Letters from New York: 2d SeriesC. S. Francis & Company, 1850 - 287 páginas |
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angels animals arch asked beautiful believe body called cave child church colour contralto dark dashing blade deep divine earnest earth ed Valentines effect evil excitement exclaimed expression eyes face fact feeling feet flowers Frederika Bremer Freia genius girl give Gothic architecture graceful gypsum hand Hannah Adams harmony harp head heard heart heaven Henry Stuart human imagination infinite lady laws LETTER light look Mammoth Cave memory ment Millerites mind mistress mountains nature never New-York Niflheim once outward passed poor Pope Clement VI prison Quakers recollect replied rich rock round seemed Sing slave slavery smile society soprano soul sound speak spirit stalactite stalagmite stars story strong Swedenborg tell thee things Thot thou thought tion told tones transcendentalist truth utter violin voice walk woman wonder words young youth
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Página 29 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountain, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and watery depths; all these have vanished; They live no longer in the faith of reason.
Página 119 - The heavens, whose aspect makes our minds as still As they themselves appear to be, Innumerable voices fill With everlasting harmony ; The towering headlands, crowned with mist, Their feet among the billows, know That Ocean is a mighty harmonist ; Thy pinions, universal Air, Ever waving to and fro, Are delegates of harmony, and bear Strains that support the Seasons in their round ; Stern Winter loves a dirge-like sound.
Página 279 - And, when the stream Which overflowed the soul was passed away, A consciousness remained that it had left, Deposited upon the silent shore Of memory, images and precious thoughts, That shall not die, and cannot be destroyed.
Página 147 - Whose louder song is like the voice of life, Triumphant o'er death's image, but whose deep, Low, lovelier note is like a gentle wife, A poor, a pensive, yet a happy one, Stealing, when daylight's common tasks are done, An hour for mother's work, and singing low While her tired husband and her children sleep.
Página 134 - ... on another: but we must proceed, and it is in our power to proceed, as nature does in forming a flower, an animal, or any other of her productions; "rudimenta partium omnium simul parit et producit.
Página 255 - Groan underneath a weight of slavish toil, For the poor Many, measured out by rules Fetched with cupidity from heartless schools, That to an Idol, falsely called ' the Wealth Of Nations,' sacrifice a People's health, Body and mind and soul ; a thirst so keen Is ever urging on the vast machine Of sleepless Labour, 'mid whose dizzy wheels The Power least prized is that which thinks and feels.
Página 86 - Across these unearthly waters the guide can convey but two passengers at once, and these sit motionless in the canoe, with feet turned apart, so as not to disturb the balance. Three lamps are fastened to the prow, the images of which are reflected in the dismal pool. 16. If you are impatient of delay, or eager for new adventures, you can leave your companions lingering about the shore and cross the Styx by a dangerous bridge of precipices overhead. In order to do this, you must ascend a steep cliff...
Página 223 - The wife again resisted their importunities; but this time the men were more resolute. They said the duty assigned to them was a painful one; but the health of the city required punctual obedience to the orders they received ; if they ever expected the pestilence to abate, it must be by a prompt removal of the dead, and immediate fumigation of the infected apartments. She pleaded and pleaded, and even knelt to them in an agony of tears, continually saying, "I am sure he is not dead.
Página 15 - Babies crowded to hear the music, and boys ran out to see the pretty trainers, with feathers and bright buttons, ' the harlequins of the nineteenth century.
Página 71 - Her words stirred the deep fountains of his better nature. " If you are innocent," said he, "God forbid that I should make you otherwise. But you accepted my invitations and presents so readily, that I supposed you understood me." " What could I understand," said she, "except that you intended to make me your wife?