Essays critical and imaginativeBlackwood, 1857 |
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... virtue . For what else is the " Memory of Burns , " but the memory of all that dignifies and adorns the region that gave him birth ? Not till that region is shorn of all its beams - its honesty , its independence , its moral worth , its ...
... virtue . For what else is the " Memory of Burns , " but the memory of all that dignifies and adorns the region that gave him birth ? Not till that region is shorn of all its beams - its honesty , its independence , its moral worth , its ...
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... virtue , not in driving them , as some people do , to the performance of duties to which they themselves are averse . He took care to find fault very seldom ; and , there- fore , when he did rebuke , he was listened to with a kind of ...
... virtue , not in driving them , as some people do , to the performance of duties to which they themselves are averse . He took care to find fault very seldom ; and , there- fore , when he did rebuke , he was listened to with a kind of ...
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... virtue . Let each season , with him and with all men , have its due meed of love and of praise - and , . therefore , let us all delight to declare how beautiful was the Spring ! And was there in all those bright and bold blossoms a ...
... virtue . Let each season , with him and with all men , have its due meed of love and of praise - and , . therefore , let us all delight to declare how beautiful was the Spring ! And was there in all those bright and bold blossoms a ...
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... virtue , and changes their wisdom into foolishness , of the discreetest of the children of men . But drink of it at last he did ; and like other sinners seemed sometimes even to glory in his shame . But remorse puts on looks , and ...
... virtue , and changes their wisdom into foolishness , of the discreetest of the children of men . But drink of it at last he did ; and like other sinners seemed sometimes even to glory in his shame . But remorse puts on looks , and ...
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... virtue bred , And polish'd grace . By stately tow'r or palace fair , Or ruins pendent in the air , Bold stems of heroes , here and there , I could discern ; Some seem'd to muse , some seem'd to dare , With feature stern . My heart did ...
... virtue bred , And polish'd grace . By stately tow'r or palace fair , Or ruins pendent in the air , Bold stems of heroes , here and there , I could discern ; Some seem'd to muse , some seem'd to dare , With feature stern . My heart did ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
Allan Cunningham Ambleside auld ballad bard beautiful believe better breast breath Burns's called character charm Christabel clouds Coleridge Colonsay Cottar's Saturday Night dear death delight dream Dumfries earth Ellisland evil eyes face fair fancy fear feel felt frae gauger genius George Thomson Grasmere hand happy head hear heard heart heaven Hector Macneil honour hope hour human imagination inspired knew labour lady Lars Porsena lictors light living look Mauchline mind morning Mossgiel nature never noble o'er once passion perhaps pity poem poet poet's poetical poetry poor pride racter Robert Burns round Scotland Scottish seems Shanter Shuffler sing smile song soul spirit strong sweet tears tell tender thee things Thomson thou thought tion truth verse virtue voice walk whole Whyles wild wonder words Young Poets youth
Passagens conhecidas
Página 299 - O Lady! we receive but what we give, And in our life alone does Nature live: Ours is her wedding garment, ours her shroud! And would we aught behold, of higher worth, Than that inanimate cold world allowed To the poor loveless ever-anxious crowd, Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth— And from the soul itself must there be sent A sweet and potent voice, of its own birth, Of all sweet sounds the life and element!
Página 297 - All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame, All are but ministers of Love, And feed his sacred flame. Oft in my waking dreams do I Live o'er again that happy hour, When midway on the mount I lay, Beside the ruined tower.
Página 341 - Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never a saint took pity on My soul in agony.
Página 336 - The Sun came up upon the left, Out of the sea came he! And he shone bright, and on the right Went down into the sea. Higher and higher every day, Till over the mast at noon — ' The Wedding-Guest here beat his breast.
Página 335 - The Bridegroom's doors are opened wide, And I am next of kin; The guests are met, the feast is set: May'st hear the merry din.
Página 33 - Compared with this, how poor religion's pride, In all the pomp of method, and of art, When men display to congregations wide Devotion's every grace, except the heart!
Página 337 - And now the Storm-blast came, and he Was tyrannous and strong: He struck with his o'ertaking wings, And chased us south along. "'With sloping masts and dipping prow As who pursued with yell and blow Still treads the shadow of his foe, And forward bends his head, The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast, And southward aye we fled.
Página 340 - The very deep did rot : O Christ ! That ever this should be ! Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea. " About, about, in reel and rout, The death-fires danced at night ; The water, like a witch's oils, Burnt green, and blue and white.
Página 342 - Beyond the shadow of the ship, I watched the water-snakes: They moved in tracks of shining white, And when they reared, the elfish light Fell off in hoary flakes. Within the shadow of the ship I watched their rich attire: Blue, glossy green, and velvet black, They coiled and swam; and every track Was a flash of golden fire.
Página 340 - With throats unslaked, with black lips baked, We could nor laugh nor wail; Through utter drought all dumb we stood! I bit my arm, I sucked the blood, And cried, A sail ! a sail...