Private Life; Or, Varieties of Character and Opinion, Band 1

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T. Cadell, 1835
 

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Seite 30 - The stately homes of England, How beautiful they stand, Amidst their tall ancestral trees, O'er all the pleasant land! The deer across their greensward bound, Through shade and sunny gleam; And the swan glides past them with the sound Of some rejoicing stream.
Seite 281 - Each passing hour sheds tribute from her wings, And still new beauties meet his lonely walk, And loves unfelt attract him. Not a breeze Flies o'er the meadow ; not a cloud imbibes The setting sun's effulgence ; not a strain From all the tenants of the warbling shade Ascends, but whence his bosom can partake Fresh pleasure unreproved.
Seite 178 - From Heaven descends The flame of genius to the human breast, And love, and beauty, and poetic joy, And inspiration." " This, nor gems, nor stores of gold, Nor purple state, nor culture, can bestow, But God alone, when first his mighty hand Imprints the secret bias of the
Seite 188 - poet's view of the subject is more accurate than yours, — ' Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear :'— The
Seite 320 - To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly dark, The moving why they do it; And just as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. " Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us; He knows each chord, its various tone, Each spring, its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it; What's
Seite 227 - all he spoke. He preach'd the joys of heaven, and pains of hell, And warn'd the sinner with becoming zeal, But on eternal mercy loved to dwell: He taught the Gospel rather than the Law, And forced himself to drive, but loved to draw
Seite 114 - Enlarged by thee, She springs aloft, with elevated pride, Above the tangling mass of low desires, That bind the fluttering crowd; and, angel-wing'd, The heights of science and of virtue gains, Where all is calm and clear ; — And hither fancy sent her kindest dreams, Raising a world of gayer
Seite 241 - The conclusions of the most powerful minds are all on my side of the question," observed Frances. " ' Human life is a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed,
Seite 292 - imagination had invested him with certain disagreeable qualities, and she described him, in the words of Shakspeare, to be — " The best persuaded of himself, so crammed, as he thinks, with excellences, that it is his ground of faith, that all that look on him love him.
Seite 210 - But sedentary weavers of long tales Give me the fidgets, and my patience fails." COWPER. BREAKFAST was scarcely over the next morning at the Priory, when the cheerful tone of a voice in the hall proclaimed the approach of

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