Critical and Miscellaneous Writings of T. Noon Talfourd: Author of "Ion."D. Appleton & Company, 1864 - 176 Seiten |
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... reason we have passed which softens and consecrates all things . over the works of the latter in our present cur- Forest , where the marquis , who has long sought to make the heroine the victim of licen tious love , after working on her ...
... reason we have passed which softens and consecrates all things . over the works of the latter in our present cur- Forest , where the marquis , who has long sought to make the heroine the victim of licen tious love , after working on her ...
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... reason . Riches , honours , power , are transitory - the things which appear , pass away - the shadows of life alone are stable and unchanging . Of the re- collections of infancy nothing can deprive us . Love endures , even if its ...
... reason . Riches , honours , power , are transitory - the things which appear , pass away - the shadows of life alone are stable and unchanging . Of the re- collections of infancy nothing can deprive us . Love endures , even if its ...
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... reason to mourn for her the floating clouds have lent to her something than for the departed ! Equal in terrific power , of their grace ; she has contemplated the rocks is the view given us of the last confession and till her soul is ...
... reason to mourn for her the floating clouds have lent to her something than for the departed ! Equal in terrific power , of their grace ; she has contemplated the rocks is the view given us of the last confession and till her soul is ...
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... reason , which is divided from insanity only by " a thin partition , " and which , uncontrolled by sterner powers , forms the essence of madness . They think it abounds in speeches crowded with tawdry and It is easy to perceive how it ...
... reason , which is divided from insanity only by " a thin partition , " and which , uncontrolled by sterner powers , forms the essence of madness . They think it abounds in speeches crowded with tawdry and It is easy to perceive how it ...
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... reason , not in its results , but in its process ; it does not demonstrate truth only because it sees it . There are vast and eternal realities in our nature , which reason proves to exist which sensibility " feels after and finds ...
... reason , not in its results , but in its process ; it does not demonstrate truth only because it sees it . There are vast and eternal realities in our nature , which reason proves to exist which sensibility " feels after and finds ...
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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...