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... Nature is only epical here . She has no little lyrics of green groves , and blooming woods , and sequestered lanes -no lonely pastoral landscapes . But from every point the Egyptian could behold the desert heights , and the river , and ...
... Nature is only epical here . She has no little lyrics of green groves , and blooming woods , and sequestered lanes -no lonely pastoral landscapes . But from every point the Egyptian could behold the desert heights , and the river , and ...
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... nature , allows no prominent points . Washington is undoubtedly always under- rated in our judgments , because he was so well proportioned ; and the finest musical performance has such natural ease and quiet , and the colors and ...
... nature , allows no prominent points . Washington is undoubtedly always under- rated in our judgments , because he was so well proportioned ; and the finest musical performance has such natural ease and quiet , and the colors and ...
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... nature was the most purely proportioned of any that we know - and this beautiful balance breathes its character through all Greek art . The Greeks were as much the masters of their world , physically , and infinitely more ...
... nature was the most purely proportioned of any that we know - and this beautiful balance breathes its character through all Greek art . The Greeks were as much the masters of their world , physically , and infinitely more ...
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... nature , nor even ele- gance refined or embellished her beauties . The walks are only worn by the tread of the shepherds , and the banks only smoothed by the feeding of their flocks . There , too dan- gerous society ! have I passed ...
... nature , nor even ele- gance refined or embellished her beauties . The walks are only worn by the tread of the shepherds , and the banks only smoothed by the feeding of their flocks . There , too dan- gerous society ! have I passed ...
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... nature , as to outlive all the accidents of chance and change which occur to us in after life . Should the poet or painter in his study endeavor to place before his mind's eye the picture of a brilliant sun- set , he insensibly recalls ...
... nature , as to outlive all the accidents of chance and change which occur to us in after life . Should the poet or painter in his study endeavor to place before his mind's eye the picture of a brilliant sun- set , he insensibly recalls ...
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Page 71 - For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity, Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue.
Page 459 - Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight. I love thee freely, as men strive for Right ; I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise. I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints, — I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life! — and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.
Page 422 - Nor shapes of men nor beasts we ken — The ice was all between. The ice was here, the ice was there, The ice was all around: It cracked and growled, and roared and howled, Like noises in a swound!
Page 171 - ... it is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national Union to your collective and individual happiness...
Page 285 - The world can never give The bliss for which we sigh ; 'Tis not the whole of life to live, Nor all of death to die.
Page 71 - For nature then (The coarser pleasures of my boyish days, And their glad animal movements all gone by) To me was all in all. — I cannot paint What then I was. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion : the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite ; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye.
Page 76 - The stars of midnight shall be dear To her; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face.
Page 510 - Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence : Here we may reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in hell : Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven.
Page 31 - In the same pious confidence, beside her friend and sister, here sleep the remains of Dorothy Gray, widow, the careful, tender mother of many children, one of whom alone had the misfortune to survive her.
Page 220 - But to her heart, her heart was voluble, Paining with eloquence her balmy side; As though a tongueless nightingale should swell Her throat in vain, and die, heart-stifled, in her dell.