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... beautiful words and images for their own sake , and in expressing his personal feel- ings with great intensity , while at the same time , like the prose writers , he has in view some practical and didactic end . The chief Victorian ...
... beautiful words and images for their own sake , and in expressing his personal feel- ings with great intensity , while at the same time , like the prose writers , he has in view some practical and didactic end . The chief Victorian ...
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... beautiful . His soul is every day dilated to receive that God , in whom he is ; and hath attained to love himself for God , and God for His own sake . His eyes stick so fast in heaven that no earthly object can remove them ; yea , his ...
... beautiful . His soul is every day dilated to receive that God , in whom he is ; and hath attained to love himself for God , and God for His own sake . His eyes stick so fast in heaven that no earthly object can remove them ; yea , his ...
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... beautiful in the whole world , and that's the reason why no one of them , nor all together with all their charms , have power to tempt away any knight from another . He differs from a just historian as a joiner does from a carpenter ...
... beautiful in the whole world , and that's the reason why no one of them , nor all together with all their charms , have power to tempt away any knight from another . He differs from a just historian as a joiner does from a carpenter ...
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... beautiful than when I first saw it ; there is no decay in any feature , which I can- not trace from the very instant it was occasioned by some anxious concern for my welfare and interests . Thus at the same time , methinks , the love I ...
... beautiful than when I first saw it ; there is no decay in any feature , which I can- not trace from the very instant it was occasioned by some anxious concern for my welfare and interests . Thus at the same time , methinks , the love I ...
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... beautiful gloss and varnish ; every thing he says or does is accompanied with a manner , or rather a charm , that draws the admiration and good - will of every beholder . ADVERTISEMENT For the benefit of my female readers N. B. - The ...
... beautiful gloss and varnish ; every thing he says or does is accompanied with a manner , or rather a charm , that draws the admiration and good - will of every beholder . ADVERTISEMENT For the benefit of my female readers N. B. - The ...
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Page 64 - I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow; when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
Page 7 - ... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.
Page 30 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business.
Page 7 - Truth, (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene,) and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below; so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride. Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.
Page 31 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend: Abeunt studia in mores!
Page 229 - Their palaces were houses not made with hands ; their diadems crowns of glory which should never fade away. On the rich and the eloquent, on nobles and priests, they looked down with contempt; for they esteemed themselves rich in a more precious treasure, and eloquent in a more sublime language, nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand.
Page 13 - Magna civitas, magna solitudo'; because in a great town friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship, for the most part, which is in less neighbourhoods: but we may go further, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends, without which the world is but a wilderness; and even in this sense also of solitude, whosoever in the frame of his nature and affections is unfit for friendship, he taketh it of the beast, and not from humanity.
Page 12 - But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Page 70 - What is the reason, said I, that the tide I see rises out of a thick mist at one end, and again loses itself in a thick mist at the other? What thou seest, said he, is that portion of eternity which is called time, measured out by the sun, and reaching from the beginning of the world to its consummation. Examine now...
Page 199 - Saturn laugh'd and leap'd with him. Yet nor the lays of birds , nor the sweet smell Of different flowers in odour and in hue, Could make me any summer's story tell, Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew : Nor...