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... once . The reason is generally acknowledged to be this - that on the continent the artist has freer access to that which is beautiful in taste and art . In the designs which adorn the Parisian clocks , you may trace the forms of beauty ...
... once . The reason is generally acknowledged to be this - that on the continent the artist has freer access to that which is beautiful in taste and art . In the designs which adorn the Parisian clocks , you may trace the forms of beauty ...
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... once has felt it , with the highest truths of the invisible world , you condemn the worker to a desolate lot indeed . You have a second class of means in your Institution for refining taste - works of fiction . It is in vain to rail at ...
... once has felt it , with the highest truths of the invisible world , you condemn the worker to a desolate lot indeed . You have a second class of means in your Institution for refining taste - works of fiction . It is in vain to rail at ...
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... once beat warm , were insensibly taught by the works of Dickens to feel that in this country , close to their own homes , there was a truth of human life , the existence of which they had not suspected . If you We all remember the ...
... once beat warm , were insensibly taught by the works of Dickens to feel that in this country , close to their own homes , there was a truth of human life , the existence of which they had not suspected . If you We all remember the ...
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... once great that are now nothing . The land of the Pharaohs is in decay ; its population is now diminishing , and the sand of the desert daily silting up the temples of her former magni- ficence : Rome is broken into fragments ...
... once great that are now nothing . The land of the Pharaohs is in decay ; its population is now diminishing , and the sand of the desert daily silting up the temples of her former magni- ficence : Rome is broken into fragments ...
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... once again in its silent strength . The heart of England is waking to her work , that mighty heart which is so hard to rouse to strong emotion , but the pulses of which , when once roused , are like the ocean in its strength , sweeping ...
... once again in its silent strength . The heart of England is waking to her work , that mighty heart which is so hard to rouse to strong emotion , but the pulses of which , when once roused , are like the ocean in its strength , sweeping ...
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Page 176 - 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 110 - 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 5 - 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 164 - Sound needed none, Nor any voice of joy ; his spirit drank The spectacle : sensation, soul, and form All melted into him ; they swallowed up His animal being ; in them did he live, And by them did he live ; they were his life. In such access of mind, in such high hour Of visitation from the living God, Thought was not ; in enjoyment it expired.
Page 144 - 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.
Page 156 - 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 279 - Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be: They are but broken lights of thee, And thou, O Lord, art more than they.
Page 7 - As come it will for a' that — That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth, May bear the gree, and a' that ; For a' that, and a' that, It's coming yet for a' that, That man to man, the world o'er, Shall brothers be for a
Page 114 - O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength ; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.
Page 125 - Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day ; And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond "Which keeps me pale...