The Recreations of Christopher North, Band 2D. Appleton, 1864 - 307 Seiten |
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Adam Morrison beauty beneath bird blessed bosom braes breath bright Brown Bess Christian Christopher North cliffs clouds cottage creatures Cruachan daugh dead death delight divine dream eagle earth eyes face fear feel feet felt flowers Furness Fells genius glen Glenlivet Gleno gloom glory grave green Hamish hand happy head hear heard heart heather heaven hills holy hour human imagination light living Loch look moor Moray Place morning mountains nature never night once passion poem poet poetry racter religion round Sabbath Scotland Scottish season seems seen shadow shepherd silent silvan sing sitting sleep smile snow Snowy Owl song soul spirit spring stars strong sublime sugh sunshine sweet tarn tears thee thing thou thought tion trees voice walk whole wild Windermere wings wonder woods words Wordsworth young youth
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Seite 293 - Stern Lawgiver! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace; Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face: Flowers laugh before thee on their beds And fragrance in thy footing treads; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong; And the most ancient heavens, through Thee, are fresh and strong.
Seite 188 - In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call Earth, and, with low-thoughted care.
Seite 161 - The Lord giveth, and the Lord ' taketh away ; blessed be the name of the Lord.
Seite 88 - And sees, on high, amidst th' encircling groves, From cliff to cliff the foaming torrents shine : While waters, woods, and winds, in concert join, And echo swells the chorus to the skies. Would Edwin this majestic scene resign For aught the huntsman's puny craft supplies? Ah! no: he better knows great Nature's charms to prize.
Seite 264 - Seasons" does not contain a single new image of external nature; and scarcely presents a familiar one from which it can be .inferred that the eye of the Poet had been steadily fixed upon his object, much less that his feelings had urged him to work upon it in the spirit of genuine imagination.
Seite 47 - Now Spring returns ; but not to me returns The vernal joy my better years have known ; Dim in my breast life's dying taper burns, And all the joys of life with health are flown.
Seite 258 - Or view the Lord of the unerring bow, The God of life, and poesy, and light The Sun in human limbs arrayed, and brow All radiant from his triumph in the fight; The shaft hath just been shot - the arrow bright With an immortal's vengeance; in his eye And nostril beautiful disdain, and might, And majesty, flash their full lightnings by, Developing in that one glance the Deity.
Seite 189 - Not Chaos, not The darkest pit of lowest Erebus, Nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out By help of dreams — can breed such fear and awe As fall upon us often when we look Into our Minds, into the Mind of Man — My haunt, and the main region of my song.
Seite 186 - ... to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility, to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in right tune; to celebrate in glorious and lofty hymns the throne and equipage of God's almightiness, and what he works, and what he suffers to be wrought with high providence in his church...
Seite 198 - Go and search diligently for the young child; and when ye have found him, bring me word again, that I may come and worship him also. 9 When they had heard the king, they departed; and, lo, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was.