FalklandJ. & J. Harper, 1830 - 97 էջ |
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... minds . What sick man has not dreamed in his delirium every thing that our philosophers have said ? But I am growing into my old habit of gloomy reflection , and it is time that I should conclude . I meant to have written you a letter ...
... minds . What sick man has not dreamed in his delirium every thing that our philosophers have said ? But I am growing into my old habit of gloomy reflection , and it is time that I should conclude . I meant to have written you a letter ...
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... mind was begun ; and , even at that early age , I rejoiced ( like the wild hart the Grecian poet * has de- scribed ) in the stillness of the great woods , and the soli- tudes unbroken by human footstep . The first change in my life was ...
... mind was begun ; and , even at that early age , I rejoiced ( like the wild hart the Grecian poet * has de- scribed ) in the stillness of the great woods , and the soli- tudes unbroken by human footstep . The first change in my life was ...
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... mind unable to enjoy the ordinary aliments of nature ; and I have wasted , by a premature indulgence , my resources and my powers , till I have left my heart , without a remedy or a hope , to whatever disorders its own intemperence has ...
... mind unable to enjoy the ordinary aliments of nature ; and I have wasted , by a premature indulgence , my resources and my powers , till I have left my heart , without a remedy or a hope , to whatever disorders its own intemperence has ...
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... mind ; though , indeed , naturally inclined to a morbid and melancholy philosophy , it is more than pro- bable , but for that occurrence , it would never have found matter for excitement . Thrown early among mankind , I should early ...
... mind ; though , indeed , naturally inclined to a morbid and melancholy philosophy , it is more than pro- bable , but for that occurrence , it would never have found matter for excitement . Thrown early among mankind , I should early ...
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... mind . I passed at once , like Melmoth , from youth to age . What were any longer to me the ordinary avocations of my contemporaries ? I had exhausted years in mo- ments - I had wasted , like the Eastern Queen , my richest jewel in a ...
... mind . I passed at once , like Melmoth , from youth to age . What were any longer to me the ordinary avocations of my contemporaries ? I had exhausted years in mo- ments - I had wasted , like the Eastern Queen , my richest jewel in a ...
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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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