Lectures and Addresses on Literary and Social TopicsSmith, Elder and Company, 1858 - 308 pages |
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... Early Closing Association , presided over by the Bishop of Chichester . A Speech delivered at a Meeting of the Brighton District Association for Improving the Dwellings of the Industrious Classes , held at the Pavilion , Brighton ...
... Early Closing Association , presided over by the Bishop of Chichester . A Speech delivered at a Meeting of the Brighton District Association for Improving the Dwellings of the Industrious Classes , held at the Pavilion , Brighton ...
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... earliest language of all nations is Poetry . Language has been truly called fossil Poetry : and just as we apply to domestic use slabs of marble , unconscious almost that they contain the petrifactions of innumerable former lives , so ...
... earliest language of all nations is Poetry . Language has been truly called fossil Poetry : and just as we apply to domestic use slabs of marble , unconscious almost that they contain the petrifactions of innumerable former lives , so ...
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... of the gardener's greenhouse , and the moated grange , and the long , grey flats of " unpoetic " Lincolnshire . Read Words- worth's " Nutting , " and his fine analysis of the remorse experienced in early youth at the wanton tearing down ...
... of the gardener's greenhouse , and the moated grange , and the long , grey flats of " unpoetic " Lincolnshire . Read Words- worth's " Nutting , " and his fine analysis of the remorse experienced in early youth at the wanton tearing down ...
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Frederick William Robertson. remorse experienced in early youth at the wanton tearing down of branches , as if the desolation on which the blue sky looks reproachfully through the open space where foliage was before , were a crime ...
Frederick William Robertson. remorse experienced in early youth at the wanton tearing down of branches , as if the desolation on which the blue sky looks reproachfully through the open space where foliage was before , were a crime ...
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... early , in the maturity of his powers , just at the moment when they seemed about to become avail- able to mankind ? What means all this , and is there not something wrong ? Is the law of Crea- tion Love indeed ? By slow degrees , all ...
... early , in the maturity of his powers , just at the moment when they seemed about to become avail- able to mankind ? What means all this , and is there not something wrong ? Is the law of Crea- tion Love indeed ? By slow degrees , all ...
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Page 228 - Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee: she is a fen Of stagnant waters: altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. We are selfish men; Oh ! raise us up, return to us again ; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power.
Page 141 - Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Page 165 - Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful Dawn; A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and way-lay.
Page 6 - And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory ; and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.
Page 180 - Look at her garments, Clinging like cerements; Whilst the wave constantly Drips from her clothing; Take her up instantly, Loving, not loathing. Touch her not scornfully; Think of her mournfully, Gently and humanly, Not of the stains of her — All that remains of her Now is pure womanly. Make no deep scrutiny Into her mutiny Rash and undutiful: Past all dishonour, Death has left on her Only the beautiful.
Page 145 - O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength ; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.
Page 164 - She was a phantom of delight, When first she gleamed upon my sight...
Page 202 - Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good : Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.
Page 233 - High is our calling, friend ! — Creative art (Whether the instrument of words she use, Or pencil pregnant with ethereal hues,) Demands the service of a mind and heart, Though sensitive, yet, in their weakest part, Heroically fashioned — to infuse Faith in the whispers of the lonely muse, While the whole world seems adverse to desert.
Page 184 - Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind, To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such As you too shall adore; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more.