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Peel Club, Glasgow. $ 82-50 P RESENTED IN MEMORY OF ANNIE NELSON BAILEY , 1866-1919 BY HER SON THOMAS A. BAILEY , 24 AND HIS WIFE SYLVIA DEAN BAILEY , TO THE STANFORD UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES THE PEEL CLUB PAPERS FOR SESSION 1839-40 . GLASGOW :
Peel Club, Glasgow. $ 82-50 P RESENTED IN MEMORY OF ANNIE NELSON BAILEY , 1866-1919 BY HER SON THOMAS A. BAILEY , 24 AND HIS WIFE SYLVIA DEAN BAILEY , TO THE STANFORD UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES THE PEEL CLUB PAPERS FOR SESSION 1839-40 . GLASGOW :
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Peel Club, Glasgow. THE PEEL CLUB PAPERS FOR SESSION 1839-40 . GLASGOW : PRINTED BY GEORGE RICHARDSON , AND SOLD BY D. CAMPBELL , BUCHANAN STREET . MDCCCXL . ΤΟ Their Illustrious Patron , THE RIGHT HON . SIR.
Peel Club, Glasgow. THE PEEL CLUB PAPERS FOR SESSION 1839-40 . GLASGOW : PRINTED BY GEORGE RICHARDSON , AND SOLD BY D. CAMPBELL , BUCHANAN STREET . MDCCCXL . ΤΟ Their Illustrious Patron , THE RIGHT HON . SIR.
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Peel Club, Glasgow. ΤΟ Their Illustrious Patron , THE RIGHT HON . SIR ROBERT PEEL , BART . , M.P. & c . & c . THE MEMBERS OF THE GLASGOW UNIVERSITY PEEL CLUB Dedicate , by Special Permission , THESE PAPERS , WITH FEELINGS OF PROFOUND ...
Peel Club, Glasgow. ΤΟ Their Illustrious Patron , THE RIGHT HON . SIR ROBERT PEEL , BART . , M.P. & c . & c . THE MEMBERS OF THE GLASGOW UNIVERSITY PEEL CLUB Dedicate , by Special Permission , THESE PAPERS , WITH FEELINGS OF PROFOUND ...
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Page 96 - Of Truth, of Grandeur, Beauty, Love, and Hope, And melancholy Fear subdued by Faith; Of blessed consolations in distress; Of moral strength, and intellectual Power; Of joy in widest commonalty spread...
Page 48 - I, to comfort him, bid him a' should not think of God, I hoped there was no need to trouble himself with any such thoughts yet. So a' bade me lay more clothes on his feet: I put my hand into the bed and felt them, and they were as cold as any stone; then I felt to his knees, and so upward, and upward, and all was as cold as any stone.
Page 90 - Ocean and earth, the solid frame of earth And ocean's liquid mass, beneath him lay . In gladness and deep joy. The clouds were touched, And in their silent faces could he read Unutterable love. Sound needed none, Nor any voice of joy ; his spirit drank The spectacle : sensation, soul, and form All melted into him ; they swallowed up His animal being ; in them did he live, And by them did he live ; they were his life.
Page 94 - How exquisitely the individual Mind (And the progressive powers perhaps no less Of the whole species) to the external World Is fitted : — and how exquisitely, too, Theme this but little heard of among Men, The external World is fitted to the Mind ; And the creation (by no lower name Can it be called) which they with blended might Accomplish : — this is our high argument.
Page 155 - ... while, the sole unbusy thing, Nor honey make, nor pair, nor build, nor sing. Yet well I ken the banks where Amaranths blow, Have traced the fount whence streams of nectar flow. Bloom, O ye Amaranths ! bloom for whom ye may, For me ye bloom not ! Glide, rich streams, away ! With lips unbrightened, wreathless brow, I stroll : And would you learn the spells that drowse my soul ? WORK WITHOUT HOPE draws nectar in a sieve, And HOPE without an object cannot live.
Page 90 - What soul was his, when, from the naked top Of some bold headland, he beheld the sun Rise up, and bathe the world in light...
Page 93 - Early had he learned To reverence the volume that displays The mystery, the life which cannot die; But in the mountains did he feel his faith.
Page 75 - And eloquence, native to famous wits Or hospitable, in her sweet recess, City or suburban, studious walks and shades. See there the olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long ; There, flowery hill, Hymettus, with the sound Of bees...
Page 89 - From that bleak tenement He, many an evening, to his distant home In solitude returning, saw the hills Grow larger in the darkness ; all alone Beheld the stars come out above his head, And travelled through the wood, with no one near To whom he might confess the things he saw.
Page 67 - Oh ! many are the Poets that are sown By Nature ; men endowed with highest gifts, The vision and the faculty divine ; .Yet wanting the accomplishment of verse...