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... soft touching music , the full warmth of the poet's heart was roused and a pleasure in each other's society excited the remembrance of which , to Edward's latest day , never ceased to afford him delight . To these circumstances ...
... soft touching music , the full warmth of the poet's heart was roused and a pleasure in each other's society excited the remembrance of which , to Edward's latest day , never ceased to afford him delight . To these circumstances ...
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... soft as the plaintive breathings of an Æolian harp , or " The still sweet fall of waters far away . " Shunning the dark haunts of Vice , detesting in his heart all sounds of unholy Strife , Edward knew little of the world's deceit , and ...
... soft as the plaintive breathings of an Æolian harp , or " The still sweet fall of waters far away . " Shunning the dark haunts of Vice , detesting in his heart all sounds of unholy Strife , Edward knew little of the world's deceit , and ...
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... soft and ten- der , which characterize the original . Most of them have filled up their pages with miraculous incidents , and scenes of horror and depravity , yet they lack the moral purpose and fine perception of good and evil which ...
... soft and ten- der , which characterize the original . Most of them have filled up their pages with miraculous incidents , and scenes of horror and depravity , yet they lack the moral purpose and fine perception of good and evil which ...
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... Soft sighs the wind o'er leaf and flower , So gently breaking Night's stillness , with bewitching power , Like lutes awaking . II . How heavenly seems this blesséd night , So chastely still , so purely bright ! So gently moulding every ...
... Soft sighs the wind o'er leaf and flower , So gently breaking Night's stillness , with bewitching power , Like lutes awaking . II . How heavenly seems this blesséd night , So chastely still , so purely bright ! So gently moulding every ...
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... Soft nurse of all that's great and good ! The mightiest will feel thy power , When Passion's scalding lava flood Hath ceased to roll . In that still hour , When thought becomes pure blessedness , Companion'd by sweet Fancy's light ...
... Soft nurse of all that's great and good ! The mightiest will feel thy power , When Passion's scalding lava flood Hath ceased to roll . In that still hour , When thought becomes pure blessedness , Companion'd by sweet Fancy's light ...
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The Poetical and Prose Remains of Edward Marsh Heavisides (Classic Reprint) Edward Marsh Heavisides No preview available - 2018 |
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Page 79 - But midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, And roam along, the world's tired denizen, With none who bless us, none whom we can bless; Minions of splendour shrinking from distress!
Page 6 - State as a means of forming good or bad citizens, and miserable or happy men, this class of schools long afforded a notable example. Although any man who had proved his unfitness for any other occupation in life, was free, without examination or qualification, to open a school anywhere; although preparation for the functions he undertook, was required in the surgeon who assisted...
Page 102 - Upon her face there was the tint of grief, The settled shadow of an inward strife, And an unquiet drooping of the eye As if its lid were charged with unshed tears.
Page 6 - ... qualification, to open a school anywhere; although preparation for the functions he undertook was required in the surgeon who assisted to bring a boy into the world, or might one day assist, perhaps, to send him out of it; in the chemist, the attorney, the butcher, the baker, the candlestickmaker; the whole round of crafts and trades, the schoolmaster excepted...
Page 120 - The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils ; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.
Page 4 - I walked down to Westminster Hall, and turned into it for half an hour, because my eyes were so dimmed with joy and pride, that they could not bear the street, and were not fit to be seen there.
Page 35 - All that this World is proud of. From their spheres The stars of human glory are cast down ; Perish the roses and the flowers of Kings, Princes, and Emperors, and the crowns and palms Of all the Mighty, withered and consumed ! Nor is power given to lowliest Innocence Long to protect her own.
Page 102 - Is thy face like thy mother's, my fair child ! Ada! sole daughter of my house and heart? When last I saw thy young blue eyes, they smiled, And then we parted, — not as now we part, But with a hope. — Awaking with a start, The waters heave around me; and on high The winds lift up their voices: I depart, Whither I know not; but the hour's gone by, When Albion's lessening shores could grieve or glad mine eye.
Page 133 - ... to hold, as it were, the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time, his form and pressure.
Page 6 - ... from such a state of things, and to flourish in it ; these Yorkshire school-masters were the lowest and most rotten round in the whole ladder. Traders in the avarice, indifference, or imbecility of parents, and the helplessness of children...