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... speak , spite of all , though the lips never move , In the tale - telling blush which no art can control , In the lids half concealing the eyes full of love ! So he spoke the soft word , while the gentle emotion Flushed over her cheek ...
... speak , spite of all , though the lips never move , In the tale - telling blush which no art can control , In the lids half concealing the eyes full of love ! So he spoke the soft word , while the gentle emotion Flushed over her cheek ...
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... speaking of awkwardness in books ; it appears strange to me that publishers do not take into consideration more than fine paper , clear - cut type and gilt labelling in their getting - up ' of a book . Charles Lamb said , ( and none ...
... speaking of awkwardness in books ; it appears strange to me that publishers do not take into consideration more than fine paper , clear - cut type and gilt labelling in their getting - up ' of a book . Charles Lamb said , ( and none ...
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... speaking , the Williamstown mountains do not belong to the Green Mountains , although the inhabitants usually speak of them as if they did . The Green Mountains are west of the place where we stood ; and it was delightful to see how ...
... speaking , the Williamstown mountains do not belong to the Green Mountains , although the inhabitants usually speak of them as if they did . The Green Mountains are west of the place where we stood ; and it was delightful to see how ...
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... speak of science , touch on art , Discourse of each day's wondrous store Of subjects that the times impart To please the taste ; but nothing more ! We touch not on those hidden springs Where well the founts of love unknown , Our stores ...
... speak of science , touch on art , Discourse of each day's wondrous store Of subjects that the times impart To please the taste ; but nothing more ! We touch not on those hidden springs Where well the founts of love unknown , Our stores ...
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... speak a cheering word That almost choked him , and was scarcely heard , Was but a moment's act- and he was gone To where a fearful foresight led him on . Passing a neighbor's cottage in his way , MARK FENTON'S , him he took , with short ...
... speak a cheering word That almost choked him , and was scarcely heard , Was but a moment's act- and he was gone To where a fearful foresight led him on . Passing a neighbor's cottage in his way , MARK FENTON'S , him he took , with short ...
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Página 501 - Neither the perseverance of Holland nor the activity of France nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise ever carried this most perilous mode of...
Página 37 - And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.
Página 492 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground •which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the...
Página 493 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Página 501 - Straits, — whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold ; that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the South. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and restingplace in the progress of their victorious industry.
Página 491 - WE were now treading that illustrious Island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion.
Página 259 - ... thy books; but let it be to such a one as STC — he will return them (generally anticipating the time appointed) with usury; enriched with annotations, tripling their value. I have had experience. Many are these precious MSS. of his — (in matter oftentimes, and almost in quantity not unfrequently, vying with the originals) in no very clerkly hand — legible in my Daniel; in old Burton; in Sir Thomas Browne; and those abstruser cogitations of the Greville, now, alas! wandering in Pagan lands....
Página 501 - ... any care of ours, and that they are not squeezed into this happy form by the constraints of watchful and suspicious government, but that through a wise and salutary neglect, a generous nature has been suffered to take her own way to perfection; when I reflect upon these effects, when I see how profitable they have been to us, — I feel all the pride of power sink, and all presumption in the wisdom of human contrivances melt, and die away within me. My rigor relents. I pardon something to the...
Página 259 - ... to come bolt upon a withering Population Essay. To expect a Steele, or a Farquhar, and find — Adam Smith. To view a well-arranged assortment of blockheaded Encyclopaedias (Anglicanas or Metropolitanas) set out in an array of Russia, or Morocco, when a tithe of that good leather would comfortably re-clothe my shivering folios; would renovate Paracelsus himself, and enable old Raymund Lully to look like himself again in the world.
Página 496 - ... apostatize, yet the cause will live; and though the public speaker should die, yet the immortal fire shall outlast the organ which conveyed it, and the breath of liberty, like the word of the holy man, will not die with the prophet, but survive him.