thou thy lover lowly laid ? Hear'st thou the groans that rend his breast...
Էջ 53 - To suffer woes which hope thinks infinite ; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night ; To defy power which seems omnipotent ; To love and bear ; to hope till hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates...
Էջ 32 - Oh, fear not in a world like this, And thou shalt know ere long, Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong.
Էջ 19 - Faith, he maunna fa' that! For a' that, and a' that; Their dignities, and a' that, The pith o' sense, and pride o' worth, Are higher ranks than a' that. Then let us pray that come it may,— As come it will for a' that,— That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth, May bear the gree, and a
Էջ 12 - Ye banks and braes and streams around The castle o' Montgomery, Green be your woods, and fair your flowers, Your waters never drumlie ! There simmer first unfauld her robes, And there the langest tarry ; For there I took the last fareweel O
Էջ 12 - And mouldering now in silent dust That heart that lo'ed me dearly ! But still within my bosom's core Shall live my Highland Mary.
Էջ 14 - She was a form of life and light, That, seen, became a part of sight...
Էջ 13 - Eternity will not efface Those records dear of transports past ; Thy image at our last embrace ; Ah, little thought we 'twas our last ) Ayr gurgling kiss'd his pebbled shore, O'erhung with wild woods thick'ning green : The fragrant birch, and hawthorn hoar, Twined amorous round the raptured scene.
Էջ 19 - Our toils obscure an' a' that, The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The Man's the gowd for a' that. What though on hamely fare we dine, Wear hoddin grey, an' a that; Gie fools their silks, and knaves their wine; A Man's a Man for a