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... present hour . I used to set it on the ground when my day's work was done , and saw revealed to me with swim- ming eyes the birth of new hopes , and of a new world of objects . The painter thus learns to look at nature with different ...
... present hour . I used to set it on the ground when my day's work was done , and saw revealed to me with swim- ming eyes the birth of new hopes , and of a new world of objects . The painter thus learns to look at nature with different ...
Pagina 19
... present with him , and a continual source of pleasing and lofty contemplations . It may be different in a taste for outward luxuries and the privations of mere sense ; but the idea of perfection , which acts as an intellectual foil , is ...
... present with him , and a continual source of pleasing and lofty contemplations . It may be different in a taste for outward luxuries and the privations of mere sense ; but the idea of perfection , which acts as an intellectual foil , is ...
Pagina 21
... of mind . I have some desire to enjoy the present good , and some fondness for the past ; but I am not at all given to building - castles in the air , nor to look forward 21 ON THE PAST AND FUTURE ESSAY III On the Past and Future.
... of mind . I have some desire to enjoy the present good , and some fondness for the past ; but I am not at all given to building - castles in the air , nor to look forward 21 ON THE PAST AND FUTURE ESSAY III On the Past and Future.
Pagina 22
... present argument . I cannot see , then , any rational or logical ground for that mighty difference in the value which mankind generally set upon the past and future , as if the one was every thing , and the other nothing , of no ...
... present argument . I cannot see , then , any rational or logical ground for that mighty difference in the value which mankind generally set upon the past and future , as if the one was every thing , and the other nothing , of no ...
Pagina 23
... present , and has no immediate interest while we are speak- ing , yet it is of the utmost consequence in itself , and of the utmost interest to the individual , because it will have a real existence , and we have an idea of it as ...
... present , and has no immediate interest while we are speak- ing , yet it is of the utmost consequence in itself , and of the utmost interest to the individual , because it will have a real existence , and we have an idea of it as ...
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Pagina 39 - Merciful heaven! What, man! ne'er pull your hat upon your brows; Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break.
Pagina 179 - Purification in the old law did save, And such, as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in Heaven without restraint, Came vested all in white, pure as her mind. Her face was...
Pagina 123 - Nay, take my life and all; pardon not that. You take my house, when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house ; you take my life, When you do take the means whereby I live.
Pagina 178 - CROMWELL, our chief of men, who through a cloud Not of war only, but detractions rude, Guided by faith and matchless fortitude, To peace and truth thy glorious way hast ploughed...
Pagina 391 - The loyalty, well held to fools, does make Our faith mere folly: — Yet he that can endure To follow with allegiance a fallen lord, Does conquer him that did his master conquer, And earns a place i
Pagina 178 - When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones, Forget not : in thy book record their groans Who were thy sheep, and in their ancient fold Slain by the bloody Piedmontese, that rolled Mother with infant down the rocks.
Pagina 175 - Saturn laughed and leaped with him. Yet nor the lays of birds, nor the sweet smell Of different flowers in odour and in hue, Could make me any summer's story tell: Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew: Nor...
Pagina 192 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! Heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life ; then when there hath been thrown Wit able enough to justify the town For three days past ; wit that might warrant be For the whole City to talk foolishly Till that were cancell'd ; and when that was gone, We left an air behind us, which alone...
Pagina 178 - O'er all the Italian fields, where still doth sway The triple Tyrant ; that from these may grow A hundredfold, who, having learnt thy way, Early may fly the Babylonian woe.
Pagina 233 - Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves.