Letters of Anna Seward: Written Between the Years 1784 and 1807, Volume 1A. Constable, 1811 - 432 pagina's |
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... thought more satisfactory to the public that the whole of these letters should be laid before it at once , rather than that they should be published as she seems to have wished , -in detached portions . Neither must it be concealed ...
... thought more satisfactory to the public that the whole of these letters should be laid before it at once , rather than that they should be published as she seems to have wished , -in detached portions . Neither must it be concealed ...
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... THOUGHTS , " " How few , of human kind , bring back at eve , Immaculate , the manners of the morn ! ” A rheumatic complaint obliged me to make an excursion to Buxton this summer , though most unwilling to leave my dearest father , in ...
... THOUGHTS , " " How few , of human kind , bring back at eve , Immaculate , the manners of the morn ! ” A rheumatic complaint obliged me to make an excursion to Buxton this summer , though most unwilling to leave my dearest father , in ...
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... thought more steady than the ebbing sea ; " but excessive instability of every sort counteracts the pleasures I should otherwise feel in his company , and reconciles me to the seldomness of his visits . From the gay cor- diality with ...
... thought more steady than the ebbing sea ; " but excessive instability of every sort counteracts the pleasures I should otherwise feel in his company , and reconciles me to the seldomness of his visits . From the gay cor- diality with ...
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... thought it for the interest of morality and literature , to believe exalted genius good as great , and , in a considerable degree , exempt from human depravity ; such be- lief having a natural tendency to inspirit the pur- suit of ...
... thought it for the interest of morality and literature , to believe exalted genius good as great , and , in a considerable degree , exempt from human depravity ; such be- lief having a natural tendency to inspirit the pur- suit of ...
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... ; but I have often thought , that we never rise from any composition by the pen of the illustrious , with exactly the same degree of respect for the talents of the au- thor with which we sat down to peruse it ; LETTER X. 39.
... ; but I have often thought , that we never rise from any composition by the pen of the illustrious , with exactly the same degree of respect for the talents of the au- thor with which we sat down to peruse it ; LETTER X. 39.
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Letters of Anna Seward: Written Between the Years 1784 and 1807, Volume 1 Anna Seward Volledige weergave - 1811 |
Letters of Anna Seward: Written Between the Years 1784 and 1807, Volume 1 Anna Seward Volledige weergave - 1811 |
Letters of Anna Seward: Written Between the Years 1784 and 1807, Volume 1 Anna Seward Volledige weergave - 1811 |
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Pagina 218 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice...
Pagina 360 - Thyself how wondrous then! Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens To us invisible, or dimly seen In these Thy lowest works : yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine. Speak, ye who best can tell, ye sons of light, Angels ! for ye behold him, and with songs And choral symphonies, day without night, Circle his throne rejoicing : ye in heaven, On earth join all ye creatures to extol Him first, him last, him midst, and without end.
Pagina 356 - Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.
Pagina 110 - This pow'r has praise that virtue scarce can warm, Till fame supplies the universal charm. Yet Reason frowns on War's unequal game, Where wasted nations raise a single name; And mortgag'd states their grandsires...
Pagina 19 - Thou sun, of this great world both eye and soul, Acknowledge him thy greater ; sound his praise In thy eternal course, both when thou climb'st, And when high noon hast gain'd, and when thou fall'st.
Pagina 207 - Wing'd with red lightning and impetuous rage, Perhaps hath spent his shafts, and ceases now To bellow through the vast and boundless deep.
Pagina 219 - Throw hither all your quaint enamelled eyes, That on the green turf suck the honied showers, And purple all the ground with vernal flowers.
Pagina 360 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty, thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair; thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens, To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Pagina 218 - Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the muses haunt Clear spring, or shady grove, or sunny hill...
Pagina 66 - he would hang a dog that read the ' Lycidas ' of Milton twice." " What, then," replied I, " must become of me, who can say it by heart ; and who often repeat it to myself with a delight, which grows by what it feeds upon ? " " Die," returned the growler,