FalklandJ. & J. Harper, 1830 - 97 էջ |
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... emotion appear to me as tame , but even the most overwrought excitation can bring neither novelty nor zest . I have , as it were , feasted upon the passions ; I have made that my daily food , which , in its strength and excess , would ...
... emotion appear to me as tame , but even the most overwrought excitation can bring neither novelty nor zest . I have , as it were , feasted upon the passions ; I have made that my daily food , which , in its strength and excess , would ...
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... emotions , that I have learned to know them . I have descended into the receptacles of vice ; I have taken lessons from the brothel and the hell ; I have watched feeling in its unguarded sallies , and drawn from the impulse of the ...
... emotions , that I have learned to know them . I have descended into the receptacles of vice ; I have taken lessons from the brothel and the hell ; I have watched feeling in its unguarded sallies , and drawn from the impulse of the ...
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... emotion - its vividness of conception - its admiration for the grand - its affection for the good , and that dangerous contempt for whatever is mean and worth- less , the very indulgence of which is an offence against the habits of the ...
... emotion - its vividness of conception - its admiration for the grand - its affection for the good , and that dangerous contempt for whatever is mean and worth- less , the very indulgence of which is an offence against the habits of the ...
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... emotion they had conceived . God made the country , and man made the town , says the hackneyed quotation ; and the feelings awakened in each differ with the genius of the place . Who can compare the frittered and divided affections ...
... emotion they had conceived . God made the country , and man made the town , says the hackneyed quotation ; and the feelings awakened in each differ with the genius of the place . Who can compare the frittered and divided affections ...
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... emotions , even to the most subtle and concealed . Love what is common , and rdinary objects can replace or destroy a sentiment which an ordi- nary object has awakened . Love what we shall not meet again amid the littleness and ...
... emotions , even to the most subtle and concealed . Love what is common , and rdinary objects can replace or destroy a sentiment which an ordi- nary object has awakened . Love what we shall not meet again amid the littleness and ...
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Էջ 79 - Knowledge before — a discovery that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy.
Էջ 22 - Ah me! for aught that ever I could read. Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth: But, either it was different in blood; Her.
Էջ 55 - ... engrosses all the sources of thought, and excludes every object but itself; but in the latter, it is shared with all the former reflections and feelings which the past yet bequeaths us, and can neither (however powerful be its nature) constitute the whole of our happiness or woe. The love of man in his maturer years is not indeed so much a new emotion, as a revival and concentration of all his departed affections to others; and the deep and intense nature of Falkland's passion for Emily was...
Էջ 29 - Our senses may captivate us with beauty ; but in absence we forget, or by reason we can conquer so superficial an impression. Our vanity may enamour us with rank ; but the affections of vanity are traced in sand : but who can love Genius, and not feel that the sentiments it excites partake of its own intenseness and its own immortality ? It arouses, concentrates, engrosses all our emotions, even to the most subtle and concealed.
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