The Poetry of Life, Band 2Carey, Lea, and Blanchard, 1835 |
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... object , is a fact which at once gives it impor- tance , dignity , and refinement . Importance because of its prevalence amongst mankind ; dignity , because whatever raises the tone of moral feeling , and disposes towards kindly ...
... object , is a fact which at once gives it impor- tance , dignity , and refinement . Importance because of its prevalence amongst mankind ; dignity , because whatever raises the tone of moral feeling , and disposes towards kindly ...
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... object , which impels to the most extraordinary acts of disinterestedness and devotion . I grant that after love has once taken possession of the heart , it becomes a sort of instinct , and can then maintain an existence too miserable ...
... object , which impels to the most extraordinary acts of disinterestedness and devotion . I grant that after love has once taken possession of the heart , it becomes a sort of instinct , and can then maintain an existence too miserable ...
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... object , degraded below the possession of dignity or virtue , where then can be the admiration ? I answer , that in such cases the mind that loves must be degraded too , and consequently it is subject to call evil good , and may thus ...
... object , degraded below the possession of dignity or virtue , where then can be the admiration ? I answer , that in such cases the mind that loves must be degraded too , and consequently it is subject to call evil good , and may thus ...
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... object beloved , the admiration of others . We long for others to behold them with our eyes , that they may participate in our feelings , and do what we consider justice to the idols of our imagination ; and though this can seldom be ...
... object beloved , the admiration of others . We long for others to behold them with our eyes , that they may participate in our feelings , and do what we consider justice to the idols of our imagination ; and though this can seldom be ...
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... object of our regard , than it assumes a new life , and all that was dear before , be- comes doubly valuable beneath ... objects of our most devoted affection . The power which love possesses of enhancing our enjoyments , is of itself ...
... object of our regard , than it assumes a new life , and all that was dear before , be- comes doubly valuable beneath ... objects of our most devoted affection . The power which love possesses of enhancing our enjoyments , is of itself ...
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admiration affections amongst Ariel arise Balaam beauty behold beneath blessed Book of Job capable character charm cherub children of Israel children of men choly colouring connected dark death deep diffused Divine earth earthly enjoyment eternal evil existence faculty faithful familiar spirit feeling genius glory grief hand happiness harmony hast hath heart heaven hope human ideas imagination important impressions impulse influence instance intellectual Israel Jephthah language less light listen look Lord Lord Byron majesty mankind Mark Antony melan melancholy melody mental mind Moab moral mountains nature ness never object OTLEY pain passions peculiar perceptions Philistines pity pleasure poet poetical poetry principles PROSPERO pure racter refined religion Samuel Saul Sisera smile soul speak sphere spirit stars sublime suffering sweet taste tears tender thee thine things thou thoughts tion truth uncon unto voice wings woman wonder words writer
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Seite 140 - Entreat me not to leave thee, Or to return from following after thee ; For whither thou goest, I will go ; And where thou lodgest, I will lodge ; Thy people shall be my people, And thy God, my God ; Where thou diest, will I die, And there will I be buried ; The Lord do so to me, And more also, If aught but death part thee and me.
Seite 271 - And chiefly Thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for Thou know'st ; Thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread Dovelike satst brooding on the vast abyss, And madest it pregnant: What in me is dark, Illumine; what is low, raise and support...
Seite 267 - He, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower. His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than Archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured...
Seite 130 - And Cain talked with Abel his brother : and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.
Seite 160 - There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun, who rideth upon the heaven in thy help, and in his excellency on the sky. The eternal God is thy refuge; and underneath are the everlasting arms; and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee, and shall, say, Destroy them.
Seite 159 - When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
Seite 277 - I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her siren daughters...
Seite 270 - Heaven thou wert ; and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite.
Seite 153 - And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.
Seite 158 - Who is like unto thee, O Lord, among the Gods? who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?