New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 40Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth E. W. Allen, 1834 |
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... things essentially of the earth earthy . Dante has spoken of what the Italian poets must have learned but too feelingly under their protecting princes - the bitter taste of another's bread , the weary steps by which the stairs of ...
... things essentially of the earth earthy . Dante has spoken of what the Italian poets must have learned but too feelingly under their protecting princes - the bitter taste of another's bread , the weary steps by which the stairs of ...
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... things- The richly graced , the exquisite , are things To fear , to love with trembling ! -beautiful Is the pure flame when on thy hearth it shines , When in the friendly torch it gives thee light , How gracious and ho and how calm ...
... things- The richly graced , the exquisite , are things To fear , to love with trembling ! -beautiful Is the pure flame when on thy hearth it shines , When in the friendly torch it gives thee light , How gracious and ho and how calm ...
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... thing alone remains - one mournful boon- Nature on us , her suffering children , showers The gift of tears - the ... things divine , And pour'd my spirit over Palestine , In honour of the sacred war for Him , The God who was on ...
... thing alone remains - one mournful boon- Nature on us , her suffering children , showers The gift of tears - the ... things divine , And pour'd my spirit over Palestine , In honour of the sacred war for Him , The God who was on ...
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... thing , ye'd throw me into the first well or ditch , instid of taking me round the country for a show . " Returning one evening from a pilgrimage to the holy well of Tub- berara , ( the exact locality is of small matter to the English ...
... thing , ye'd throw me into the first well or ditch , instid of taking me round the country for a show . " Returning one evening from a pilgrimage to the holy well of Tub- berara , ( the exact locality is of small matter to the English ...
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... thing there was at random : but a shake of the mental kaleidoscope brought a new formation to life , and " pitch and rosin " were the two words that suggested themselves . These he continued to repeat as industriously as he had done the ...
... thing there was at random : but a shake of the mental kaleidoscope brought a new formation to life , and " pitch and rosin " were the two words that suggested themselves . These he continued to repeat as industriously as he had done the ...
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Page 142 - Grace was in all her steps, Heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love.
Page 43 - Osiris, took the virgin truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds. From that time ever since, the sad friends of truth, such as durst appear, imitating the careful search that Isis made for the mangled body of Osiris, went up and down, gathering up limb by limb still as they could find them.
Page 43 - The light which we have gained, was given us, not to be ever staring on, but by it to discover onward things more remote from our knowledge.
Page 43 - We have not yet found them all, lords and commons, nor ever shall do, till her master's second coming ; he shall bring together every joint and member, and shall mould them into an immortal feature of loveliness and perfection.
Page 43 - Truth indeed came once into the world with her divine Master, and was a perfect shape most glorious to look on; but when he ascended, and his apostles after him were laid asleep, then straight arose a wicked race of deceivers, who, as that story goes of the Egyptian Typhon with his conspirators how they dealt with the good Osiris, took the virgin Truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds.
Page 301 - He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers...
Page 193 - Pont-Neuf at Paris, that more people go to see the horse than the king who sits upon it. On the contrary, it gives me a just indignation to see a person whose action gives new majesty to kings, resolution to heroes, and softness to lovers, thus sinking from the greatness of his behaviour, and degraded into the character of the London Prentice.
Page 46 - ... in this land throughout all ages ; whereby this great and warlike nation, instructed and inured to the fervent and continual practice of truth and righteousness, and casting far from her the rags of her old vices, may press on hard to that high and happy emulation to be found the soberest, wisest, and most Christian people...
Page 46 - ... where they undoubtedly, that by their labours, counsels, and prayers, have been earnest for the common good of religion and their country, shall receive above the inferior orders of the blessed, the regal addition of principalities, legions, and thrones into their glorious titles, and in supereminence of beatific vision, progressing the dateless and irrevoluble circle of eternity, shall clasp inseparable hands with joy and bliss,
Page 378 - We aspire in vain to assign limits to the works of creation in space, whether we examine the starry heavens, or that world of minute animalcules which is revealed to us by the microscope. We are prepared, therefore, to find that in time also the confines of the universe lie beyond the reach of mortal ken. But in whatever direction we pursue our researches, whether in time or space, we discover everywhere the clear proofs of a Creative Intelligence, and of His foresight, wisdom, and power.