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... Earth , to the , 123 Elegy from the Spanish , 131 Ettrick Shepherd , the . The skylark , 514 Evening hymn to the Virgin , 503 Evening tranquillity , 9 First and last voyage , the , 9 Friendship , emblem of , 57 Happiness , the bank of ...
... Earth , to the , 123 Elegy from the Spanish , 131 Ettrick Shepherd , the . The skylark , 514 Evening hymn to the Virgin , 503 Evening tranquillity , 9 First and last voyage , the , 9 Friendship , emblem of , 57 Happiness , the bank of ...
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... Earth , to the , 123 Elegy from the Spanish , 131 Ettrick Shepherd , the . The skylark , 514 Evening hymn to the Virgin , 503 Evening tranquillity , 9 First and last voyage , the , 9 Friendship , emblem of , 57 Happiness , the bank of ...
... Earth , to the , 123 Elegy from the Spanish , 131 Ettrick Shepherd , the . The skylark , 514 Evening hymn to the Virgin , 503 Evening tranquillity , 9 First and last voyage , the , 9 Friendship , emblem of , 57 Happiness , the bank of ...
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... earth , 123 Truth , youth , and 499 age , Vale of pines , the , 117 Village queen , the , 484 Vision , a , 347 Waring , Samuel Miller . The God of Na- ture , 58 Peter weeping , 59 The banner of heaven , 58 To the Magdalen , 58 Weep not ...
... earth , 123 Truth , youth , and 499 age , Vale of pines , the , 117 Village queen , the , 484 Vision , a , 347 Waring , Samuel Miller . The God of Na- ture , 58 Peter weeping , 59 The banner of heaven , 58 To the Magdalen , 58 Weep not ...
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... earth is rich with flowers , All bathed in crimson light ; While hums the bee mid garden bowers With clustering roses bright : The woods outshoot their shadows dim ; O'er the smooth lake the swallows skim In wild erratic flight ; Moor'd ...
... earth is rich with flowers , All bathed in crimson light ; While hums the bee mid garden bowers With clustering roses bright : The woods outshoot their shadows dim ; O'er the smooth lake the swallows skim In wild erratic flight ; Moor'd ...
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... earth , and upon a beautiful world he loved , and whose minion he had been ! Here he was to end his life - a life he had just begun to revel in ! And by what means ? By secret poison ? or by murderous assault ? No - for then it had been ...
... earth , and upon a beautiful world he loved , and whose minion he had been ! Here he was to end his life - a life he had just begun to revel in ! And by what means ? By secret poison ? or by murderous assault ? No - for then it had been ...
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Page 299 - A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay...
Page 82 - Therefore the land mourns, and all who dwell in it languish, and also the beasts of the field, and the birds of the air; and even the fish of the sea are taken away.
Page 141 - But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature.
Page 141 - Who knows whether the best of men be known, or whether there be not more remarkable persons forgot, than any that stand remembered in the known account of time...
Page 281 - Yielding to immoral pleasure corrupts the mind, living to animal and trifling ones debases it: both in their degree disqualify it for its genuine good, and consign it over to wretchedness. Whoever would be really happy must make the diligent and regular exercise of his superior powers his chief attention, adoring the perfections of his Maker, expressing good-will to his fellow-creatures, cultivating inward rectitude.
Page 304 - They too are among the unhappy. They feel personal pain and domestic sorrow. In these they have no privilege, but are subject to pay their full contingent to the contributions levied on mortality. They want this sovereign balm under their gnawing cares and anxieties, which being less conversant about the limited wants of animal life, range without limit, and are diversified by infinite combinations in the wild and unbounded regions of imagination. Some charitable dole is wanting...
Page 504 - Wild is thy lay and loud, Far in the downy cloud, Love gives it energy, love gave it birth ; Where on thy dewy wing, Where art thou journeying? Thy lay is in heaven, thy love is on earth. O'er fell and fountain sheen. O'er moor and mountain green, O'er the red streamer that heralds...
Page 277 - Not a single red tile, no flaming gentleman's house, or garden walls break in upon the repose of this little unsuspected paradise, but all is peace, rusticity, and happy poverty in its neatest, most becoming attire.
Page 514 - ... that I scarce see what passes under my nose, and hear nothing that is said about me. To follow poetry as one ought, one must forget father and mother, and cleave to it alone.
Page 459 - Up ! up to yon cliff! like a king to his throne ! O'er the black silent forest piled lofty and lone — A throne which the eagle is glad to resign Unto footsteps so fleet and so fearless as thine. There the bright heather springs up in love of thy breast, Lo...