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... original " Trial of Eugene Aram , " well known in English literature as the hero of one of Bulwer's most popular novels , and one of Hood's most finished poems , and for as wonderful a thing as either , his own remark- able defence . I ...
... original " Trial of Eugene Aram , " well known in English literature as the hero of one of Bulwer's most popular novels , and one of Hood's most finished poems , and for as wonderful a thing as either , his own remark- able defence . I ...
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... original specimens of the trilobite family , of which , in other museums , even the British , one finds but the casts . Nor can anything be more beautiful than its groups of delicately relieved crinoidea of all the different Silurian ...
... original specimens of the trilobite family , of which , in other museums , even the British , one finds but the casts . Nor can anything be more beautiful than its groups of delicately relieved crinoidea of all the different Silurian ...
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... original author , and , of course , the in- cendiary . But though every boy and girl in Dudley has learned to add the missing portion , no one seems to know who the indi- vidual was who supplied it first . " Water went round it , to ...
... original author , and , of course , the in- cendiary . But though every boy and girl in Dudley has learned to add the missing portion , no one seems to know who the indi- vidual was who supplied it first . " Water went round it , to ...
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... original habitat , gave increased effect to their appeals to the imagination . The green ocean depths in which they must have lived and died associate strangely in the mind with the forest retreats , a full hundred miles from the sea ...
... original habitat , gave increased effect to their appeals to the imagination . The green ocean depths in which they must have lived and died associate strangely in the mind with the forest retreats , a full hundred miles from the sea ...
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... original . I quote , with the description , the preliminary lines so vividly suggestive of the short - lived happiness of Lyttelton : " Perhaps thy loved Lucinda shares thy walk , With soul to thine attuned . Then Nature all Wears to ...
... original . I quote , with the description , the preliminary lines so vividly suggestive of the short - lived happiness of Lyttelton : " Perhaps thy loved Lucinda shares thy walk , With soul to thine attuned . Then Nature all Wears to ...
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Page 292 - And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi. And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.
Page 260 - So strong the zeal to immortalize himself Beats in the breast of man, that e'en a few, Few transient years, won from th' abyss abhorr'd Of blank oblivion, seem a glorious prize, And even to a clown. Now roves the eye ; And, posted on this speculative height, Exults in its command. The sheepfold here Pours out its fleecy tenants o'er the glebe.
Page 325 - Tis a note of enchantment ; what ails her ? She sees A mountain ascending, a vision of trees ; Bright volumes of vapour through Lothbury glide, And a river flows on through the vale of Cheapside.
Page 36 - SWEET stream, that winds through yonder glade, Apt emblem of a virtuous maid — Silent and chaste she steals along, Far from the world's gay busy throng ; • With gentle yet prevailing force, Intent upon her destined course ; Graceful and useful all she does, Blessing and blest where'er she goes. Pure-bosom'd as that watery glass, And heaven reflected in her face.
Page 96 - Invested with a keen diffusive sky. Breathing the soul acute : her forests huge, Incult, robust, and tall, by Nature's hand Planted of old ; her azure lakes between...
Page 9 - Man disobeying, Disloyal, breaks his fealty, and sins Against the high supremacy of Heaven, Affecting God-head, and, so losing all, To expiate his treason hath nought left, But to destruction sacred and devote, He, with his whole posterity, must die, Die he or justice must; unless for him Some other able, and as willing, pay The rigid satisfaction, death for death.
Page 106 - Her speech was the melodious voice of Love, Her song the warbling of the vernal grove ; Her eloquence was sweeter than her song, Soft as her heart, and as her reason strong; Her form each beauty of her mind express'd, Her mind was Virtue by the Graces dress'd.
Page 127 - He learned to read of an old dame, whom his poem of the Schoolmistress has delivered to posterity; and soon received such delight from books, that he was always calling for fresh entertainment, and expected that when any of the family went to market a new book should be brought him, which when it came, was in fondness carried to bed and laid by him. It is said, that when his request had been neglected...
Page 88 - The whole creation round. Contentment walks The sunny glade, and feels an inward bliss Spring o'er his mind, beyond the power of kings To purchase. Pure serenity apace Induces thought and contemplation still. By swift degrees the love of Nature works, And warms the bosom ; till at last, sublimed To rapture and enthusiastic heat, We feel the present Deity, and taste The joy of GOD to see a happy world...
Page 21 - Looking tranquillity ! It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chilness to my trembling heart.