Contributions to HerographyE. Darrow, 1850 - 101 էջ |
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... father William was an industrious and frugal farmer , and his circumstances of extreme indigence made it impossible for him to ruin his children's physical or mental constitutions by the enervating indulgences of luxury . Robert , his ...
... father William was an industrious and frugal farmer , and his circumstances of extreme indigence made it impossible for him to ruin his children's physical or mental constitutions by the enervating indulgences of luxury . Robert , his ...
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... father laboring under crushing disadvantages ; and 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 ...
... father laboring under crushing disadvantages ; and 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 ...
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... father's family . It is difficult , indeed , if not quite impossible , to foretell from the first indications of childhood , what is to be the future character of the man . Often have the most promis- ing boys ripened into an idiotic ...
... father's family . It is difficult , indeed , if not quite impossible , to foretell from the first indications of childhood , what is to be the future character of the man . Often have the most promis- ing boys ripened into an idiotic ...
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... father's wishes . Rigid religionists were then , as now , violently opposed to many innocent and healthful amusements - entertaining the as-- cetic notion that true piety demands an entire abstinence from any thing like physical ...
... father's wishes . Rigid religionists were then , as now , violently opposed to many innocent and healthful amusements - entertaining the as-- cetic notion that true piety demands an entire abstinence from any thing like physical ...
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... father's death , which occurred in 1784 , Robert and his brother Gilbert leased a farm in company , upon which they remained four years , during which he composed the greater number of his best poems , -conceiving and completing while ...
... father's death , which occurred in 1784 , Robert and his brother Gilbert leased a farm in company , upon which they remained four years , during which he composed the greater number of his best poems , -conceiving and completing while ...
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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