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Pagina 10
... whole I am rather better than otherwise , though I mend by very slow degrees . The weakness of my nerves has so debilitated my mind , that I dare neither review past wants , nor look forward into futurity ; for the least anxiety or ...
... whole I am rather better than otherwise , though I mend by very slow degrees . The weakness of my nerves has so debilitated my mind , that I dare neither review past wants , nor look forward into futurity ; for the least anxiety or ...
Pagina 11
... whole Bible , and would not exchange the noble enthusiasm with which they inspire me , for all that this world has to offer . As for this world , I despair of ever making a figure in it . I am not formed for the bustle of the busy , nor ...
... whole Bible , and would not exchange the noble enthusiasm with which they inspire me , for all that this world has to offer . As for this world , I despair of ever making a figure in it . I am not formed for the bustle of the busy , nor ...
Pagina 22
... whole species of young men may be naturally enough divided into two grand classes , which I shall call the grave , and the merry ; though , by the bye , these terms do not with propriety enough express my ideas . The grave I shall cast ...
... whole species of young men may be naturally enough divided into two grand classes , which I shall call the grave , and the merry ; though , by the bye , these terms do not with propriety enough express my ideas . The grave I shall cast ...
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... whole , I have very little merit in it , as my gra- titude is not a virtue , the consequence of reflec- tion ; but sheerly the instinctive emotion of a heart , too inattentive to allow worldly maxims and views to settle into selfish ...
... whole , I have very little merit in it , as my gra- titude is not a virtue , the consequence of reflec- tion ; but sheerly the instinctive emotion of a heart , too inattentive to allow worldly maxims and views to settle into selfish ...
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... whole impression is already exhausted . It were there- fore much to be wished , for the sake of the young man , that a second edition , more numer- ous than the former , could immediately be print- ed ; as it appears certain that its ...
... whole impression is already exhausted . It were there- fore much to be wished , for the sake of the young man , that a second edition , more numer- ous than the former , could immediately be print- ed ; as it appears certain that its ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 20 - ... mortal, I have various sources of pleasure and enjoyment, which are, in a manner, peculiar to myself, or some here and there such other outof-the-way person. Such is the peculiar pleasure I take in the season of WINTER, more than the rest of the year. This, I believe, may be partly owing to my misfortunes giving my mind a melancholy cast : but there is something even in the ' Mighty tempest, and the hoary waste, Abrupt, and deep stretch'd o'er the buried earth," which raises the mind to a serious...
Pagina 159 - I have some favourite flowers in spring, among which are the mountain-daisy, the hare-bell, the fox-glove, the wild-brier rose, the budding birch, and the hoary hawthorn, that I view and hang over with particular delight.
Pagina 496 - Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say her body thought.
Pagina 100 - The gloomy night is gathering fast — when a letter from Dr. Blacklock to a friend of mine, overthrew all my schemes, by opening new prospects to my poetic ambition.
Pagina 84 - This cultivated the latent seeds of poetry ; but had so strong an effect on my imagination, that to this hour, in my nocturnal rambles, I sometimes keep a sharp look-out in suspicious places; and though nobody can be more sceptical than I am in such matters, yet it often takes an effort of philosophy to shake off these idle terrorS.
Pagina 100 - This sum came very seasonably, as I was thinking of indenting myself, for want of money to procure my passage. As soon as I was master of nine guineas, the price of wafting me to the torrid zone, I took a steerage passage in the first ship that was to sail from the Clyde...
Pagina 87 - In short, she, altogether unwittingly to herself, initiated me in that delicious passion, which, in spite of acid disappointment, gin-horse prudence, and book-worm philosophy, I hold to be the first of human joys, our dearest blessing here below...
Pagina 375 - Scotland, that it was Robert Bruce's march at the battle of Bannockburn. This thought, in my solitary wanderings, warmed me to a pitch of enthusiasm on the theme of liberty and independence, which I threw into a kind of Scottish ode, fitted to the air, that one might suppose to be the gallant Royal Scot's address to his heroic followers on that eventful morning.
Pagina 605 - I saw in the visions of my head upon my bed, and behold, a watcher and an holy one came down from heaven. He cried aloud, and said thus, Hew down the tree, and cut off his branches ; shake off his leaves, and scatter his fruit; let the beasts get away from under it, and the fowls from his branches.
Pagina 434 - The snaw-drap and primrose our woodlands adorn, And violets bathe in the weet o' the morn ; They pain my sad bosom, sae sweetly they blaw, They mind me o...