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... seems to the inex- perienced reader a matter of carelessness or laxity in the choice of ex- pression ; and sometimes it may have been so ; but more often it has been done under the secret dictation of powerful courts - making peaces ...
... seems to the inex- perienced reader a matter of carelessness or laxity in the choice of ex- pression ; and sometimes it may have been so ; but more often it has been done under the secret dictation of powerful courts - making peaces ...
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... seem never to have dreamed of , that to use the words of an obscure though very sensible divine , " there are some ... seems to have been anxious to try all themes , in order that his forte should not be left undiscovered for want of ...
... seem never to have dreamed of , that to use the words of an obscure though very sensible divine , " there are some ... seems to have been anxious to try all themes , in order that his forte should not be left undiscovered for want of ...
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... seems to be - a soul to be put upon paper , and trans- muted into literature . But what account is made of the growth of the soul ? The soul and hand - action and meditation are thus abject slaves to the pen , and have ceased to be ...
... seems to be - a soul to be put upon paper , and trans- muted into literature . But what account is made of the growth of the soul ? The soul and hand - action and meditation are thus abject slaves to the pen , and have ceased to be ...
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... seems so great , that no- thing can be taken from us that seems much . All loss , all pain , is parti- cular ; the universe remains to the heart unhurt . Distress never , trifles never , abate our trust . No man ever stated his griefs ...
... seems so great , that no- thing can be taken from us that seems much . All loss , all pain , is parti- cular ; the universe remains to the heart unhurt . Distress never , trifles never , abate our trust . No man ever stated his griefs ...
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... seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its temple , the sun as its candle . " " To go into solitude , a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society . I am not solitary whilst I read and write , though nobody is with ...
... seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its temple , the sun as its candle . " " To go into solitude , a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society . I am not solitary whilst I read and write , though nobody is with ...
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Seite 321 - Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair ; Forest on forest hung about his head Like cloud on cloud. No stir of air was there, Not so much life as on a summer's day Robs not one light seed from the feather'd grass, But where the dead leaf fell, there did it rest.
Seite 322 - Full on this casement shone the wintry moon, And threw warm gules on Madeline's fair breast, As down she knelt for Heaven's grace and boon; Rose-bloom fell on her hands, together prest, And on her silver cross soft amethyst, And on her hair a glory, like a saint...
Seite 320 - Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath...
Seite 45 - ... daily miracle shines, as the character ascends. But the word Miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression ; it is Monster. It is not one with the blowing clover and the falling rain.
Seite 327 - And there were voices and thunders and lightnings ; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake and so great.
Seite 45 - Alone in all history he estimated the greatness of man. One man was true to what is in you and me. He saw that God incarnates himself in man, and evermore goes forth anew to take possession of his World. He said, in this jubilee of sublime emotion, "I am divine. Through me, God acts; through me, speaks. Would you see God, see me; or see thee, when thou also thinkest as I now think.
Seite 325 - Flora and the country green, Dance, and Provencal song, and sunburnt mirth ! O for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth ; That I might drink, and leave the world unseen, And with thee fade away into the forest dim...
Seite 325 - Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget What thou among the leaves hast never known, The weariness, the fever, and the fret...
Seite 164 - Be brave then ; for your captain is brave, and vows reformation. There shall be, in England, seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny : the threehooped pot shall have ten hoops ; and I will make it felony to drink small beer: all the realm shall be in common, and in Cheapside shall my palfrey go to grass.