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... better nature summons the man to answer for the course in life he is pursuing . From the very stillness of the quiet rise up and move before the spirit in airy procession the visions of long ago - phantom hopes and wishes of former ...
... better nature summons the man to answer for the course in life he is pursuing . From the very stillness of the quiet rise up and move before the spirit in airy procession the visions of long ago - phantom hopes and wishes of former ...
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... figure of Glory that has been beckoning them , rises and is lost in upper air . Well - let it go . It were better , perhaps , that its crowned head bend over their toil hereafter from Celestial Battle- 1858. ] 13 CLOISTER SHADOWS ,
... figure of Glory that has been beckoning them , rises and is lost in upper air . Well - let it go . It were better , perhaps , that its crowned head bend over their toil hereafter from Celestial Battle- 1858. ] 13 CLOISTER SHADOWS ,
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... better sense , the curse of his life . She held a place in the family of the youngest daughter of James II , the Princess of Denmark , afterwards Queen Anne . Charles II had now died , James , Duke of York , had ascended the throne ...
... better sense , the curse of his life . She held a place in the family of the youngest daughter of James II , the Princess of Denmark , afterwards Queen Anne . Charles II had now died , James , Duke of York , had ascended the throne ...
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... better standard ? Is proof needed ? We have but to go to the islands of the Pacific , where man is , to all intents and purposes , a brute - indeed , it seems self - evident . But in proof of our general proposition , That language is ...
... better standard ? Is proof needed ? We have but to go to the islands of the Pacific , where man is , to all intents and purposes , a brute - indeed , it seems self - evident . But in proof of our general proposition , That language is ...
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... better fitted to philosophize and analyze , to propound solid propo- sitions or to announce wise maxims and prove them by the soundest and soberest of arguments . Such is the proper and natural pro- vince of age and experience . Such ...
... better fitted to philosophize and analyze , to propound solid propo- sitions or to announce wise maxims and prove them by the soundest and soberest of arguments . Such is the proper and natural pro- vince of age and experience . Such ...
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Page 82 - For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be ; Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales ; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rained a ghastly dew From the nations...
Page 172 - Read from some humbler poet. Whose songs gushed from his heart. As showers from the clouds of summer. Or tears from the eyelids start; Who, through long days of labor. And nights devoid of ease. Still heard in his soul the music Of wonderful melodies.
Page 21 - How sleep the brave who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod.
Page 168 - Some useful plan or book could make, Or sing a sang at least.
Page 83 - tis well that I should bluster! — Hadst thou less unworthy proved — Would to God — for I had loved thee more than ever wife was loved. Am I mad, that I should cherish that which bears but bitter fruit ? I will pluck it from my bosom, though my heart be at the root.
Page 161 - In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world. There the common sense of most shall hold a fretful realm in awe, And the kindly earth shall slumber, lapt in universal law.
Page 227 - I wind about, and in and out, With here a blossom sailing, And here and there a lusty trout, And here and there a grayling.
Page 21 - ... these cannot expire; — These shall resist the empire of decay, When time is o'er, and worlds have passed away; Cold in the dust the perished heart may lie, But that which warmed it once can never die.
Page 81 - Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns.
Page 124 - IN tattered old slippers that toast at the bars, And a ragged old jacket perfumed with cigars, Away from the world and its toils and its cares, I've a snug little kingdom up four pair of stairs. To mount to this realm is a toil, to be sure, But the fire there is bright and the air rather pure ; And the view I behold on a sunshiny day Is grand through the chimney-pots over the way. This snug little chamber is...