The Spirit of TravelChapman and Hall, 1857 - 160 páginas |
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Página 74 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been...
Página 12 - But me, not destined such delights to share, My prime of life in wandering spent and care ; Impell'd, with steps unceasing, to pursue Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view ; That, like the circle bounding earth and skies, Allures from far, yet, as I follow, flies ; My fortune leads to traverse realms alone, And find no spot of all the world my own.
Página 136 - His presence, as are more delightful than anything that can be met with in the conversation of His creatures. Even in the hour of death, he considers the pains of his dissolution to be nothing else but the breaking down of that partition, which stands betwixt his soul and the sight of that Being who is always present with him, and is about to manifest itself to him in fulness of joy.
Página 48 - By chase our long-lived fathers earned their food ; Toil strung the nerves and purified the blood : But we their sons, a pampered race of men, Are dwindled down to threescore years and ten. Better to hunt in fields for health unbought Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise for cure on exercise depend ; God never made his work for man to mend.
Página 123 - I do not consider as travelling at all ; it is merely " being sent " to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel...
Página 76 - Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone; A truth, which through our being then doth melt, And purifies from self: it is a tone, The soul and source of music, which makes known Eternal harmony, and sheds a charm Like to the fabled Cytherea's zone, Binding all things with beauty;— 'twould disarm The spectre Death, had he substantial power to harm.
Página 74 - But midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, And roam along, the world's tired denizen, With none who bless us, none whom we can bless ; Minions of splendour shrinking from distress ! None that, with kindred consciousness endued, If we were not, would seem to smile the less, Of all that flatter^, follow'd, sought, and sued ; This is to be alone ; this, this is solitude...
Página 7 - ... they are of little use to the owner. The worst kind of Pedants among learned men are such as are naturally endued with a very small share of common sense, and have read a great number of books without taste or distinction. The truth of it is, Learning, like travelling and all other...
Página 74 - Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been; \. To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd.
Página 8 - ... afford to leave at home than his conscience or his good habits : there is far more reason for tightening the girth of duty many holes, than for letting it out one. For it is not to be denied that travel is, in its immediate circumstances, — as all times of varied and engrossing pleasure, or continual excitement are, — unfavourable to habits of self-discipline, regulation of thought, sobriety of conduct, and dignity of character.