Western CharactersRedfield, 1853 - 378 páginas |
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... feeling of the incongruity between the purpose and the power ; and it is only when the valley is extended , the field of effort open , that we can avoid the impression of energy wasted , and strength frittered away . The great intellect ...
... feeling of the incongruity between the purpose and the power ; and it is only when the valley is extended , the field of effort open , that we can avoid the impression of energy wasted , and strength frittered away . The great intellect ...
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... feeling fret against the world , and waste their strength in vain repining or impatient irrita- tion . Tranquillity returns no more ; and though the waters seem not turbid , there is a shadow in their depths — their transparency is lost ...
... feeling fret against the world , and waste their strength in vain repining or impatient irrita- tion . Tranquillity returns no more ; and though the waters seem not turbid , there is a shadow in their depths — their transparency is lost ...
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... feeling or tone of thought , would be quite as great a prodigy . Poetry flourishes most luxuriantly midway between the two extremes . Its essence is the contemplation of great passions and ac- tions of love , revenge , ambition ...
... feeling or tone of thought , would be quite as great a prodigy . Poetry flourishes most luxuriantly midway between the two extremes . Its essence is the contemplation of great passions and ac- tions of love , revenge , ambition ...
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... feeling ? The gratification of sensual wants is the end of his life - too often , literally the end ! " He con- siders everything beneath his notice , which is not necessary to his advantage or enjoyment . " * To him a jest is as ...
... feeling ? The gratification of sensual wants is the end of his life - too often , literally the end ! " He con- siders everything beneath his notice , which is not necessary to his advantage or enjoyment . " * To him a jest is as ...
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... feeling , posture , or re- lation , is utterly foreign to his mode of thought and speech . " So , also , of the " cloudless sky , " used to ex- press a state of prosperity . He does not mean , by the phrase , the serenity of mind which ...
... feeling , posture , or re- lation , is utterly foreign to his mode of thought and speech . " So , also , of the " cloudless sky , " used to ex- press a state of prosperity . He does not mean , by the phrase , the serenity of mind which ...
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Página 77 - And she may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's.
Página 75 - There is not, and there never was on this earth, a work of human policy so well deserving of examination as the Roman Catholic Church.
Página 287 - Yet he was kind, or, if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault...
Página 324 - Heaven doth with us as we with torches do ; Not light them for themselves : for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 't were all alike As if we had them not.
Página 104 - THE groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave. And spread the roof above them, — ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, Amidst the cool and silence, he knelt down, And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication.
Página 32 - Poetry puts a spirit of life and motion into the universe. It describes the flowing, not the fixed. It does not define the limits of sense, or analyze the distinctions of the understanding, but signifies the excess of the imagination beyond the actual or ordinary impression of any object or feeling.
Página 246 - I beseech you, Wrest once the law to your authority: To do a great right, do a little wrong, And curb this cruel devil of his will.
Página 105 - I hear the tread of pioneers Of nations yet to be ; The first low wash of waves, where soon Shall roll a human sea.
Página 38 - I may challenge the whole orations of Demosthenes and Cicero, and of any more eminent orator, if Europe has furnished more eminent, to produce a single passage, superior to the speech of Logan, a Mingo chief, to Lord Dunmore, when governor of this state.
Página 52 - It is to be doubted, whether some part of this vaunted stoicism be not the result of a more than ordinary degree of physical insensibility.