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... mind can broach no fantasy So vile , so high , so airy , so profound , That is not fathered by Philosophy . " * " that there " I do not deny , " says Lord Bacon , may be contained in the fable of Prometheus several intimations that have ...
... mind can broach no fantasy So vile , so high , so airy , so profound , That is not fathered by Philosophy . " * " that there " I do not deny , " says Lord Bacon , may be contained in the fable of Prometheus several intimations that have ...
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... mind of freedom remains unconquer- able . The character of Lilis is a sketch ; but surely one natural , and necessary : she stands like a ray of contrasting light - breaking in between - falling on vividly for a moment - then sunk and ...
... mind of freedom remains unconquer- able . The character of Lilis is a sketch ; but surely one natural , and necessary : she stands like a ray of contrasting light - breaking in between - falling on vividly for a moment - then sunk and ...
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... mind feels and knows itself to be [ a knowledge drawn more from its innate con- sciousness than from any modes of ... mind . The Drama lay by me in its finished state many years ; during which interval , my visit to the South opened ...
... mind feels and knows itself to be [ a knowledge drawn more from its innate con- sciousness than from any modes of ... mind . The Drama lay by me in its finished state many years ; during which interval , my visit to the South opened ...
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... mind of man satisfied with his more material records ? — poems so little known beyond the few , that they may almost be termed the advertisements of unpublished works . I therefore record them here , as having been , and to be , I trust ...
... mind of man satisfied with his more material records ? — poems so little known beyond the few , that they may almost be termed the advertisements of unpublished works . I therefore record them here , as having been , and to be , I trust ...
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... mind by the German school , is , however , anything but original . I mention this the more , as his doctrine has been much alluded to by Thomas Carlyle , a writer who will rank among the very first of his age when he has leisure to ...
... mind by the German school , is , however , anything but original . I mention this the more , as his doctrine has been much alluded to by Thomas Carlyle , a writer who will rank among the very first of his age when he has leisure to ...
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A Record of the Pyramids: A Drama, in Ten Scenes (Classic Reprint) John Edmund Reade Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2018 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
altar Amasis BABYLONIAN bear beautiful Behold beneath blessed breath brother brow brute Cambyses CATILINE chains CHIEF HIEROPHANT CHIEF PREFECT crown crushed dared death deeds descend divinity Dost thou doth Drama dwell earth Egypt EGYPTIAN embruted EPIMETHEUS eternal eyes falchion fear feel fellow-men felt fire flame forgot freedom gathered glory gods guard hands hath hear heard heart heaven Herodotus honour hope human immortal infinite inspiration ITALY JOHN EDMUND READE justice king labour lake Liberty LILIS living look mankind MEMPHIAN Memphis mighty heart mind moral Moris MULTITUDE Nature never Nile NOTE NUBIAN o'er Osiris passion pediment PHOENICIAN Plato Poem poet Poland priests PROMETHEUS Pyramids ratified records rise round ruins SCENE SEGED shew slavery slaves soul spirit stand strength sublime temple Thebes thee thine thou art thou dost thou hast thought throne triumph truth tyranny tyrants voice Voices of prophecy worship
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 83 - It were all one That I should love a bright particular star, And think to wed it, he is so above me: In his bright radiance and collateral light Must I be comforted, not in hia sphere.
Seite 41 - Heaven doth with us as we with torches do; Not light them for themselves; for, if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike
Seite 95 - of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron. Can be retentive to the strength of spirit!" ' I am fire and air; my other element* I give to baser life.
Seite 7 - It is the mind that makes the body rich ; And, as the sun breaks through the darkest cloud, So honour peereth in the meanest habit.
Seite xvii - GOD hath made all things beautiful in their seasons ; also, He hath placed the world in man's heart: yet cannot man find out the work which GOD worketh from the beginning to the end.
Seite 29 - Wilt thou draw near the nature of the gods ? Draw near them, then, in being merciful; Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge
Seite 95 - my duty, An doth a rock against the chiding flood, Should the approach of this wild river break, And stand unshaken yours
Seite xxi - If I am traduced by tongues which neither know My faculties nor person, yet will be The chronicles of my doing.
Seite 115 - The land we were now in had anciently been cultivated, as there appeared many stumps of palm and other trees nearly petrified. I also observed the vine in great plenty. The scene here was beautiful; the silence of the night, the beams of the radiant moon shining on the still
Seite 111 - using, as vehicles, every species of terrestrial, winged, and aquatic animals, it finally enters, a second time, into the human body. They affirm that it undergoes all these changes in the space of three thousand