The Astrologer and Oracle of Destiny, a Repository of the Wonderful in Nature and the Curious in Art1845 |
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... aspects of the spiritual kingdom : hence our confidence is centred rather upon the matter than the manner of our inquiries . Sustained by a knowledge of the integrity of our own motives , and fired by the grandeur of our studies , we ...
... aspects of the spiritual kingdom : hence our confidence is centred rather upon the matter than the manner of our inquiries . Sustained by a knowledge of the integrity of our own motives , and fired by the grandeur of our studies , we ...
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... aspects , and have been seen to transform themselves into eagles , tigers , and monstrous serpents , before the very eyes of the astounded spectators ; but the mode by which these strange transmogrifications were performed has never ...
... aspects , and have been seen to transform themselves into eagles , tigers , and monstrous serpents , before the very eyes of the astounded spectators ; but the mode by which these strange transmogrifications were performed has never ...
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... aspect of profound thought , and then rising slowly from his seat , glided towards a pannel in the wainscot , and disappeared . For three successive nights was I favoured , at the same hour , with a return of the spectre ; when ...
... aspect of profound thought , and then rising slowly from his seat , glided towards a pannel in the wainscot , and disappeared . For three successive nights was I favoured , at the same hour , with a return of the spectre ; when ...
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... aspects of the planets , will be observed duly set forth in the Astrological Calendar of the week ; and this table of in- fluences should always be consulted for a guide as to when any undertaking of moment should be commenced ...
... aspects of the planets , will be observed duly set forth in the Astrological Calendar of the week ; and this table of in- fluences should always be consulted for a guide as to when any undertaking of moment should be commenced ...
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... aspect of a dark shooting dress . Ah ! thought I , that accounts for the sound of footsteps , but it is strange I should have fancied they were behind me , and so close too ! -I kept my eyes fixed on the stranger - a companion will ...
... aspect of a dark shooting dress . Ah ! thought I , that accounts for the sound of footsteps , but it is strange I should have fancied they were behind me , and so close too ! -I kept my eyes fixed on the stranger - a companion will ...
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Page 91 - WHEN I survey the bright Celestial sphere; So rich with jewels hung, that night Doth like an Ethiop bride appear: My soul her wings doth spread And heaven-ward flies, The Almighty's mysteries to read In the large volumes of the skies. For the bright firmament Shoots forth no flame So silent, but is eloquent In speaking the Creator's name.
Page 58 - Gainst the hot season; the mid-forest brake, Rich with a sprinkling of fair musk-rose blooms. And such too is the grandeur of the dooms We have imagined for the mighty dead; All lovely tales that we have heard or read: An endless fountain of immortal drink. Pouring unto us from the heaven's brink.
Page 58 - Made for our searching : yes, in spite of all, Some shape of beauty moves away the pall From our dark spirits. Such the sun, the moon, Trees old and young, sprouting a shady boon For simple sheep ; and such are daffodils With the green world they live in...
Page 102 - Methought I heard a voice cry, Sleep no more ! Macbeth does murder sleep, the innocent sleep ; Sleep, that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast ;— Lady M.
Page 170 - Tlie 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. But still the heart doth need a language, still Doth the old instinct bring back the old names...
Page 207 - The whole train of animated beings, from the simplest and oldest up to the highest and most recent, are, then, to be regarded as a series of advances of the principle of development, which have depended upon external physical circumstances, to which the resulting animals are appropriate.
Page 82 - For Spirits, when they please, Can either sex assume, or both ; so soft And uncompounded is their essence pure, Not tied or manacled with joint or limb, Nor founded on the brittle strength of bones, Like cumbrous flesh ; but, in what shape they choose, Dilated or condensed, bright or obscure, Can execute their aery purposes, 430 And works of love or enmity fulfil.
Page 226 - A second class resembles a sponge, which imbibes everything, and returns it nearly in the same state, only a little dirtier. A third class is like a jelly-bag which allows all that is pure to pass away, and retains only the refuse and the dregs. The fourth class may be compared to the slave in the diamond mines of Golconda, who, casting aside all that is worthless, preserves only the pure gem.
Page 91 - That from the farthest north Some nation may Yet undiscovered issue forth, And o'er his new got conquest sway. Some nation yet shut in With hills of ice, May be let out to scourge his sin, Till they shall equal him in vice. And then they likewise shall Their ruin have ; For as yourselves your empires fall, And every kingdom hath a grave.
Page 150 - Truth scarce ever yet carried it by vote anywhere at its first appearance: new opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.