The British Essayists: With Prefaces, Historical and Biographical, Band 13

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Little, Brown, 1856

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Seite 228 - To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart, To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold...
Seite 330 - Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let there be rain, upon you, nor fields of offerings : for there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil.
Seite 247 - Excellent wretch ! Perdition catch my soul, But I do love thee ! and when I love thee not Chaos is come again.
Seite 330 - The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places : how are the mighty fallen ! Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon ; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
Seite 229 - A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state!
Seite 265 - Me gentle Delia beckons from the plain, Then hid in shades, eludes her eager swain ; But feigns a laugh, to see me search around, And by that laugh the willing fair is found.
Seite 228 - In pitying love we but our weakness show, And wild ambition well deserves its woe.
Seite 331 - I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.
Seite 82 - Of those still that deserve it least ; It matters not how false or forc'd, So the best things be said o...
Seite 170 - And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the Scriptures?

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