Memoirs of a Working ManC. Knight & Company, 1845 - 234 páginas |
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... effect . I perceived that I was a living and conscious being , surrounded by other beings of the same kind , placed , without any effort or consent of mine , in a world of whose surface I knew little more than the spot occupied by the ...
... effect . I perceived that I was a living and conscious being , surrounded by other beings of the same kind , placed , without any effort or consent of mine , in a world of whose surface I knew little more than the spot occupied by the ...
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... effects , and I often wished to know something about its origin , its birth , and its constitution , together with the nature and extent of its powers , and the manner of their operation . My wishes were , however , as fruitless as were ...
... effects , and I often wished to know something about its origin , its birth , and its constitution , together with the nature and extent of its powers , and the manner of their operation . My wishes were , however , as fruitless as were ...
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... effects in regard to my association of ideas ; during many years from that time I felt an invincible dislike to the luckless word which had been the innocent occasion of my sufferings . Even to this day I am re- minded of them whenever ...
... effects in regard to my association of ideas ; during many years from that time I felt an invincible dislike to the luckless word which had been the innocent occasion of my sufferings . Even to this day I am re- minded of them whenever ...
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... effect of tranquillizing my feelings . On this account , among others , this bird is among my fa- vourites of the feathered tribes . Nor must I forget the rooks , of which a colony was settled near to our dwelling . The cawing of these ...
... effect of tranquillizing my feelings . On this account , among others , this bird is among my fa- vourites of the feathered tribes . Nor must I forget the rooks , of which a colony was settled near to our dwelling . The cawing of these ...
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... per- plexed by the effect produced upon me by the ob- scene and profane language which I so frequently heard . As to the latter , I was a good deal disturbed own . about it , for several months after I MEMOIRS OF A WORKING MAN . 71.
... per- plexed by the effect produced upon me by the ob- scene and profane language which I so frequently heard . As to the latter , I was a good deal disturbed own . about it , for several months after I MEMOIRS OF A WORKING MAN . 71.
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Página 146 - For, so to interpose a little ease, Let our frail thoughts dally with false surmise; Ay me ! whilst thee the shores and sounding seas Wash far away, where'er thy bones are hurled; Whether beyond the stormy Hebrides, Where thou perhaps under the whelming tide Visit'st the bottom of the monstrous world...
Página 175 - Island of bliss! amid the subject seas, That thunder round thy rocky coasts, set up, At once the wonder, terror, and delight, Of distant nations; whose remotest shores Can soon be shaken by thy naval arm ; Not to be shook thyself, but all assaults Baffling, as thy hoar cliffs the loud sea-wave.
Página 146 - Sleep'st by the fable of Bellerus old, Where the great vision of the guarded mount Looks toward Namancos and Bayona's hold; Look homeward angel now, and melt with ruth. And, O ye dolphins, waft the hapless youth.
Página 233 - Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope, but still bear up and steer Right onward.
Página 180 - Heavens! what a goodly prospect spreads around, Of hills, and dales, and woods, and lawns, and spires, And glittering towns, and gilded streams, till all The stretching landscape into smoke decays!
Página 50 - That runs around the hill; the rampart once Of iron war, in ancient barbarous times, When disunited Britain ever bled...
Página 82 - It will be sufficient to its perfection, if it has in it all the beauties of the highest kind of poetry ; and as for those who allege it is not an heroic poem, they advance no more to the diminution of it than if they should say Adam is not Aeneas, nor Eve Helen. I shall therefore examine it by the rules of epic poetry, and see whether it falls short of the Iliad or Aeneid, in the beauties which are essential to that kind of writing.
Página 227 - He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers...
Página 126 - THROW yourself on the world without any rational plan of support, beyond what the chance employ of booksellers would afford you ! ! ! Throw yourself rather, my dear sir, from the steep Tarpeian rock, slap-dash headlong upon iron spikes. If you had but five consolatory minutes between the desk and the bed, make much. of them, and live a century in them, rather than turn slave to the booksellers.
Página 119 - Yet lov'd in secret all forbidden things. And here the Tertian shakes his chilling wings : The sleepless Gout here counts the crowing cocks ; A wolf now gnaws him, now a serpent stings : Whilst Apoplexy cramm'd Intemperance knocks Down to the ground at once, as butcher felleth ox.