The Life and Times of Hugh MillerRudd & Carleton, 1859 - 346 Seiten |
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... humanity or the aberrations of genius , displays no amiable feeling ; and his must ever be a thankless task who seeks to break the spell by nature bound around the voiceless dead . Yet without gloating over , while in point of fact ...
... humanity or the aberrations of genius , displays no amiable feeling ; and his must ever be a thankless task who seeks to break the spell by nature bound around the voiceless dead . Yet without gloating over , while in point of fact ...
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... human heart ; and unless we shut our eyes to facts , there is no denying that black and polluting passions were often the tenants of the breast which poured forth the address to the mountain daisy , and that the bosom which heaved with ...
... human heart ; and unless we shut our eyes to facts , there is no denying that black and polluting passions were often the tenants of the breast which poured forth the address to the mountain daisy , and that the bosom which heaved with ...
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... human streams from which the Cromarty stone - mason sprang . In fashionable and aristocratic biographies , one often meets some statement like the following ; meant , no doubt , to overawe the plebeian mind , and gratify the pride of ...
... human streams from which the Cromarty stone - mason sprang . In fashionable and aristocratic biographies , one often meets some statement like the following ; meant , no doubt , to overawe the plebeian mind , and gratify the pride of ...
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... humanity in the glens of the north by the cry of the curlew and the wail of the plover . Hugh Miller's recollections of excursions into the interior made by him at this early period , lift the veil which , during fifty years now , has ...
... humanity in the glens of the north by the cry of the curlew and the wail of the plover . Hugh Miller's recollections of excursions into the interior made by him at this early period , lift the veil which , during fifty years now , has ...
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... human intellects - are they not enshrined in books ? have they not shed their souls into those types and that printer's ink ? What is the art of printing , but the art of making us familiar with the best thinking of the wisest and the ...
... human intellects - are they not enshrined in books ? have they not shed their souls into those types and that printer's ink ? What is the art of printing , but the art of making us familiar with the best thinking of the wisest and the ...
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Seite 341 - He is gone who seem'd so great. Gone; but nothing can bereave him Of the force he made his own Being here, and we believe him Something far advanced in State, And that he wears a truer crown Than any wreath that man can weave him. Speak no more of his renown, Lay your earthly fancies down, And in the vast cathedral leave him. God accept him, Christ receive him.
Seite 260 - The poor inhabitant below Was quick to learn and wise to know, And keenly felt the friendly glow, And softer flame ; But thoughtless follies laid him low, And stain'd his name ! Reader, attend ! whether thy soul Soars fancy's flights beyond the pole, Or darkling grubs this earthly hole, In low pursuit ; Know, prudent, cautious, self-control Is wisdom's root.
Seite 41 - ... the best laid schemes o' mice and men gang aft agley.
Seite 304 - There is no straw given unto thy servants, and they say to us, Make brick: and, behold, thy servants are beaten; but the fault is in thine own people. But he said, Ye are idle, ye are idle: therefore ye say, Let us go and do sacrifice to the LORD.
Seite 315 - And yet, fair bow, no fabling dreams But words of the Most High, Have told why first thy robe of beams Was woven in the sky.
Seite 302 - ... were a fortification against sweetness of temper, natural affection, and gentle intercourse. There was the resentful Sunday of a little later, when he sat glowering and glooming through the tardy length of the day, with a sullen sense of injury in his heart, and no more real knowledge of the beneficent history of the New Testament, than if he had been bred among idolaters. There was a legion of Sundays, all days of unserviceable bitterness and mortification, slowly passing before him. 'Beg pardon,...
Seite 332 - No more? A monster then, a dream, A discord. Dragons of the prime, That tare each other in their slime. Were mellow music match'd with him. O life as futile, then, as frail! O for thy voice to soothe and bless ! What hope of answer, or redress ? Behind the veil, behind the veil.
Seite 338 - The cause of death we found to be a pistol-shot through the left side of the chest ; and this, we are satisfied, was inflicted by his own hand. ' From the diseased appearances found in the brain, taken in connection with the history of the case, we have no doubt that the act was suicidal under the impulse of insanity.
Seite 121 - Then O, my first, my only love, The kindliest, dearest, best ! On Him may all our hopes repose,— On Him our wishes rest. His be the future's doubtful day, Let joy or grief befall : In life or death, in weal or woe, Our God, our guide, our all.
Seite 298 - Ah! could you but see Bet Bouncer of these parts, you might then talk of beauty. Ecod, she has two eyes as black as sloes, and cheeks as broad and red as a pulpit cushion.