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... individual is stronger and better ; and for eminence therein do men especially choose to hold each other in honor . But for them , indeed , we should have no natural intimation of our superior destiny . If there was nothing in man that ...
... individual is stronger and better ; and for eminence therein do men especially choose to hold each other in honor . But for them , indeed , we should have no natural intimation of our superior destiny . If there was nothing in man that ...
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... individuals , although the effect of the same cause , truth is invariably the same to all minds , and needs only to be distinctly revealed , to command the assent of all . For the same reason , namely , that truth is indepen- dent of ...
... individuals , although the effect of the same cause , truth is invariably the same to all minds , and needs only to be distinctly revealed , to command the assent of all . For the same reason , namely , that truth is indepen- dent of ...
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... individual mind , which the author cannot foresee , and if he could foresee , could not by abstract reasoning remove ; nor can he thus remove those which he does foresee , without the coöperation of the reader's own labor . But ...
... individual mind , which the author cannot foresee , and if he could foresee , could not by abstract reasoning remove ; nor can he thus remove those which he does foresee , without the coöperation of the reader's own labor . But ...
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... individual , successfully struggling to maintain purity of virtue amid poverty and temptations , are objects of sublimity ; but the ennobling admiration thus inspired is one of the purest ministers of beauty . So in any work of art , an ...
... individual , successfully struggling to maintain purity of virtue amid poverty and temptations , are objects of sublimity ; but the ennobling admiration thus inspired is one of the purest ministers of beauty . So in any work of art , an ...
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... individual ideas . The mind has been instructed by its Creator to find variety of this enjoyment in single views of masses , in final causes and manifold generalizations . But as it can unite ideas only by remarking in succession their ...
... individual ideas . The mind has been instructed by its Creator to find variety of this enjoyment in single views of masses , in final causes and manifold generalizations . But as it can unite ideas only by remarking in succession their ...
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Page 128 - The sober herd that lowed to meet their young; The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school; The watchdog's voice that bayed the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind; These all in sweet confusion sought the shade, And filled each pause the nightingale had made.
Page 116 - When even at last the solemn hour shall come, And wing my mystic flight to future worlds, I cheerful will obey; there, with new powers, Will rising wonders sing. I cannot go Where universal love not smiles around, Sustaining all yon orbs, and all their suns; From seeming evil still educing good, And better thence again, and better still, In infinite progression.
Page 115 - Should fate command me to the farthest verge Of the green earth, to distant, barbarous climes, Rivers unknown to song, — where first the sun Gilds Indian mountains, or his setting beam Flames on the Atlantic isles, — 'tis nought to me : Since God is ever present, ever felt, In the void waste as in the city full ; And where He vital breathes, there must be joy.
Page 133 - DAY set on Norham's castled steep, And Tweed's fair river, broad and deep, And Cheviot's mountains lone ; The battled towers, the donjon keep, The loophole grates where captives weep, The flanking walls that round it sweep, In yellow lustre shone.
Page 127 - Sweet was the sound, when oft at evening's close Up yonder hill the village murmur rose; There, as I passed with careless steps and slow, The mingling notes came softened from below; The swain responsive as the milkmaid sung, The sober herd that lowed to meet their young; The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school; The watchdog's voice that bayed the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind...
Page 87 - Light quirks of music, broken and uneven, Make the soul dance upon a jig to heaven. On painted ceilings you devoutly stare, Where sprawl the saints of Verrio or Laguerre, On gilded clouds in fair expansion lie, And bring all paradise before your eye.
Page 215 - O ! then I see Queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners...
Page 216 - tis, to cast one's eyes so low! The crows and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon...
Page 216 - tis to cast one's eyes so low ! The crows, and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles. Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire ; dreadful trade ! Methinks he seems no bigger than his head. The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice ; and yon' tall, anchoring bark, Diminished to her cock ; her cock, a buoy Almost too small for sight.
Page 116 - BLANC, The Arve and Arveiron at thy base Rave ceaselessly; but thou, most awful Form! Risest from forth thy silent sea of pines, How silently! Around thee and above Deep is the air and dark, substantial, black, An ebon mass: methinks thou piercest it, As with a wedge! But when I look again...