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... respects , the labourer acquires a greatly improved romantic form , presenting outlines which surpass in pic- position by his change of country - he labours freer , more turesque beauty the fairest creations of the painter . " In ...
... respects , the labourer acquires a greatly improved romantic form , presenting outlines which surpass in pic- position by his change of country - he labours freer , more turesque beauty the fairest creations of the painter . " In ...
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... respect to aspect and inhabitants to the neighbouring districts of Spitalfields and Stepney Green , a sort of rude , and , what I may call , grotesque plenty is visible everywhere ; and whilst in each shadow of its lusty draymen , its ...
... respect to aspect and inhabitants to the neighbouring districts of Spitalfields and Stepney Green , a sort of rude , and , what I may call , grotesque plenty is visible everywhere ; and whilst in each shadow of its lusty draymen , its ...
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... respect , may be said to be the only true reader ; for he is the only reader on whom no writing is lost . Too many people approve no book , but such as are representatives of some opinion or passion of their own . They read not to have ...
... respect , may be said to be the only true reader ; for he is the only reader on whom no writing is lost . Too many people approve no book , but such as are representatives of some opinion or passion of their own . They read not to have ...
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... respect " There are Robinson Crusoes in the moral as well as with , or a collection of favourite songs and pieces of resembles a set of pictures which it delights us to live the physical world , and even a universalist may be one of ...
... respect " There are Robinson Crusoes in the moral as well as with , or a collection of favourite songs and pieces of resembles a set of pictures which it delights us to live the physical world , and even a universalist may be one of ...
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... respect , education in England must yet , we regret to say , be regarded as having made comparatively small progress . It has but touched the loftier summits of society , as the rising sun tips the mountain tops with his radiance ...
... respect , education in England must yet , we regret to say , be regarded as having made comparatively small progress . It has but touched the loftier summits of society , as the rising sun tips the mountain tops with his radiance ...
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Page 295 - But to nobler sights Michael from Adam's eyes the film removed, Which that false fruit, that promised clearer sight. Had bred; then purged with euphrasy and rue The visual nerve, for he had much to see, And from the well of life three drops instill'd.
Page 272 - Died on his lips, and their motion revealed what his tongue would have spoken. Vainly he strove to rise ; and Evangeline, kneeling beside him, Kissed his dying lips, and laid his head on her bosom. Sweet was the light of his eyes ; but it suddenly sank into darkness, As when a lamp is blown out by a gust of wind at a casement.
Page 272 - Fair was she and young, when in hope began the long journey ; Faded was she and old, when in disappointment it ended. Each succeeding year stole something away from her beauty, Leaving behind it, broader and deeper, the gloom and the shadow. Then there appeared and spread faint streaks of gray o'er her forehead, Dawn of another life, that broke o'er her earthly horizon, As in the eastern sky the first faint streaks of the morning.
Page 330 - When Poverty comes in at the Door, love flies out of the Window.
Page 107 - For all earthly, and for some unearthly purposes, we have machines and mechanic furtherances ; for mincing our cabbages — for casting us into magnetic sleep. We remove mountains, and make seas our smooth highway; nothing can resist us. We war with rude nature; and, by our resistless engines, come off always victorious, and loaded with spoils.
Page 182 - Yes verily; and by God's help so I will. And I heartily thank our heavenly Father, that he hath called me to this state of salvation, through Jesus Christ our Saviour. And I pray unto God to give me his grace, that I may continue in the same unto my life's end.
Page 131 - Methinks the little wit I had is lost Since I saw you! For wit is like a rest Held up at tennis, which men do the best With the best gamesters. What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid!
Page 107 - Were. we required to characterize this age of ours by any single' epithet, we should be tempted to call it, not an Heroical, Devotional, Philosophical, or Moral Age, but, above all others, the Mechanical Age. It is the Age of Machinery, in' every outward and inward sense of that word...
Page 108 - Grand, gloomy, and peculiar, he sat upon the throne, a sceptered hermit, wrapt in the solitude of his own originality. A mind bold, independent, and decisive — a will, despotic in its dictates — an energy that distanced expedition, and a conscience pliable to every touch of interest, marked the outline of this...
Page 305 - The treasures of the deep are not so precious As are the concealed comforts of a man Locked up in woman's love. I scent the air Of blessings, when I come but near the house. What a delicious breath marriage sends forth. . . The violet bed's not sweeter.