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Pagina 7
... scenes in which these great men acted , their situation and rank in life , the difficulties they had to encounter , the character and maxims of the ages in which they lived , the state of knowledge in their times , and the difficulty of ...
... scenes in which these great men acted , their situation and rank in life , the difficulties they had to encounter , the character and maxims of the ages in which they lived , the state of knowledge in their times , and the difficulty of ...
Pagina 8
... scene in which he acted , we can profit no more in conversing with the most eminent , than with the most trifling characters . St. Augustine wished to have seen Rome in all its glory , and to have conversed with the most eminent men of ...
... scene in which he acted , we can profit no more in conversing with the most eminent , than with the most trifling characters . St. Augustine wished to have seen Rome in all its glory , and to have conversed with the most eminent men of ...
Pagina 11
... scenes , Ipated in this day's ride , we found its resigned myself to those delicious reve- ries of melancholy which none but the melancholy can enjoy . Every object furnished me a simile . When I be- held the waves gently pursuing each ...
... scenes , Ipated in this day's ride , we found its resigned myself to those delicious reve- ries of melancholy which none but the melancholy can enjoy . Every object furnished me a simile . When I be- held the waves gently pursuing each ...
Pagina 12
... scene was beautifully varied , the village is pleasantly situated , a branch of the Lehigh passes along its borders ... scenes with which we were familiarised , by local at- tachment and youthful prediliction . A swift current seemed ...
... scene was beautifully varied , the village is pleasantly situated , a branch of the Lehigh passes along its borders ... scenes with which we were familiarised , by local at- tachment and youthful prediliction . A swift current seemed ...
Pagina 14
... scene was lightened by Friendship ; and hospitality offered its warmest welcome . Childhood's mirthful re- trospect , and the pensive shadows of maturer life now filled up the fleeting hour . The next day we came to the turnpike , and ...
... scene was lightened by Friendship ; and hospitality offered its warmest welcome . Childhood's mirthful re- trospect , and the pensive shadows of maturer life now filled up the fleeting hour . The next day we came to the turnpike , and ...
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Pagina 71 - Churchyard" abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo. The four stanzas, beginning "Yet even these bones," are to me original; I have never seen the notions in any other place, yet he that reads them here persuades himself that he has always felt them. Had Gray written often thus, it had been vain to blame and useless to praise him.
Pagina 29 - O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness...
Pagina 237 - They say it was a shocking sight After the field was won ; For many thousand bodies here Lay rotting in the sun : But things like that, you know, must be After a famous victory. 'Great praise the Duke of Marlbro* won And our good Prince Eugene;' 'Why 'twas a very wicked thing !' Said little Wilhelmine; 'Nay . . nay . . my little girl,' quoth he, 'It was a famous victory.
Pagina 100 - ... glistering with dew, fragrant the fertile earth after soft showers, and sweet the coming on of grateful evening mild, then silent night with this her solemn bird, and this fair moon and these the gems of heaven, her starry train.
Pagina 41 - The forward violet thus did I chide : Sweet thief, whence didst thou steal thy sweet that smells, If not from my love's breath ? The purple pride Which on thy soft cheek for complexion dwells In my love's veins thou hast too grossly dyed.
Pagina 100 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening
Pagina 237 - Old Kaspar took it from the boy, Who stood expectant by; And then the old man shook his head, And with a natural sigh, ' 'Tis some poor fellow's skull,' said he, 'Who fell in the great victory.
Pagina 93 - Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him : every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an ear-ring of gold.
Pagina 219 - Celestial odours breathe through purpled air; And wings, whose colours glitter'd on the day, Wide at his back their gradual plumes display. The form ethereal bursts upon his sight, And moves in all the majesty of light...
Pagina 35 - Yea, ye yourselves know, that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me. I have showed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.