Essays from the London Times: A Collection of Personal and Historical Sketches, Том 2D. Appleton, 1852 - 301 стор. |
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... dark cloud , and success had yet to be achieved . In that year the barrister writes home that " it distresses him more than he can express to ask again for assist- ance , " and that he is content , if his father so wills it , " to give ...
... dark cloud , and success had yet to be achieved . In that year the barrister writes home that " it distresses him more than he can express to ask again for assist- ance , " and that he is content , if his father so wills it , " to give ...
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... darkness beautiful with thee . " Very sweet and plaintive these verses are ; but who would not give them a feminine application ? Shak- speare may be considered the founder of this style in English . In classical and Oriental poetry it ...
... darkness beautiful with thee . " Very sweet and plaintive these verses are ; but who would not give them a feminine application ? Shak- speare may be considered the founder of this style in English . In classical and Oriental poetry it ...
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... reading Milton is the Lichfield story over again . There is a grace , a delicacy , a fragrance , and a light of sentiment and image which are altogether dark to the crowd , We will offer two examples . Cowper , in one.
... reading Milton is the Lichfield story over again . There is a grace , a delicacy , a fragrance , and a light of sentiment and image which are altogether dark to the crowd , We will offer two examples . Cowper , in one.
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... darkness whom we guess ; " I found Him not in world or sun , Or eagle's wing , or insect's eye ; Nor thro ' the questions men may try The petty cobwebs we have spun : " If e'er , when faith had fall'n asleep , I heard a voice ...
... darkness whom we guess ; " I found Him not in world or sun , Or eagle's wing , or insect's eye ; Nor thro ' the questions men may try The petty cobwebs we have spun : " If e'er , when faith had fall'n asleep , I heard a voice ...
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... dark evening with a lantern , and gropes about the brick wall until he finds the bell . Just look at the circumstance as Jones might relate it to a young lady in the suburbs " I got into the Kennington omnibus yesterday , and in the ...
... dark evening with a lantern , and gropes about the brick wall until he finds the bell . Just look at the circumstance as Jones might relate it to a young lady in the suburbs " I got into the Kennington omnibus yesterday , and in the ...
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Сторінка 125 - A perfect Woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of angelic light.
Сторінка 45 - If it were fill'd with your most high deserts ? Though yet, heaven knows, it is but as a tomb Which hides your life and shows not half your parts. If I could write the beauty of your eyes And in fresh numbers number all your graces, The age to come would say ' This poet lies ; Such heavenly touches ne'er touch'd earthly faces.
Сторінка 49 - Nor thro' the questions men may try, The petty cobwebs we have spun : If e'er when faith had fall'n asleep, I heard a voice, "Believe no more," And heard an ever-breaking shore That tumbled in the godless deep; A warmth within the breast would melt The freezing reason's colder part, And like a man in wrath the heart Stood up and answer'd, "I have felt.
Сторінка 44 - Practiser in Physic.) Condemned to Hope's delusive mine, As on we toil from day to day, By sudden blasts, or slow decline, Our social comforts drop away. Well...
Сторінка 94 - We have, however, a plain precept to follow, which is, to do our duty in that state of life to which it has pleased God to call us.
Сторінка 50 - Or that the past will always win A glory from its being far, And orb into the perfect star We saw not when we moved therein?
Сторінка 45 - As sometimes in a dead man's face, To those that watch it more and more, A likeness, hardly seen before, Comes out— to some one of his race: So, dearest, now thy brows are cold, I see thee what thou art, and know Thy likeness to the wise below, Thy kindred with the great of old.
Сторінка 51 - THAT each, who seems a separate whole, Should move his rounds, and fusing all The skirts of self again, should fall Remerging in the general Soul, Is faith as vague as all unsweet: Eternal form shall still divide The eternal soul from all beside; And I shall know him when we meet...
Сторінка 55 - I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope through darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope.
Сторінка 94 - Coleridge sat on the brow of Highgate Hill in those years looking down on London and its smoke tumult like a sage escaped from the inanity of life's battle, attracting towards him the thoughts of innumerable brave souls still engaged there. His express contributions to poetry, philosophy, or any specific province of human literature or enlightenment had been small and sadly...