MiscellaniesCarey and Hart, 1842 - 308 páginas |
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... remarkable powers for the observation and description of life . The exist- ence of genius is often unknown to its possessor until developed by peculiar circumstances ; as the waters of Meribah were concealed in the rock before they were ...
... remarkable powers for the observation and description of life . The exist- ence of genius is often unknown to its possessor until developed by peculiar circumstances ; as the waters of Meribah were concealed in the rock before they were ...
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... remarkable for affectionate regard for their friends , and their inte- rest in all that belongs to humanity ; and hence they are among the best letter - writers in the English lan- guage . Pope wrote better poetry than letters . It has ...
... remarkable for affectionate regard for their friends , and their inte- rest in all that belongs to humanity ; and hence they are among the best letter - writers in the English lan- guage . Pope wrote better poetry than letters . It has ...
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... remarkable for his genius , than for a kind , amiable , and gentle nature . Southey said , " Others might possess the milk of human kindness , but Charles Lamb had monopolized the cream . " In his early life he thus wrote to a friend ...
... remarkable for his genius , than for a kind , amiable , and gentle nature . Southey said , " Others might possess the milk of human kindness , but Charles Lamb had monopolized the cream . " In his early life he thus wrote to a friend ...
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... remarkable array of facts , in relation to the family history of men eminently distinguished for genius , is taken from a late number of the London Quarterly : " We are not going to speculate about the causes of the fact - but a fact it ...
... remarkable array of facts , in relation to the family history of men eminently distinguished for genius , is taken from a late number of the London Quarterly : " We are not going to speculate about the causes of the fact - but a fact it ...
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... remarkable for the union of genius , great simplicity of character , and ardent piety which seemed daily to increase : thus indicating - as was also the case with Summerfield and Spenser - that the body in which the burning spirit dwelt ...
... remarkable for the union of genius , great simplicity of character , and ardent piety which seemed daily to increase : thus indicating - as was also the case with Summerfield and Spenser - that the body in which the burning spirit dwelt ...
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Página 62 - I sat in the orchard and thought with sweet comfort and peace of my God, in solitude my Company, my Friend, and Comforter. Oh ! when shall time give place to eternity ! When shall appear that new heaven and new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness...
Página 47 - The truth is, the Characters of Shakspeare are so much the objects of meditation rather than of interest or curiosity as to their actions, that while we are reading any of his great criminal characters, — Macbeth, Richard, even lago, — we think not so much of the crimes which they commit, as of the ambition, the aspiring spirit, the intellectual activity, which prompts them to overleap those moral fences.
Página 147 - Bible, to be followed, and as little altered as the original will permit. " 2. The names of the prophets and the holy writers, with the other names in the text, to be retained, as near as may be, accordingly as they are vulgarly used.
Página 130 - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more.
Página 24 - She was dead. No sleep so beautiful and calm, so free from trace of pain, so fair to look upon. She seemed a creature fresh from the hand of God, and waiting for the breath of life — not one who had lived and suffered death.
Página 48 - So to see Lear acted - to see an old man tottering about the stage with a walking-stick, turned out of doors by his daughters in a rainy night, has nothing in it but what is painful and disgusting.
Página 189 - Thou art my father:" to the worm, "Thou art my mother, and my sister.
Página 50 - Oh! my friend, I think sometimes, could I recall the days that are past, which among them should I choose? not those 'merrier days,' not the 'pleasant days of hope...
Página 25 - When Death strikes down the innocent and young, for every fragile form from which he lets the panting spirit free, a hundred virtues rise, in shapes of mercy, charity, and love, to walk the world, and bless it. Of every tear that sorrowing mortals shed on such green graves, some good is born, some gentler nature comes. In the Destroyer's steps there spring up bright creations that defy his power, and his dark path becomes a way of light to Heaven.
Página 100 - I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.