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... Nature will send forth a blight over the face of our establishment , and wither up all the graces and talents which , at one time , signalized it . Not that some adverse revolution of the ele- ments will bring along with it some strange ...
... Nature will send forth a blight over the face of our establishment , and wither up all the graces and talents which , at one time , signalized it . Not that some adverse revolution of the ele- ments will bring along with it some strange ...
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... Nature had designed me to take up only some insignificant and obscure corner in the universe , I was so diminutive a crea- ture that a quart pot could contain the whole of me with ease . " " From such beginnings mighty things arise ; Se ...
... Nature had designed me to take up only some insignificant and obscure corner in the universe , I was so diminutive a crea- ture that a quart pot could contain the whole of me with ease . " " From such beginnings mighty things arise ; Se ...
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... nature , to grow rich by knavery , and a learned kind of theft ; yet this I can say for myself ( and I neither have , nor shall be too lavish in my own praise , ) that I never printed another's Copy , went upon his Project , nor stole ...
... nature , to grow rich by knavery , and a learned kind of theft ; yet this I can say for myself ( and I neither have , nor shall be too lavish in my own praise , ) that I never printed another's Copy , went upon his Project , nor stole ...
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... nature , which were pursued with such avidity of hope , and such intense application of thought by the elder alchemists , we seem now to know little or nothing . Their spe- cific results are scarcely regarded , and their effect upon the ...
... nature , which were pursued with such avidity of hope , and such intense application of thought by the elder alchemists , we seem now to know little or nothing . Their spe- cific results are scarcely regarded , and their effect upon the ...
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... nature , was sprung from a deeper source , as it held them with a stronger controul , than is known to the philosophy of an age like ours . These powerful feelings , whatever they may have been , pass away ; and there remains to an age ...
... nature , was sprung from a deeper source , as it held them with a stronger controul , than is known to the philosophy of an age like ours . These powerful feelings , whatever they may have been , pass away ; and there remains to an age ...
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Page 271 - And as he prayed, the fashion of his countenance was altered, and his raiment was white and glistering. 30 And, behold, there talked with him two men, which were Moses and Elias: 31 Who appeared in glory, and spake of his decease which he should accomplish at Jerusalem.
Page 354 - Triumph, my Britain, thou hast one to show To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe; He was not of an age, but for all time! And all the Muses still were in their prime When like Apollo he came forth to warm Our ears, or like a Mercury to charm! Nature herself was proud of his designs, And joyed to wear the dressing of his lines!
Page 2 - Few sorrows hath she of her own, My hope ! my joy ! my Genevieve ! She loves me best whene'er I sing The songs that make her grieve. I played a soft and doleful air, I sang an old and moving story — An old, rude song that suited well That ruin wild and hoary.
Page 57 - I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus, The whilst his iron did on the anvil cool, With open mouth swallowing a tailor's news ; Who, with his shears and measure in his hand, Standing on slippers, (which his nimble haste Had falsely thrust upon contrary feet) Told of a many thousand warlike French, That were embattailed and rank'd in Kent.
Page 139 - More graceful than her own. His wandering step Obedient to high thoughts, has visited The awful ruins of the days of old : Athens, and Tyre, and Balbec, and the waste Where stood Jerusalem, the fallen towers Of Babylon, the eternal pyramids, Memphis and Thebes, and whatsoe'er of strange Sculptured on alabaster obelisk, Or jasper tomb, or mutilated sphynx, Dark /Ethiopia in her desert hills Conceals.
Page 179 - Still o'er these scenes my memory wakes, And fondly broods with miser care ; Time but the impression deeper makes, As streams their channels deeper wear.