Peter's Letters to His Kinsfolk: To which is Added, Postscript Addressed to Samuel T. ColeridgeJames and John Harper, no. 138 Fulton-Street, 1820 - 520 páginas |
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... equal share of power and of honour . In the church , their principles are maintained by a mighty majority of a clergy , whom even their enemies will acknowledge to be the most learned in the world , and who , whatever may be their ...
... equal share of power and of honour . In the church , their principles are maintained by a mighty majority of a clergy , whom even their enemies will acknowledge to be the most learned in the world , and who , whatever may be their ...
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... equal and undivided over the whole surface , as if no touch but that of Time had been there , and as if even He had traced the vestiges of his dominion with a sure , indeed , but with a delicate and reve- rential finger . The lineaments ...
... equal and undivided over the whole surface , as if no touch but that of Time had been there , and as if even He had traced the vestiges of his dominion with a sure , indeed , but with a delicate and reve- rential finger . The lineaments ...
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... equal . This is a subject of which it would require a bolder man than I am to say so much , to almost any Scotchman whose education has been entirely conducted in his own country . If you venture only to tread upon the hem of that ...
... equal . This is a subject of which it would require a bolder man than I am to say so much , to almost any Scotchman whose education has been entirely conducted in his own country . If you venture only to tread upon the hem of that ...
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... equal satisfaction to both the great classes into which readers of Encyclopædias must necessarily be di- vided . All the other Encyclopædias published in this coun- try , have been edited either by persons possessed of 128 PETER'S ...
... equal satisfaction to both the great classes into which readers of Encyclopædias must necessarily be di- vided . All the other Encyclopædias published in this coun- try , have been edited either by persons possessed of 128 PETER'S ...
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... equal to the most ap- proved publications of the continental authors . But it is not his intimate acquaintance with mineralogy alone , which renders Mr. Jameson so capable of doing honour to the chair which he holds . He is also greatly ...
... equal to the most ap- proved publications of the continental authors . But it is not his intimate acquaintance with mineralogy alone , which renders Mr. Jameson so capable of doing honour to the chair which he holds . He is also greatly ...
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Página 308 - In that fair Clime, the lonely Herdsman, stretched On the soft grass through half a summer's day, With music lulled his indolent repose : And, in some fit of weariness, if he, When his own breath was silent, chanced to hear A distant strain, far sweeter than the sounds Which his poor skill could make, his Fancy fetched, Even from the blazing Chariot of the Sun, A beardless Youth, who touched a golden lute, And filled the illumined groves with ravishment.
Página 308 - ... wings, Lacked not, for love, fair objects whom they wooed With gentle whisper. Withered boughs grotesque, Stripped of their leaves and twigs by hoary age, From depth of shaggy covert peeping forth In the low vale, or on steep mountain side; And, sometimes, intermixed with stirring horns Of the live deer, or goat's depending beard,— These were the lurking Satyrs, a wild brood Of gamesome Deities; or Pan himself, The simple shepherd's awe-inspiring God!
Página 78 - From that bleak tenement He, many an evening, to his distant home In solitude returning, saw the hills Grow larger in the darkness; all alone Beheld the stars come out above his head, And travelled through the wood, with no one near To whom he might confess the things he saw.
Página 97 - The darkest pit of lowest Erebus, Nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out By help of dreams — can breed such fear and awe As fall upon us often when we look Into our Minds, into the Mind of Man — 4o My haunt, and the main region of my song.
Página 97 - All strength — all terror, single or in bands, That ever was put forth in personal form — Jehovah — with his thunder, and the choir Of shouting Angels, and the empyreal thrones — I pass them unalarmed.
Página 353 - With solemn touches,* troubled thoughts, and chase Anguish and doubt and fear and sorrow and pain From mortal or immortal minds. Thus they Breathing united force with fixed thought Moved on in silence to soft pipes that charmed Their painful steps o'er the burnt soil...
Página 116 - Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light: But, oh ! she dances such a way— No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight.
Página 69 - Love had he found in huts where poor men lie; His daily teachers had been woods and rills, The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills.
Página 317 - ... chief charm ; the most keen perception, the most tenacious memory, and the most brilliant imagination, having been at work throughout the whole of his busy life, in filling his mind with a store of individual traits and anecdotes, serious and comic, individual and national, such as it is probable no man ever before possessed — and such, still more certainly, as no man of great original power ever before possessed in subservience to the purposes of inventive genius.
Página 437 - Man, earth's thoughtful Lord ; Then, in full many a region, once like this The assured domain of calm simplicity And pensive quiet, an unnatural light, Prepared for never-resting Labour's eyes, Breaks from a many-windowed Fabric...