Critical and Miscellaneous Writings of T. Noon Talfourd: Author of "Ion."D. Appleton & Company, 1864 - 176 Seiten |
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... hope turns of their path in which lovely prospects vanish . It binds the veteran to the child by broke in upon them ; some soft plats of green ties which no fluctuations even of belief can refreshing to their weary feet . Confiding love ...
... hope turns of their path in which lovely prospects vanish . It binds the veteran to the child by broke in upon them ; some soft plats of green ties which no fluctuations even of belief can refreshing to their weary feet . Confiding love ...
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... hope shall be chilled for ever . While other works are ex- tolled , admired , and reviewed , these will be loved and wept over . Their author , in the evening of his days , may truly feel that he has not lived in vain . Gentle hearts ...
... hope shall be chilled for ever . While other works are ex- tolled , admired , and reviewed , these will be loved and wept over . Their author , in the evening of his days , may truly feel that he has not lived in vain . Gentle hearts ...
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... hope and joy " -in much of its specu- lative extravagance , but in none of its practi- cal excesses . He was roused not into action but into thought ; and the high and undying energies of his soul , unwasted on vain efforts for the ...
... hope and joy " -in much of its specu- lative extravagance , but in none of its practi- cal excesses . He was roused not into action but into thought ; and the high and undying energies of his soul , unwasted on vain efforts for the ...
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... hope that these shall pass away for ever . We drink in unshaken confi- dence the good and the true , which is ever of more value than hatred or contempt for the evil ! " Caleb Williams , " the earliest , is also the most popular of our ...
... hope that these shall pass away for ever . We drink in unshaken confi- dence the good and the true , which is ever of more value than hatred or contempt for the evil ! " Caleb Williams , " the earliest , is also the most popular of our ...
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... hope for humanity which ex- sufficiently proves the falsehood of his adver- cited Mr. Malthus to affirm , that there is in the sary's doctrines by his own intellectual charac- constitution of man's nature a perpetual barrier ter . His ...
... hope for humanity which ex- sufficiently proves the falsehood of his adver- cited Mr. Malthus to affirm , that there is in the sary's doctrines by his own intellectual charac- constitution of man's nature a perpetual barrier ter . His ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 155 - 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.
Seite 55 - Hence in a season of calm weather Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.
Seite 56 - The floating clouds their state shall lend To her; for her the willow bend; » Nor shall she fail to see Even in the motions of the storm Grace that shall mould the maiden's form By silent sympathy.
Seite 55 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing; Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence: truths that wake, To perish never...
Seite 155 - Where joy for ever dwells ; hail horrors, hail Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell Receive thy new possessor ; one who brings A mind not to be changed by place, or time.
Seite 12 - 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, or any interest Unborrowed from the eye.
Seite 155 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost — the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield : And what is else not to be overcome.
Seite 56 - THREE years she grew in sun and shower; Then Nature said, "A lovelier flower On earth was never sown ; This Child I to myself will take; She shall be mine, and I will make A Lady of my own. "Myself will to my darling be Both law and impulse : and with me The Girl, in rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, Shall feel an overseeing power To kindle or restrain.
Seite 56 - Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears, To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
Seite 154 - Of depth immeasurable; anon they move In perfect phalanx to the Dorian mood Of flutes and soft recorders; such as raised To height of noblest temper heroes old Arming to battle, and instead of rage, Deliberate valour breathed, firm and unmoved With dread of death to flight or foul retreat...