The Doctor's Vision. An Allegory |
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admiration Allegory allowed ance apartment appearance Architect aroused assistance astonished beauty bitants BREAD STREET bright building carried castle centre gate centre hall chamber CHAPTER character circular form clothed in white Colour communication compartment Conscientiousness covered curious difficulty Doctor's Vision door drawbridge dust earth endeavours Energy entrance erected exclaimed exquisite eyes fairy guide falls to decay Fancy feel filterer Firmness gentle glance glorious Governor greatest guide informed halo of glory Hope inha inhabitants Intemperance interior lect light little winged messengers look machine machinery Memory Memory's ment mist Music musical instrument named neighbour noble Number obey observed obstruct occu occupied owner pass perfect porter's gate porter's lodge present proportions Reason and Intellect Religion remarkable residence round tower scarcely scenes seen Self-Esteem servants side gates singular situated slightest staircase stood sway thee thou throne tion torpor Vanity ventilator visited walls wand watching whole wonderful land workmen
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Page 28 - Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more. My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me?
Page 50 - Unfading HOPE! when life's last embers burn, When soul to soul, and dust to dust return ! Heaven to thy charge resigns the awful hour! Oh! then, thy kingdom comes! Immortal Power! What though each spark of earth-born rapture fly The quivering lip, pale cheek, and closing eye! Bright to the soul thy seraph hands convey The morning dream of life's eternal day— Then, then, the triumph and the trance begin, And all the phoenix spirit burns within!
Page 11 - How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful is man ! How passing wonder He who made him such ! Who centred in our make such strange extremes, From different natures marvellously mixed, Connection exquisite of distant worlds ! Distinguished link in being's endless chain ! Midway from nothing to the Deity...
Page 28 - Waked by thy touch, I see the sister band, On tiptoe watching, start at thy command, And fly where'er thy mandate bids them steer, To Pleasure's path, or Glory's bright career.
Page 2 - Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall, God-like erect, with native honour clad In naked majesty, seemed lords of all, And worthy seemed; for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure Severe, but in true filial freedom...
Page 17 - Hope's summer-visions die, If but a fleeting cloud obscure the sky; If but a beam of sober Reason play, Lo, Fancy's fairy frost-work melts away ! But can the wiles of Art, the grasp of Power, Snatch the rich relics of a well-spent hour?
Page 38 - Manlike, but different sex, so lovely fair, That what seem'd fair in all the World, seem'd now Mean, or in her summ'd up, in her contain'd And in her looks, which from that time infus'd Sweetness into my heart, unfelt before, And into all things from her Air inspir'd The spirit of love and amorous delight.
Page 22 - His sight is microscopic and his aim sure. Quick as thought he has seized his victim and is back to his perch. There is no strife, no pursuit, — one fell swoop and the matter is ended. That little sparrow, as you will observe, is less skilled. It is the...
Page 50 - Unfading Hope ! when life's last embers burn, When soul to soul, and dust to dust return ! Heaven to thy charge resigns the awful hour ! Oh! then thy kingdom comes! Immortal Power I What though each spark of earth-born rapture fly The quivering lip, pale cheek, and closing eye ! Bright to the soul thy seraph hands convey The morning dream of life's eternal day — Then, then the triumph and the trance begin...