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... give a sketch of the history of discovery with regard to the point in question . Among them , the addresses of Sir J. Herschel hold the most conspicuous place ; and we have no hesitation in saying they are the most beautiful things of ...
... give a sketch of the history of discovery with regard to the point in question . Among them , the addresses of Sir J. Herschel hold the most conspicuous place ; and we have no hesitation in saying they are the most beautiful things of ...
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... give him the least trouble . The object of this publication is for the first time to diffuse among the people of this country a knowledge and right appreciation of the principles of high art in design , as exemplified in those wonderful ...
... give him the least trouble . The object of this publication is for the first time to diffuse among the people of this country a knowledge and right appreciation of the principles of high art in design , as exemplified in those wonderful ...
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... give us its history ; they give us its philosophy ; but we want its picture . " The object of her own work she after- 6 wards explains thus : " We trust we shall 1934 . 15 A REVIEW FOR THE MANY .
... give us its history ; they give us its philosophy ; but we want its picture . " The object of her own work she after- 6 wards explains thus : " We trust we shall 1934 . 15 A REVIEW FOR THE MANY .
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... give them to the people in a cheap and tasteful form . The sale of Wordsworth's poems within the last year has , we are informed , been double that of any previous year : how is this ? the despised " Penny Magazine , " the destroyer of ...
... give them to the people in a cheap and tasteful form . The sale of Wordsworth's poems within the last year has , we are informed , been double that of any previous year : how is this ? the despised " Penny Magazine , " the destroyer of ...
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... give vent to his agony by muttering deep and low between the teeth , " What a bore ! " He is certainly an insufferable annoyance . Not as described by the authoress , with whom , exceedingly to our amazement , he is a prodigious ...
... give vent to his agony by muttering deep and low between the teeth , " What a bore ! " He is certainly an insufferable annoyance . Not as described by the authoress , with whom , exceedingly to our amazement , he is a prodigious ...
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Page 278 - Then suddenly, with timorous eye She fled to me and wept. She half enclosed me with her arms, She pressed me with a meek embrace; And bending back her head, looked up, And gazed upon my face. 'Twas partly love, and partly fear, And partly 'twas a bashful art, That I might rather feel, than see, The swelling of her heart.
Page 157 - When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me ; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tomb-stone, my heart melts with compassion ; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow...
Page 278 - twixt Now and Then! This breathing house not built with hands, This body that does me grievous wrong, O'er aery cliffs and glittering sands, How lightly then it flashed along : — Like those trim skiffs, unknown of yore, On winding lakes and rivers wide, That ask no aid of sail or oar, That fear no spite of wind or tide!
Page 278 - All impulses of soul and sense Had thrilled my guileless Genevieve; The music and the doleful tale, The rich and balmy eve; And hopes, and fears that kindle hope, An undistinguishable throng, And gentle wishes long subdued, Subdued and cherished long!
Page 279 - O'er wayward childhood would'st thou hold firm rule, And sun thee in the light of happy faces, Love, Hope, and Patience, these must be thy graces, And in thine own heart let them first keep school.
Page 180 - My manhood, long misled by wand'ring fires, Follow'd false lights; and, when their glimpse was gone, My pride struck out new sparkles of her own. Such was I, such by nature still I am; Be thine the glory, and be mine the shame. Good life be now my task: my doubts are done (What more could fright my faith, than three in one?) Can I believe eternal God could lie Disguis'd in mortal mold and infancy?
Page 52 - In climes beyond the solar road, Where shaggy forms o'er ice-built mountains roam, The Muse has broke the twilight gloom To cheer the shivering native's dull abode. And oft, beneath the odorous shade Of Chili's boundless forests laid, She deigns to hear the savage youth repeat In loose numbers wildly sweet Their feather-cinctured chiefs, and dusky loves. Her track, where'er the Goddess roves, Glory pursue and generous Shame, The...
Page 21 - All the faculties of Burns's mind were, as far as I could judge, equally vigorous ; and his predilection for poetry was rather the result of his own enthusiastic and impassioned temper, than of a genius exclusively adapted to that species of composition. From his conversation I should have pronounced him to be fitted to excel in whatever walk of ambition he had chosen to exert his abilities.
Page 11 - In this mansion he had for some time dwelt in peace and plenty, without danger to his person, by swallows from above, or to his palace, by brooms from below : when it was the pleasure of fortune to conduct...
Page 27 - Were I to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me during life, and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss, and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading.