The Poetry of Life, Volume 2Carey, Lea, and Blanchard, 1835 - Life |
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... thought . All mankind who are gifted with common sense , are capable of writing verses , but all cannot feel , and still less can all write poetically . In order to do this it is necessary to feel deeply . By the exercise of ...
... thought . All mankind who are gifted with common sense , are capable of writing verses , but all cannot feel , and still less can all write poetically . In order to do this it is necessary to feel deeply . By the exercise of ...
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... thought worthy of being described in its purest , holiest character ; and of the love which lives . and glows in the pages of every poet , from Milton down to Byron , Burns , and Moore . That all who have touched the poet's magic . pen ...
... thought worthy of being described in its purest , holiest character ; and of the love which lives . and glows in the pages of every poet , from Milton down to Byron , Burns , and Moore . That all who have touched the poet's magic . pen ...
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... thoughts of our fellow creatures , must be con- ducive to the good of society ; and refinement because it enters into the secrets of social intercourse , and delights in nothing so much as communicating the happiness it derives from all ...
... thoughts of our fellow creatures , must be con- ducive to the good of society ; and refinement because it enters into the secrets of social intercourse , and delights in nothing so much as communicating the happiness it derives from all ...
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... thoughts , and memory alive only to the sound of individual notes , imprinting them se- parately upon the tablet of their minds , in order that they may be carried home , pricked down upon paper , and played upon their own pianos ; THE ...
... thoughts , and memory alive only to the sound of individual notes , imprinting them se- parately upon the tablet of their minds , in order that they may be carried home , pricked down upon paper , and played upon their own pianos ; THE ...
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... his own mortification . upon Those who are wise enough to profit by the experience of others , learn to keep silence on this theme , but it pervades their thoughts and feelings not the less . It is present with them THE POETRY OF LOVE . 21.
... his own mortification . upon Those who are wise enough to profit by the experience of others , learn to keep silence on this theme , but it pervades their thoughts and feelings not the less . It is present with them THE POETRY OF LOVE . 21.
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Page 140 - Entreat me not to leave thee, Or to return from following after thee ; For whither thou goest, I will go ; And where thou lodgest, I will lodge ; Thy people shall be my people, And thy God, my God ; Where thou diest, will I die, And there will I be buried ; The Lord do so to me, And more also, If aught but death part thee and me.
Page 271 - And chiefly Thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for Thou know'st ; Thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread Dovelike satst brooding on the vast abyss, And madest it pregnant: What in me is dark, Illumine; what is low, raise and support...
Page 267 - He, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower. His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than Archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured...
Page 130 - And Cain talked with Abel his brother : and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.
Page 160 - There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun, who rideth upon the heaven in thy help, and in his excellency on the sky. The eternal God is thy refuge; and underneath are the everlasting arms; and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee, and shall, say, Destroy them.
Page 159 - When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
Page 277 - I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her siren daughters...
Page 270 - Heaven thou wert ; and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite.
Page 153 - And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.
Page 158 - Who is like unto thee, O Lord, among the Gods? who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?