A System of PhrenologyHarper & Bros., 1860 - 492 pagina's |
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Pagina 221 - The friends so link'd together, I've seen around me fall Like leaves in wintry weather I feel like one who treads alone Some banquet hall deserted ; Whose lights are fled, whose garland's dead, And all but he departed." In these instances we have the most unexpected resemblances presented to the mind, beautiful, as I have said,
Pagina 202 - as the solar walk, or Milky Way ; Yet simple nature to his hope has given, Behind the cloud-topp'd hill an humbler heaven : Some safer world, in depth of woods embraced ; Some happier island in the watery waste ; Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no
Pagina 302 - When Ajax strives some rock's huge weight to throw, The line, too, labours, and the words move slow ; Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the mam.
Pagina 303 - When I remember all The friends so linked together, I've seen around me fall Like leaves in wintry weather ; I feel like one who treads alone Some banquet hall deserted ; Whose lights are fled, whose garland's
Pagina 190 - The greatest of poets has said : " O thou goddess, Thou divine Nature, how thyself thou blazon'st In these two princely boys ! They are as gentle As zephyrs, blowing below the violet, Not wagging his sweet head ; and yet as rough, Their royal blood
Pagina 193 - in this sense, the affecting of the weal of men, which is that the Grecians call philanthropia ; and the word humanity (as it is used) is a little too light to express it. Goodness I call the habit, and goodness of nature the inclination. This, of all virtues and dignities of the mind, is the greatest, being the
Pagina 145 - It is an instinctive tendency to conceal, and the legitimate object of it is, to restrain the outward expression of our thoughts and emotions, till the understanding shall have pronounced judgment on its propriety. " A fool," says Solomon, " uttereth all his mind ; but a wise man keepeth it in till afterward."*
Pagina 276 - W/iitsunweek, when the prince broke thy head for likening his father to a singing man of Windsor ; thou didst swear to me then, as I was washing thy wound, to marry me, and make me my lady thy wife. Canst thou deny it'! Did not
Pagina 221 - Hope, like the glimmering taper's light, Adorns and cheers the way, And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray." But this, in point of fact, is only exquisitely beautiful, and not in
Pagina 276 - a singing man of Windsor ; thou didst swear to me then, as I was washing thy wound, to marry me, and make me my lady thy wife. Canst thou deny it'! Did not