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... once seen better days . So much for the beauty of such rich and condensed descriptions ! There is nothing more characteristic of poetical genius in the forms of expression , than felicitous and original adjectives . How refreshingly ...
... once seen better days . So much for the beauty of such rich and condensed descriptions ! There is nothing more characteristic of poetical genius in the forms of expression , than felicitous and original adjectives . How refreshingly ...
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... once follows , that to maintain the British Constitution unimpaired , our watch - word must be " Protestant ascendancy . " Our concessions to the Papists must now cease . Every attempt to satisfy them has failed , and , unless we are ...
... once follows , that to maintain the British Constitution unimpaired , our watch - word must be " Protestant ascendancy . " Our concessions to the Papists must now cease . Every attempt to satisfy them has failed , and , unless we are ...
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... is a rare and most excellent specimen , despise all such adaptation and labour . Once mounted on his fiery Pegasus , he cares not for his robes or knightly accoutrements , and breathless with the mighty 30 ENORMOUS SCHOOL OF POETRY .
... is a rare and most excellent specimen , despise all such adaptation and labour . Once mounted on his fiery Pegasus , he cares not for his robes or knightly accoutrements , and breathless with the mighty 30 ENORMOUS SCHOOL OF POETRY .
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... once perceive the adsurdity of this simile . If the living creatures rose as thick as dews , ( and thick is an ugly word to apply to dew ) , where would have our first parents obtained their lodge- ment ! But perhaps the poet was ...
... once perceive the adsurdity of this simile . If the living creatures rose as thick as dews , ( and thick is an ugly word to apply to dew ) , where would have our first parents obtained their lodge- ment ! But perhaps the poet was ...
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... protestant country ought to be ? We hesitate not a moment to answer in the negative . It is not once , but again and again that the Protestant mons- people of Britain should be reminded that the government 52 A WORD TO THE INDIFFERENT.
... protestant country ought to be ? We hesitate not a moment to answer in the negative . It is not once , but again and again that the Protestant mons- people of Britain should be reminded that the government 52 A WORD TO THE INDIFFERENT.
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Página 96 - Of Truth, of Grandeur, Beauty, Love, and Hope, And melancholy Fear subdued by Faith; Of blessed consolations in distress; Of moral strength, and intellectual Power; Of joy in widest commonalty spread...
Página 48 - I, to comfort him, bid him a' should not think of God, I hoped there was no need to trouble himself with any such thoughts yet. So a' bade me lay more clothes on his feet: I put my hand into the bed and felt them, and they were as cold as any stone; then I felt to his knees, and so upward, and upward, and all was as cold as any stone.
Página 90 - Ocean and earth, the solid frame of earth And ocean's liquid mass, beneath him lay . In gladness and deep joy. The clouds were touched, And in their silent faces could he read Unutterable love. Sound needed none, Nor any voice of joy ; his spirit drank The spectacle : sensation, soul, and form All melted into him ; they swallowed up His animal being ; in them did he live, And by them did he live ; they were his life.
Página 94 - How exquisitely the individual Mind (And the progressive powers perhaps no less Of the whole species) to the external World Is fitted : — and how exquisitely, too, Theme this but little heard of among Men, The external World is fitted to the Mind ; And the creation (by no lower name Can it be called) which they with blended might Accomplish : — this is our high argument.
Página 155 - ... while, the sole unbusy thing, Nor honey make, nor pair, nor build, nor sing. Yet well I ken the banks where Amaranths blow, Have traced the fount whence streams of nectar flow. Bloom, O ye Amaranths ! bloom for whom ye may, For me ye bloom not ! Glide, rich streams, away ! With lips unbrightened, wreathless brow, I stroll : And would you learn the spells that drowse my soul ? WORK WITHOUT HOPE draws nectar in a sieve, And HOPE without an object cannot live.
Página 90 - What soul was his, when, from the naked top Of some bold headland, he beheld the sun Rise up, and bathe the world in light...
Página 93 - Early had he learned To reverence the volume that displays The mystery, the life which cannot die; But in the mountains did he feel his faith.
Página 75 - And eloquence, native to famous wits Or hospitable, in her sweet recess, City or suburban, studious walks and shades. See there the olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long ; There, flowery hill, Hymettus, with the sound Of bees...
Página 89 - From that bleak tenement He, many an evening, to his distant home In solitude returning, saw the hills Grow larger in the darkness ; all alone Beheld the stars come out above his head, And travelled through the wood, with no one near To whom he might confess the things he saw.
Página 67 - Oh ! many are the Poets that are sown By Nature ; men endowed with highest gifts, The vision and the faculty divine ; .Yet wanting the accomplishment of verse...