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... nature , and mastery of language of a Hume , a Robertson , and a Gibbon , to adorn and invigorate history , Sir ... natural to expect from his grand- sons . The general idea of Lord Chatham , a name synonymous with every thing ...
... nature , and mastery of language of a Hume , a Robertson , and a Gibbon , to adorn and invigorate history , Sir ... natural to expect from his grand- sons . The general idea of Lord Chatham , a name synonymous with every thing ...
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... Nature now has tricked her Fair form in flowers , the thoughts are out of tune , Which , moping over Mirabeau or Richter , Are silent in this merry month of June . The birds refute you : every feathered chorister Is singing to the world ...
... Nature now has tricked her Fair form in flowers , the thoughts are out of tune , Which , moping over Mirabeau or Richter , Are silent in this merry month of June . The birds refute you : every feathered chorister Is singing to the world ...
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... nature is to be cherished , cannot conceive how Lord Shaftesbury came while we must confess that imperfection is to be a philosopher in vogue . I will tell germain to the constitution of man . We you : first , he was a Lord ; secondly ...
... nature is to be cherished , cannot conceive how Lord Shaftesbury came while we must confess that imperfection is to be a philosopher in vogue . I will tell germain to the constitution of man . We you : first , he was a Lord ; secondly ...
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... nature . We have marked for parted at dawn . Before a gentle gale the reprehension in our copy of " Nile Notes " Ibis fleetly flew in the star - light , serenaded many inelegancies of expression , passages by the Sallias ; " and with ...
... nature . We have marked for parted at dawn . Before a gentle gale the reprehension in our copy of " Nile Notes " Ibis fleetly flew in the star - light , serenaded many inelegancies of expression , passages by the Sallias ; " and with ...
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... nature of our readers . The chapters entitled Fair Frailty and Terpsichore are not deficient in warmth of coloring certainly , but we must speak of them in terms of condemnation . We are Page 135 : " Form so perfect was never yet carved ...
... nature of our readers . The chapters entitled Fair Frailty and Terpsichore are not deficient in warmth of coloring certainly , but we must speak of them in terms of condemnation . We are Page 135 : " Form so perfect was never yet carved ...
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Page 71 - For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity, Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue.
Page 459 - Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight. I love thee freely, as men strive for Right ; I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise. I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints, — I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life! — and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.
Page 422 - Nor shapes of men nor beasts we ken — The ice was all between. The ice was here, the ice was there, The ice was all around: It cracked and growled, and roared and howled, Like noises in a swound!
Page 171 - ... it is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national Union to your collective and individual happiness...
Page 285 - The world can never give The bliss for which we sigh ; 'Tis not the whole of life to live, Nor all of death to die.
Page 71 - For nature then (The coarser pleasures of my boyish days, And their glad animal movements all gone by) To me was all in all. — I cannot paint What then I was. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion : the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite ; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye.
Page 76 - The stars of midnight shall be dear To her; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face.
Page 510 - Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence : Here we may reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in hell : Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven.
Page 31 - In the same pious confidence, beside her friend and sister, here sleep the remains of Dorothy Gray, widow, the careful, tender mother of many children, one of whom alone had the misfortune to survive her.
Page 220 - But to her heart, her heart was voluble, Paining with eloquence her balmy side; As though a tongueless nightingale should swell Her throat in vain, and die, heart-stifled, in her dell.