FalklandJ. & J. Harper, 1830 - 97 էջ |
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... formed the chief characteristic of the country around us , my hours were equally wasted in those dim and luxurious dreams , which constituted , perhaps , the essence of that poetry I had not the genius to im- body . It was then , by ...
... formed the chief characteristic of the country around us , my hours were equally wasted in those dim and luxurious dreams , which constituted , perhaps , the essence of that poetry I had not the genius to im- body . It was then , by ...
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... formed great expectations of my career at Oxford . I stayed there three years , and did nothing ! I did not gain a single prize , nor did I attempt any thing above the most ordinary degree . The fact is , that no- thing seemed to me ...
... formed great expectations of my career at Oxford . I stayed there three years , and did nothing ! I did not gain a single prize , nor did I attempt any thing above the most ordinary degree . The fact is , that no- thing seemed to me ...
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... formed that resolution of retirement which I have adopted now . Shrinking from my kind , but too young to live wholly for myself , I have made a new tie with nature ; I have come to cement it here . I am like a bird which has wandered ...
... formed that resolution of retirement which I have adopted now . Shrinking from my kind , but too young to live wholly for myself , I have made a new tie with nature ; I have come to cement it here . I am like a bird which has wandered ...
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... formed . The ill health which obliged her to leave London for E- , in the height of the season , has given her cheek a more delicate hue than I should think it naturally wore . Her eyes are light , but their lashes are long and dark ...
... formed . The ill health which obliged her to leave London for E- , in the height of the season , has given her cheek a more delicate hue than I should think it naturally wore . Her eyes are light , but their lashes are long and dark ...
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... formed in cities with that which crowds cannot distract by opposing temptations , or dissipation infect with its frivolities I have often thought that had the execution of Atala equalled its design , no human work could have surpassei ...
... formed in cities with that which crowds cannot distract by opposing temptations , or dissipation infect with its frivolities I have often thought that had the execution of Atala equalled its design , no human work could have surpassei ...
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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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