The works of mrs Hemans; with a memoir of her life, by her sister [H.M. Owen]. |
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... water , and ruin , are sufficient to inspire the most prosaic tempera- ment with a certain degree of enthusiasm ; and it may therefore well be supposed , how fervently a soul , constituted like hers , would worship Nature at so fitting ...
... water , and ruin , are sufficient to inspire the most prosaic tempera- ment with a certain degree of enthusiasm ; and it may therefore well be supposed , how fervently a soul , constituted like hers , would worship Nature at so fitting ...
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... water party , the gayest of the merry band , of whom some are now , like herself , laid low , some far away in foreign lands , some changed by sorrow , and all by time ; and then , in graver mood , dream away hours of pensive ...
... water party , the gayest of the merry band , of whom some are now , like herself , laid low , some far away in foreign lands , some changed by sorrow , and all by time ; and then , in graver mood , dream away hours of pensive ...
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... water . But I am quite forgetting that I had not a word to say to you except about Nigel , and , moreover , dinner is going in . Dinner ! I wonder if " genteel families " are at dinner now in the dog - star . " You're hot if you don't ...
... water . But I am quite forgetting that I had not a word to say to you except about Nigel , and , moreover , dinner is going in . Dinner ! I wonder if " genteel families " are at dinner now in the dog - star . " You're hot if you don't ...
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... waters , nor had she ever seen it in all its terrors , for the coast on which her early years were passed is by no means a rug- ged or dangerous one , and is seldom visited by dis- aster . " Are all these notes in thee , wild Wind ...
... waters , nor had she ever seen it in all its terrors , for the coast on which her early years were passed is by no means a rug- ged or dangerous one , and is seldom visited by dis- aster . " Are all these notes in thee , wild Wind ...
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... waters - rushing torents , and troubled ocean waves , are mingled with the visionary distresses of dreams and delirium ? To me there is no more per- fect emblem of peace than that expressed by the Scriptural phrase , " there shall be no ...
... waters - rushing torents , and troubled ocean waves , are mingled with the visionary distresses of dreams and delirium ? To me there is no more per- fect emblem of peace than that expressed by the Scriptural phrase , " there shall be no ...
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Página 185 - Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To Be, contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Página 307 - Fear no more the frown o' the great, Thou art past the tyrant's stroke; Care no more to clothe, and eat; To thee the reed is as the oak: The sceptre, learning, physic, must All follow this, and come to dust.
Página 12 - SHE was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of twilight fair; Like twilight's, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful dawn: A dancing shape, an image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay.
Página 86 - His steps are not upon thy paths— thy fields Are not a spoil for him— thou dost arise And shake him from thee ; the vile strength he wields For earth's destruction thou dost all despise, Spurning him from thy bosom to the skies, And send'st him, shivering in thy playful spray And howling, to his Gods, where haply lies His petty hope in some near port or bay, And dashest him again to earth — there let him lay.
Página 300 - Scarce seen, but with fresh bitterness imbued And slight withal may be the things which bring Back on the heart the weight which it would fling Aside for ever : it may be a sound — A tone of music — summer's eve — or spring — A flower — the wind — the ocean — which shall . wound, [bound ; | Striking the electric chain wherewith we are darkly XXI.
Página 84 - The earth is every day overspread with the veil of night for the same reason as the cages of birds are darkened — viz. that we may the more readily apprehend the higher harmonies of thought in the hush and quiet of darkness. Thoughts which day turns into smoke and mist stand about us in the night as lights and flames : even as the column which fluctuates above the crater of Vesuvius in the daytime appears a pillar of cloud but by night a pillar of fire.
Página 311 - midst shadowy elms ascending, Whence the sweet chimes proclaim the hallow'd day ! The halls from old heroic ages grey Pour their fair children forth ; and hamlets low, With whose thick orchard-blooms the soft winds play, Send out their inmates in a happy flow, Like a freed vernal stream.
Página 15 - ... the earth. The immortal old man had five great wounds in his happiness — five worms that gnawed for ever at his heart : he was unhappy in spring-time, because that is a season of hope, and rich with phantoms of far happier days than any which this aceldama of earth can realize. He was unhappy at the sound of music, which dilates the heart of man into its whole capacity for the infinite, and he cried aloud — "Away, away ! Thou speakest of things which throughout my endless life I have found...
Página 314 - Calm on the bosom of thy God, Fair spirit! rest thee now! E'en while with ours thy footsteps trod, His seal was on thy brow. Dust, to its narrow house beneath! Soul, to its place on high ! They that have seen thy look in death, No more may fear to die.
Página 285 - ... industry, a great blessing ; and a great blessing it is to have kind, faithful, and loving friends and relatives ; but that the greatest of all blessings, as it is the most ennobling of all privileges, is to be indeed a Christian...