FalklandJ. & J. Harper, 1830 - 97 էջ |
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... youth my father had served in the army . He had known much of men , and more of books ; but his knowledge , instead of rooting out , had rather been engraft- ed on , his prejudices . He was one of that class ( and I say it with a ...
... youth my father had served in the army . He had known much of men , and more of books ; but his knowledge , instead of rooting out , had rather been engraft- ed on , his prejudices . He was one of that class ( and I say it with a ...
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... youth and the allurements of pleasure , the curse and the presence of a fiend . FROM THE SAME TO THE SAME . Ir was after the first violent grief produced by that train of circumstances to which I must necessarily so darkly allude , that ...
... youth and the allurements of pleasure , the curse and the presence of a fiend . FROM THE SAME TO THE SAME . Ir was after the first violent grief produced by that train of circumstances to which I must necessarily so darkly allude , that ...
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... 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 draught . I ceased to hope , to feel , to act ...
... 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 draught . I ceased to hope , to feel , to act ...
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... youth had acquired only appeared to them an excuse for the ignorance and the indolence of maturer years . Was it to equal these that I was to labour ? I felt that I already surpassed them ! Was it to gain their good opinion , or , still ...
... youth had acquired only appeared to them an excuse for the ignorance and the indolence of maturer years . Was it to equal these that I was to labour ? I felt that I already surpassed them ! Was it to gain their good opinion , or , still ...
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... youth . FROM THE SAME TO THE SAME . I RETURNED to England . I entered again upon the theatre of its world ; but I mixed now more in its greater than its less pursuits . I looked rather at the mass than the leaven of mankind ; and while ...
... youth . FROM THE SAME TO THE SAME . I RETURNED to England . I entered again upon the theatre of its world ; but I mixed now more in its greater than its less pursuits . I looked rather at the mass than the leaven of mankind ; and while ...
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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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