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To shew this spirit manifesting it It has been said by a great poet , self in its
powerful operations during “ The present and the past , the modern civilization of
Europe , Upon whose wings harınoniously conjoined , will be a work for the
historian ...
To shew this spirit manifesting it It has been said by a great poet , self in its
powerful operations during “ The present and the past , the modern civilization of
Europe , Upon whose wings harınoniously conjoined , will be a work for the
historian ...
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The most any hope of ultimate success . This certain way to derive no benefit
from the flaine shone , indeed , once again in St study of history , is to engage in it
with a Lewis , but that was only a flash in the spirit of hostility . If we despise our ...
The most any hope of ultimate success . This certain way to derive no benefit
from the flaine shone , indeed , once again in St study of history , is to engage in it
with a Lewis , but that was only a flash in the spirit of hostility . If we despise our ...
Page 304
The true chivalrous spirits afford to those whose workings spirit exerted by far its
most exclusive we witness in times of greater pru- power over the Normans ,
whose spirit dence and refinement , when statesmen and manners were at this ...
The true chivalrous spirits afford to those whose workings spirit exerted by far its
most exclusive we witness in times of greater pru- power over the Normans ,
whose spirit dence and refinement , when statesmen and manners were at this ...
Page 685
The must be bad indeed , which shall not master spirits of every age have tow-
appear to them tolerable in the comered above the seductions of scepti- parison .
In the rashness and obsticism ; firm in the purity and stability nacy of their spirit of
...
The must be bad indeed , which shall not master spirits of every age have tow-
appear to them tolerable in the comered above the seductions of scepti- parison .
In the rashness and obsticism ; firm in the purity and stability nacy of their spirit of
...
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... captious spirit , is in the strength and endowment or at least contrast of its
language , when speakas men whom he is entitled to rate ing of the living and of
the dead . It soundly whenever they have the teme- would seem beneath its
dignity to ...
... captious spirit , is in the strength and endowment or at least contrast of its
language , when speakas men whom he is entitled to rate ing of the living and of
the dead . It soundly whenever they have the teme- would seem beneath its
dignity to ...
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Page 54 - On the demise of a person of eminence, it is confidently averred that he had a hand "open as day to melting charity," and that "take him for all in all, we ne'er shall look upon his like again.
Page 259 - WHEN Ruth was left half desolate, Her Father took another Mate ; And Ruth, not seven years old, A slighted child, at her own will Went wandering over dale and hill, In thoughtless freedom, bold. And she had made a pipe of straw, And music from that pipe could draw Like sounds of winds and floods ; Had built a bower upon the green, As if she from her birth had been An infant of the woods.
Page 258 - My Friend! enough to sorrow you have given, The purposes of wisdom ask no more ; Be wise and chearful ; and no longer read The forms of things with an unworthy eye. She sleeps in the calm earth, and peace is here.
Page 261 - That oaten pipe of hers is mute, Or thrown away; but with a flute Her loneliness she cheers: This flute, made of a hemlock stalk, At evening in his homeward walk The Quantock woodman hears.
Page 215 - COME, gentle Spring, ethereal mildness, come ; And from the bosom of yon dropping cloud, While music wakes around, veiled in a shower ' Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend.
Page 144 - My constant reflections on the inconvenient, or rather injurious rites, introduced by the peculiar practice of Hindoo idolatry, which, more than any other pagan worship, destroys the texture of society, together with compassion for my countrymen, have compelled me to use every possible effort to awaken them from their dream of error: and by making them acquainted with their scriptures, enable them to contemplate with true devotion the unity and omnipresence of Nature's God..
Page 148 - I had thought myself in an ancient castle (a very natural dream for a head filled like mine with Gothic story) and that on the uppermost bannister of a great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armour.
Page 160 - Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam The pilot of some small night-founder'd skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Page 149 - I completed in less than two months, that one evening I wrote from the time I had drunk my tea, about six o'clock, till half an hour after one in the morning, when my hand and fingers were so weary, that I could not hold the pen to finish the sentence, but left Matilda and Isabella talking, in the middle of a paragraph.
Page 259 - Cased in the unfeeling armour of old time, The lightning, the fierce wind, and trampling waves. Farewell, farewell, the heart that lives alone, Housed in a dream, at distance from the kind ! Such happiness, wherever it be known, Is to be pitied ; for 'tis surely blind. But welcome fortitude, and patient cheer, And frequent sights of what is to be borne ! Such sights, or worse, as are before me here. — Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.