Essays on English LiteratureB.M. Pickering, 1861 - 350 pagina's |
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... never fcrupled to exercise on the works of other men ; and so , standing quite afide , he leaves them to their fortune . T. M. Chelsea , Feb. 22 , 1861 . ་ CONTENTS . Auto - biographies ( 1851-3 ) Sacred PREFACE . xi.
... never fcrupled to exercise on the works of other men ; and so , standing quite afide , he leaves them to their fortune . T. M. Chelsea , Feb. 22 , 1861 . ་ CONTENTS . Auto - biographies ( 1851-3 ) Sacred PREFACE . xi.
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... never attain notice . It occafionally happens alfo that a vanity the most contemptible , because totally unredeemed by anything worthy of mark either in character or experience , induces fome dullard to make public confeffion of his ...
... never attain notice . It occafionally happens alfo that a vanity the most contemptible , because totally unredeemed by anything worthy of mark either in character or experience , induces fome dullard to make public confeffion of his ...
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... never cherish a secret regret respecting father , or fifter , or coufin , or friend , that one of such peculiar ability , or fuch perfect but fequeftered virtue , fhould be fo little known , - that in his heart and memory only should ...
... never cherish a secret regret respecting father , or fifter , or coufin , or friend , that one of such peculiar ability , or fuch perfect but fequeftered virtue , fhould be fo little known , - that in his heart and memory only should ...
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... in the page upon which he re- cords them . A notion of the sacredness of human life seems never to intrude upon him ; and he wreaks mortal vengeance as much for an insult- ing look of one whom he dislikes , as for AUTO - BIOGRAPHIES . 21.
... in the page upon which he re- cords them . A notion of the sacredness of human life seems never to intrude upon him ; and he wreaks mortal vengeance as much for an insult- ing look of one whom he dislikes , as for AUTO - BIOGRAPHIES . 21.
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... never more receive or tender the daily counsel and encouragement , it was left her to record the exemplary career of a husband and a father , a patriot and a Chriftian . The fpirit in which her memorial was thus under- taken and written ...
... never more receive or tender the daily counsel and encouragement , it was left her to record the exemplary career of a husband and a father , a patriot and a Chriftian . The fpirit in which her memorial was thus under- taken and written ...
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Pagina 90 - I had hope to spend, Quiet though sad, the respite of that day That must be mortal to us both. O flowers That never will in other climate grow...
Pagina 170 - Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto ; whom no man hath seen, nor can see : to whom be honour and power everlasting.
Pagina 90 - With what to sight or smell was sweet, from thee How shall I part, and whither wander down Into a lower world, to this obscure And wild ? how shall we breathe in other air Less pure, accustom'd to immortal fruits?
Pagina 72 - Muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That Shepherd, who first taught the chosen seed...
Pagina 151 - Who sweeps a room, as for Thy laws, Makes that and the action fine.
Pagina 90 - Stood visible, among these pines his voice I heard, here with him at this fountain talk'd...
Pagina 258 - ... in her cloud, And the lark drop down at his feet. The swallow stopt as he hunted the bee, The snake slipt under a spray, The wild hawk stood with the down on his beak, And stared, with his foot on the prey, And the nightingale thought, '/ I have sung many songs, But never a one so gay, For he sings of what the world will be When the years have died away.
Pagina 79 - Through optic glafs the Tufcan art.ift views At evening from the top of Fefole, Or in Valdarno, to defcry new lands, Rivers or mountains in her fpotty globe. His fpear, to equal which the talleft pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the maft Of fome great ammiral, were but a wand, He walk'd with to fupport uneafy fteps Over the burning marie...
Pagina 91 - ... fountain talk'd :' So many grateful altars I would rear Of grassy turf, and pile up every stone Of...
Pagina 139 - The word this man spoke has been the lifeguidance now of one hundred and eighty millions of men these twelve hundred years. These hundred and eighty millions were made by God as well as we. A greater number of God's creatures believe in Mahomet's word at this hour than in any other word whatever.