Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Band 3Carey and Hart, 1842 |
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... means unlike that extraordinary pedestrian who has been accompanying us for the last half hour , far overhead up by yonder , as if he meant mischief ; but he will find that we are up to a trick or two , and not easily to be done brown ...
... means unlike that extraordinary pedestrian who has been accompanying us for the last half hour , far overhead up by yonder , as if he meant mischief ; but he will find that we are up to a trick or two , and not easily to be done brown ...
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... means new , and destructive of the thought of absorption . In the third stanza there is nothing about either absorp- tion or wings , but after some ugly raving , we are pre- sented with that very intelligible line , " When elements to ...
... means new , and destructive of the thought of absorption . In the third stanza there is nothing about either absorp- tion or wings , but after some ugly raving , we are pre- sented with that very intelligible line , " When elements to ...
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John Wilson. gination , and thousands of creatures perish— “ man ” here means men — if not , how unimpassioned the tale of his doom - but " a drop of rain ” —one single drop was never yet seen by itself sinking into the depths of the sea ...
John Wilson. gination , and thousands of creatures perish— “ man ” here means men — if not , how unimpassioned the tale of his doom - but " a drop of rain ” —one single drop was never yet seen by itself sinking into the depths of the sea ...
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... means " his steps are not upon thy paths ? " We fear it must be taken literally , and , in that case , it is poor stuff . Figuratively it is not true ; for " his steps are upon thy paths , " while " ten thousand fleets sweep over thee ...
... means " his steps are not upon thy paths ? " We fear it must be taken literally , and , in that case , it is poor stuff . Figuratively it is not true ; for " his steps are upon thy paths , " while " ten thousand fleets sweep over thee ...
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... out of the mind every thing that is an actual obstruction to the belief - obtain perfect suspense - and let then the arguments weigh . Surely , if morality means any thing , it is much to say in favour CHRISTOPHER AMONG THE MOUNTAINS . 63.
... out of the mind every thing that is an actual obstruction to the belief - obtain perfect suspense - and let then the arguments weigh . Surely , if morality means any thing , it is much to say in favour CHRISTOPHER AMONG THE MOUNTAINS . 63.
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 49 - Invisible ; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made ; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Seite 341 - OFT, in the stilly night, Ere Slumber's chain has bound me, Fond Memory brings the light Of other days around me ; The smiles, the tears, Of boyhood's years, The words of love then spoken ; The eyes that shone, Now dimm'd and gone, The cheerful hearts now broken ! Thus, in the stilly night...
Seite 45 - What then I was. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion: the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite; a feeling and a love...
Seite 48 - Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since; their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts: — not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play — Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow — Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest noW.
Seite 45 - For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity, Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue.
Seite 44 - But oft, in lonely rooms, and 'mid the din Of towns and cities, I have owed to them In hours of weariness, sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart; And passing even into my purer mind...
Seite 43 - The sky is changed ! — and such a change ! Oh ! night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong ; Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman ! Far along From peak to peak the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder ! Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue, And Jura answers through her misty shroud, Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud ! And this is in the night.
Seite 334 - THERE is not in the wide world a valley so sweet As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet ;' Oh ! the last rays of feeling and life must depart, Ere the bloom of that valley shall fade from my heart.
Seite 335 - No, the heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close ; As the sun-flower turns on her god, when he sets, The same look which she turned when he rose.
Seite 46 - Therefore am I still A lover of the meadows and the woods, And mountains; and of all that we behold From this green earth; of all the mighty world Of eye and ear, both what they half create, And what perceive; well pleased to recognise In nature and the language of the sense, The anchor of my purest thoughts, the nurse, The guide, the guardian of my heart, and soul Of all my moral being.