The unwritten book, colloquies [&c.] by C.L. LordanPr. at Lordan's Romsey Press, 1871 |
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Page 65
... look upon the tree , to admire its outline only , or even that you gather an abstract morality from its foliage , now fair , now withering ; he claims for it an eloquence more subtile - he insists that its leaves are legible . He re ...
... look upon the tree , to admire its outline only , or even that you gather an abstract morality from its foliage , now fair , now withering ; he claims for it an eloquence more subtile - he insists that its leaves are legible . He re ...
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... look an effect of indescribable pathos . " God's name be blessed ! " said E. , looking upwards with patriarchal grace , " His mercy be praised for this one gift , that having endowed me with the heart to love , I am not left in the wide ...
... look an effect of indescribable pathos . " God's name be blessed ! " said E. , looking upwards with patriarchal grace , " His mercy be praised for this one gift , that having endowed me with the heart to love , I am not left in the wide ...
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... looks down upon " the errors and wanderings , the mists and tempests in the vale below , his prospect is chiefly with pity , not with contemptuous pride . " " Tis verily music to the mind to hear that eloquent old man recounting the ...
... looks down upon " the errors and wanderings , the mists and tempests in the vale below , his prospect is chiefly with pity , not with contemptuous pride . " " Tis verily music to the mind to hear that eloquent old man recounting the ...
Page 93
... look back upon - would have made me melancholy a few days ago , if gloomy predictions from a venerable prophet could have prevailed over anticipations more sanguine . I wish you to understand the complexion of that virtue which F ...
... look back upon - would have made me melancholy a few days ago , if gloomy predictions from a venerable prophet could have prevailed over anticipations more sanguine . I wish you to understand the complexion of that virtue which F ...
Page 94
... look indifferently on , while the foes of the ship we sail in are attempting to dismast the stately fabric which they cannot overwhelm ? " " C. - You make me anxious to hear your clerical friend : his sentiments appear to be in strict ...
... look indifferently on , while the foes of the ship we sail in are attempting to dismast the stately fabric which they cannot overwhelm ? " " C. - You make me anxious to hear your clerical friend : his sentiments appear to be in strict ...
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Page 145 - I am a part of all that I have met ; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro' Gleams that untravell'd world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use ! As tho
Page 162 - Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell : Nay, if you read this line, remember not The hand that writ it; for I love you so That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot If thinking on me then should make you woe.
Page 138 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod...
Page 146 - With dripping rains, or withered by a frost, I would not yet exchange thy sullen skies And fields without a flower, for warmer France With all her vines ; nor for Ausonia's groves Of golden fruitage and her myrtle bowers.
Page 113 - Or like forgotten lyres, whose dissonant strings Give various response to each varying blast, To whose frail frame no second motion brings One mood or modulation like the last.
Page 136 - tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep; No more ; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep...
Page 161 - His great works were performed under discountenance, and in blindness; but difficulties vanished at his touch ; he was born for whatever is arduous ; and his work is not the greatest of heroic poems, only because it is not the first.
Page 160 - Could great men thunder As Jove himself does, Jove would ne'er be quiet, For every pelting, petty officer Would use his heaven for thunder : nothing but thunder. Merciful heaven ! Thou rather, with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt, Splitt'st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak, Than the soft myrtle...
Page 121 - List his discourse of war, and you shall hear A fearful battle render'd you in music: Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter...
Page 77 - More sweet than odours caught by him who sails Near spicy shores of Araby the blest, A thousand times more exquisitely sweet, The freight of holy feeling which we meet, In thoughtful moments, wafted by the gales From fields where good men walk, or bowers wherein they rest.