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... maintains fearlessly what he believes honestly , is pretty sure to find an echo ( if the speaking be not mad ) in the vast heart of the world at large . Chat Sprague The " Writings of CHARLES SPRAGUE " were AUTOGRAPHY . 51.
... maintains fearlessly what he believes honestly , is pretty sure to find an echo ( if the speaking be not mad ) in the vast heart of the world at large . Chat Sprague The " Writings of CHARLES SPRAGUE " were AUTOGRAPHY . 51.
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... heart and life undone ? " The ghost of the Great Frederick might , to be sure , quote at us , in his own Latin , his favourite adage , “ De gustibus non est disputandus ; " - but , when we take into consideration the moral designed ...
... heart and life undone ? " The ghost of the Great Frederick might , to be sure , quote at us , in his own Latin , his favourite adage , “ De gustibus non est disputandus ; " - but , when we take into consideration the moral designed ...
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... heart is full of sound . " At long intervals , we are annoyed by specimens of repulsive imagery , as where the children cry : " How long , O cruel nation , Will you stand , to move the world , on a child's heart— Stifle down with a ...
... heart is full of sound . " At long intervals , we are annoyed by specimens of repulsive imagery , as where the children cry : " How long , O cruel nation , Will you stand , to move the world , on a child's heart— Stifle down with a ...
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... heart , As if I held it in my hand , Somewhat coldly , with a sense Of fulfilled benevolence . " Or we might copy an instance of the purest and most radiant imagination , such as this : " So , young muser , I sat listening To my Fancy's ...
... heart , As if I held it in my hand , Somewhat coldly , with a sense Of fulfilled benevolence . " Or we might copy an instance of the purest and most radiant imagination , such as this : " So , young muser , I sat listening To my Fancy's ...
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... hearts of maddening fervour , unite in perfection the senti- ment of the beautiful - that divine sixth sense which is yet so faintly understood - that sense which phrenology has at- tempted to embody in its organ of ideality — that ...
... hearts of maddening fervour , unite in perfection the senti- ment of the beautiful - that divine sixth sense which is yet so faintly understood - that sense which phrenology has at- tempted to embody in its organ of ideality — that ...
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Page 505 - But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it ; the owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion and the stones of emptiness.
Page 441 - She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love : A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye! Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky.
Page 211 - So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, that moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Page 308 - There comes Poe, with his raven, like Barnaby Rudge, Three fifths of him genius and two fifths sheer fudge, Who talks like a book of iambs and pentameters, In a way to make people of common sense damn metres, Who has written some things quite the best of their kind, But the heart somehow seems all squeezed out by the mind, Who — But hey-day!
Page 237 - Wretches! ye loved her for her wealth and hated her for her pride, And when she fell in feeble health, ye blessed her that she died!
Page 237 - And star-dials pointed to morn, As the star-dials hinted of morn, At the end of our path a liquescent And nebulous lustre was born, Out of which a miraculous crescent Arose with a duplicate horn, Astarte's bediamonded crescent Distinct with its duplicate horn.
Page 494 - Twould stay, and run again, and stay. For it was nimbler much than hinds; And trod, as on the four winds. I have a garden of my own, But so with roses overgrown, And lilies, that you would it guess To be a little wilderness. And all the springtime of the year It only loved to be there.
Page 441 - Green be the turf above thee, Friend of my better days ! None knew thee but to love thee, Nor named thee but to praise.
Page 499 - In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land : whom the Lord of Hosts shall bless, saying, " Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance.
Page 417 - Twixt Want and Scorn she walk'd forlorn, And nothing could avail. No mercy now can clear her brow For this world's peace to pray ; For, as love's wild prayer dissolved in air, Her woman's heart gave way ! — But the sin forgiven by Christ in Heaven By man is cursed alway...