Prose, Band 1Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1824 |
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Seite xi
... fear may be no great recommendation ; and yet it cannot be quite unavailing , since that which is genuine , however humble in its kind , will not be entirely unwelcome where it encounters human sympathy . THE READER AND THIS BOOK . xi.
... fear may be no great recommendation ; and yet it cannot be quite unavailing , since that which is genuine , however humble in its kind , will not be entirely unwelcome where it encounters human sympathy . THE READER AND THIS BOOK . xi.
Seite 42
... kind and conde- scending to me ; and from his sage lessons I learned as much of the works of nature and art , of the actions of animals human and brute , of ethics and English grammar , as you might suppose a violet of tolerable parts ...
... kind and conde- scending to me ; and from his sage lessons I learned as much of the works of nature and art , of the actions of animals human and brute , of ethics and English grammar , as you might suppose a violet of tolerable parts ...
Seite 52
... kind of compassionate con- tempt . Down from a branch of the oak , that moment , fell a great sprawling spider full on my bosom , where he lay wriggling on his back , five seconds I am sure , -an age of misery to me - before he could ...
... kind of compassionate con- tempt . Down from a branch of the oak , that moment , fell a great sprawling spider full on my bosom , where he lay wriggling on his back , five seconds I am sure , -an age of misery to me - before he could ...
Seite 62
... kind of crime . How comes it that the walks of infamy in the first instance , and the receptacles of culprits in the second , are supplied with so incessant an influx of new and miserable transgressors , since from the very character of ...
... kind of crime . How comes it that the walks of infamy in the first instance , and the receptacles of culprits in the second , are supplied with so incessant an influx of new and miserable transgressors , since from the very character of ...
Seite 67
... kind is not peculiar to populous cities or manu- facturing districts , but may sometimes be found in the last places where a poet , at least , would think of looking for it . Hannah ***** was only sixteen years of age when she committed ...
... kind is not peculiar to populous cities or manu- facturing districts , but may sometimes be found in the last places where a poet , at least , would think of looking for it . Hannah ***** was only sixteen years of age when she committed ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 36 - But man dieth, and wasteth away ; yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he ? As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up : so man lieth down, and riseth not ; till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.
Seite 186 - MADE a posy, while the day ran by : Here will I smell my remnant out, and tie My life within this band. But Time did beckon to the flowers, and they By noon most cunningly did steal away, And wither'd in my hand. My hand was next to them, and then my heart ; I took, without more thinking, in good part Time's gentle admonition ; Who did so sweetly death's sad taste convey, Making my mind to smell my fatal day, Yet sugaring the suspicion.
Seite 76 - Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion? Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?
Seite 157 - Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.
Seite 35 - And Adam said, This is now bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh : she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of man. "Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife ; and they shall be one flesh.
Seite 98 - Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty ! In wisdom hast thou made them all...
Seite 94 - Still, however, she preserved her humility and shamefacedness, till her crescent had exceeded the first quarter. Hitherto she had only grown lovelier, but now she grew prouder at every step of her preferment. Her rays, too, became so intolerably dazzling, that fewer and fewer of the stars could endure their presence, but shrouded themselves in her light as behind a veil of darkness.
Seite 87 - ... exuberance of vegetation, and prepared by the diversity of land and water, for the. abode of uncreated animals and man, — a star, single and beautiful, stepped forth into the firmament. Trembling with wonder and delight in new-found existence, she looked abroad, and beheld nothing, in heaven...
Seite 166 - It shows them how to steer to the East', and the West', to the North', and the South.
Seite 95 - Never had the stars been more impatient to resume their places, nor the moon more impatient to rise than on the following evening. With trembling hope and fear, the planets that came out first after sunset espied her disk, broad and dark red, emerging from a gulf of clouds in the east. At the first glance, their keen celestial sight discovered that her western limb was a little contracted, and her orb no longer perfect. She herself was too much elated to suspect any failing, and fondly imagined...