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... seen by the mariner , when he bounds o'er the waves of the nòrth . " - Ossian . ON PRAYER . Prayer is the soul's sincere desire , Utter'd or unexpress'd ; The motion of a hidden fire , That trembles in the breast . Prayer is the burden ...
... seen by the mariner , when he bounds o'er the waves of the nòrth . " - Ossian . ON PRAYER . Prayer is the soul's sincere desire , Utter'd or unexpress'd ; The motion of a hidden fire , That trembles in the breast . Prayer is the burden ...
Page 44
... seen in all their motions , all their makes . Design implies intelligence and art : That can't be from themselves - or man . That art , Man scarce can comprehend , could man bestow , - And nothing greater yet allowed than man ! Who ...
... seen in all their motions , all their makes . Design implies intelligence and art : That can't be from themselves - or man . That art , Man scarce can comprehend , could man bestow , - And nothing greater yet allowed than man ! Who ...
Page 69
... seen , admits , nay , necessarily involves , an ellipsis the clause common to both terms of an antithesis , is obviously ellipti- cal , and admits of no modulation . The following quota- tion is very generally adduced as an example of ...
... seen , admits , nay , necessarily involves , an ellipsis the clause common to both terms of an antithesis , is obviously ellipti- cal , and admits of no modulation . The following quota- tion is very generally adduced as an example of ...
Page 78
... seen another do so in similar circum- stances , and supposes he should do the same . That other may have been received with rapture , because he felt his author ; while this fails , simply because he does not . In the former , the ...
... seen another do so in similar circum- stances , and supposes he should do the same . That other may have been received with rapture , because he felt his author ; while this fails , simply because he does not . In the former , the ...
Page 79
... seen it before , and detect the absence of it in those who hitherto seemed to possess it ? In the first place , natural action will harmonise with the subject . Is the subject moving - admitting the higher PRINCIPLES AND EXERCISES . 79.
... seen it before , and detect the absence of it in those who hitherto seemed to possess it ? In the first place , natural action will harmonise with the subject . Is the subject moving - admitting the higher PRINCIPLES AND EXERCISES . 79.
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Page 45 - Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on ? how then ? Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound ? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then ? No. What is honour? A word. What is in that word, honour? What is that honour? Air. A trim reckoning ! — Who hath it? He that died o
Page 283 - Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other. Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one.
Page 330 - Seems, madam! nay, it is; I know not seems. 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black, Nor windy suspiration of forc'd breath, No, nor the fruitful river in the eye.
Page 114 - The depth saith, It is not in me; and the sea saith, It is not with me. It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.
Page 265 - Is it far away in some region old, Where the rivers wander o'er sands of gold ? Where the burning rays of the ruby shine, And the diamond lights up the secret mine, And the pearl gleams forth from the coral strand — Is it there, sweet mother, that better land ? Not there ; not there, my child.
Page 217 - ON Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow, And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden saw another sight, When the drum beat at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery.
Page 275 - Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow...
Page 94 - tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them ? — To die — to sleep — No more ; and, by a sleep, to say we end The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to — 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die — to sleep ; — To sleep ! perchance to dream : — ay, there's the rub ; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal...
Page 208 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar...
Page 299 - Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.