Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Հատոր 1Carey and Hart, 1842 |
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... feelings and thoughts that it had lost - and is made to know that nothing which it once experiences ever perishes , but that all things spiritual possess a principle of immortal life . Why linger on the shadowy wall some of those phan ...
... feelings and thoughts that it had lost - and is made to know that nothing which it once experiences ever perishes , but that all things spiritual possess a principle of immortal life . Why linger on the shadowy wall some of those phan ...
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... feelings that rose within us when that deep organ ' gan to blow , that choir of youthful voices so sweetly to join the diapason , — our eyes fixed all the while on that divine picture over the altar , of our Saviour 66 Bearing his cross ...
... feelings that rose within us when that deep organ ' gan to blow , that choir of youthful voices so sweetly to join the diapason , — our eyes fixed all the while on that divine picture over the altar , of our Saviour 66 Bearing his cross ...
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... feeling of their fins - the young adders basking , ere they can bite , in the sun , as yet unconscious , like sucking satirists , of their stings - young pigs , pretty dears , all a - squeak with their curled tails after prolific ...
... feeling of their fins - the young adders basking , ere they can bite , in the sun , as yet unconscious , like sucking satirists , of their stings - young pigs , pretty dears , all a - squeak with their curled tails after prolific ...
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... feeling.- What , off and away to the window without a single kiss -to hold up the pretty pictures , one after another in the sunshine ! Caroline Graham ! Nay - Caroline , no far - off flirtation - behind backs with such an old quiz as ...
... feeling.- What , off and away to the window without a single kiss -to hold up the pretty pictures , one after another in the sunshine ! Caroline Graham ! Nay - Caroline , no far - off flirtation - behind backs with such an old quiz as ...
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... feels that no medicine is better for the weakness of the body than that which soothes and tranquillises the soul . Last of all - there is the bright - bound , beautiful " Bijou , " -so brightly bound , that by pressing it to thy bosom ...
... feels that no medicine is better for the weakness of the body than that which soothes and tranquillises the soul . Last of all - there is the bright - bound , beautiful " Bijou , " -so brightly bound , that by pressing it to thy bosom ...
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Էջ 260 - Hence in a season of calm weather, Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore...
Էջ 201 - ... the passions of men are incorporated with the beautiful and permanent forms of nature.
Էջ 308 - All things that love the sun are out of doors; The sky rejoices in the morning's birth; The grass is bright with rain-drops; — on the moors The hare is running races in her mirth; And with her feet she from the plashy earth Raises a mist, that, glittering in the sun Runs with her all the way, wherever she doth run.
Էջ 265 - Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower ; We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind ; In the primal sympathy Which having been must ever be ; In the soothing thoughts that spring Out of human suffering ; In the faith that looks through death, In years that bring the philosophic mind.
Էջ 168 - With mazy error under pendent shades Ran nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice Art In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon Pour'd forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain...
Էջ 206 - For the human mind is capable of being excited without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this, and who does not further know, that one being is elevated above another, in proportion as he possesses this capability.
Էջ 308 - Stern Lawgiver! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace: Nor know we any thing so fair As is the smile upon thy face: Flowers laugh before thee on their beds And fragrance in thy footing treads: Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong; And the most ancient heavens, through Thee, are fresh and strong.
Էջ 222 - Will no one tell me what she sings? — Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow For old, unhappy, far-off things, And battles long ago: Or is it some more humble lay, Familiar matter of to-day? Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain, That has been, and may be again?
Էջ 246 - Of mountain torrents ; or the visible scene Would enter unawares into his mind With all its solemn imagery, its rocks, Its woods, and that uncertain heaven received Into the bosom of the steady lake. This boy was taken from his mates, and died In childhood, ere he was full twelve years old.
Էջ 215 - ... must often, in liveliness and truth, fall short of that which is uttered by men in real life, under the actual pressure of those passions, certain shadows of which the poet thus produces, or feels to be produced, in himself.