Contributions to HerographyErastus Darrow, 1850 - 101 páginas |
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... eternal gush of love . " It is not uncommon to speak lightly , and to smile with ridicule , at the mention of changeless , sentimental love . I doubt not it is a rare emotion , entirely above and beyond the capacity of the vulgar beaux ...
... eternal gush of love . " It is not uncommon to speak lightly , and to smile with ridicule , at the mention of changeless , sentimental love . I doubt not it is a rare emotion , entirely above and beyond the capacity of the vulgar beaux ...
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... eternal celibacy . Having sufficiently deprecated the ridicule of his corres- pondents , Burns entered upon a period of his life , the most happy , as he afterwards avowed , that he had ever enjoyed . His wife was just the affectionate ...
... eternal celibacy . Having sufficiently deprecated the ridicule of his corres- pondents , Burns entered upon a period of his life , the most happy , as he afterwards avowed , that he had ever enjoyed . His wife was just the affectionate ...
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... eternal nature and unalterable relations of things . Acting consistently with his notions of propriety in this respect , he proceeded to exercise a right which , as he considered , belonged to each individual member of the body politic ...
... eternal nature and unalterable relations of things . Acting consistently with his notions of propriety in this respect , he proceeded to exercise a right which , as he considered , belonged to each individual member of the body politic ...
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... eternal hostility to every kind of tyranny over the mind of man . " And although he himself was afterwards forced to wear the helot's servile garb and to acknowledge the sway of a superior human power , never did Rome's fearful scourge ...
... eternal hostility to every kind of tyranny over the mind of man . " And although he himself was afterwards forced to wear the helot's servile garb and to acknowledge the sway of a superior human power , never did Rome's fearful scourge ...
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... eternal part , and was laid to rest beneath this self - writ- ten epitaph : The Body Of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN , Printer , ( Like the cover of an old book , Its contents torn out , And stripped of its lettering and gilding , ) Lies here ...
... eternal part , and was laid to rest beneath this self - writ- ten epitaph : The Body Of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN , Printer , ( Like the cover of an old book , Its contents torn out , And stripped of its lettering and gilding , ) Lies here ...
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Página 55 - The Body Of Benjamin Franklin, Printer, (Like the cover of an old book, Its contents torn out, And stript of its lettering and gilding,) Lies here, food for worms. But the work shall not be lost, For it will, as he believed, appear once more, In a new and more elegant edition, Revised and corrected By THE AUTHOR.
Página 37 - To suffer woes which hope thinks infinite ; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night ; To defy power which seems omnipotent ; To love and bear ; to hope till hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates...
Página 11 - Guid faith he mauna fa' that ! For a' that, and a' that, Their dignities, and a' that, The pith o' sense, and pride o' worth, Are higher rank than a' that. Then let us pray that come it may, As come it will for a' that ; That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth, May bear the gree, and a' that. For a
Página 6 - Still o'er these scenes my memory wakes, And fondly broods with miser care ! Time but the impression deeper makes, As streams their channels deeper wear.
Página 11 - A man's a man for a' that. For a' that, and a' that, Their tinsel show, and a' that; The honest man, though e'er sae poor, Is king o' men for a' that. Ye see yon birkie ca'da lord, Wha struts, and stares, and a' that — Though hundreds worship at his word, He's but a coof for a' that ; For a* that, and a' that, His riband, star, and a' that; The man of independent mind, He looks and laughs at a
Página 20 - Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the .¿Eolian harp, passive, takes the impression of the passing accident; or do these workings argue something within us above the trodden clod? I own myself partial to such proofs of those awful and important realities: a God that made all things, man's immaterial and immortal nature, and a world of weal or woe beyond death and the grave.
Página 6 - She was a form of life and light, That, seen, became a part of sight...
Página 11 - Our toils obscure an' a' that, The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The Man's the gowd for a' that. What though on hamely fare we dine, Wear hoddin grey, an' a that; Gie fools their silks, and knaves their wine; A Man's a Man for a
Página 20 - All the faculties of Burns's mind were, as far as I could judge, equally vigorous ; and his predilection for poetry was rather the result of his own enthusiastic and impassioned temper, than of a genius exclusively adapted to that species of composition. From his conversation I should have pronounced him to be fitted to excel in whatever walk of ambition he had chosen to exert his abilities.
Página 5 - Thou ling'ring star, with less'ning ray, That lov'st to greet the early morn, Again thou usher'st in the day My Mary from my soul was torn. O Mary! dear departed shade! Where is thy place of blissful rest? Seest thou thy lover lowly laid? Hear'st thou the groans that rend his breast?