The Opal, Volume 2State Lunatic Asylum, 1852 |
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... seem- ed , like most inebriates , somewhat conscious of his own deficiencies , when in company of the virtuous . He vowed he would be the source of in- dependent happiness to his family , and so he dashed to the floor his cup of ...
... seem- ed , like most inebriates , somewhat conscious of his own deficiencies , when in company of the virtuous . He vowed he would be the source of in- dependent happiness to his family , and so he dashed to the floor his cup of ...
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... seem with kindred ones To rest my weary head . Sometimes I think my sun is set . ' Twill gild my sky no more , Then hope's dim star still lingers yet , Some faint beams to restore . This " wildering dream " that o'er my soul , Its ...
... seem with kindred ones To rest my weary head . Sometimes I think my sun is set . ' Twill gild my sky no more , Then hope's dim star still lingers yet , Some faint beams to restore . This " wildering dream " that o'er my soul , Its ...
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... seems to fall upon my ear , as the Much did she love to roam in the mazes of zephyrs flit by , dismal whisperings that new literature , or drink at its Elysian fountains . and unforeseen trials await us . ” Thus , no day passed without ...
... seems to fall upon my ear , as the Much did she love to roam in the mazes of zephyrs flit by , dismal whisperings that new literature , or drink at its Elysian fountains . and unforeseen trials await us . ” Thus , no day passed without ...
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... seems to be to prevent intelligence from be- more now , as I desire room to name Wash- ing wearied with needless attention , and best ington , and his Generals , by the same , and devote that which it most skilfully bestows . mention ...
... seems to be to prevent intelligence from be- more now , as I desire room to name Wash- ing wearied with needless attention , and best ington , and his Generals , by the same , and devote that which it most skilfully bestows . mention ...
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... seems brightly fair . There's mirth within these walls , And smiling faces too , --- There's dancing in the halls , And sober ones are few . Enchantment seems to rest On all terrestrial things , In snowy robes are drest The vales where ...
... seems brightly fair . There's mirth within these walls , And smiling faces too , --- There's dancing in the halls , And sober ones are few . Enchantment seems to rest On all terrestrial things , In snowy robes are drest The vales where ...
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Page 373 - It must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well ; Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? Tis the divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man...
Page 373 - Soon as the evening shades prevail The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth...
Page 333 - Treason, treason!" echoed from every part of the house. Henry faltered not for an instant, but, taking a loftier attitude, and fixing on the speaker an eye of fire, he added " may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it...
Page 88 - Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent ; Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect in a hair as heart ; As full, as perfect in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and burns. To Him no high, no low, no great, no small ; He fills, He bounds, connects and equals all.
Page 167 - The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven ; And, as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation, and a name. Such tricks hath strong imagination, That, if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends some bringer of that joy ; Or, in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear ! Hip.
Page 298 - These are the eternal immutable laws of good and evil, to which the Creator himself, in all his dispensations, conforms; and which he has enabled human reason to discover, so far as they are necessary for the conduct of human actions.
Page 88 - Were we to press, inferior might on ours; Or in the full creation leave a void, Where, one step broken, the great scale's destroy'd: From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. And, if each system in gradation roll Alike essential to th' amazing whole, The least confusion but in one, not all That system only, but the whole must fall.
Page 352 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death ! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded ; what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised ; thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet...
Page 86 - AWAKE, my St John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die...
Page 87 - Better for us, perhaps, it might appear, Were there all harmony, all virtue here; That never air or ocean felt the wind; That never passion discomposed the mind. But all subsists by elemental strife; And passions are the elements of life.