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The characteristics there made a journey principally to see a work presented can
never be once seen and for- of art , already so celebrated . Mr. Powers gotten ;
and with prolonged study they at once expressed his surprise and admi . appear
...
The characteristics there made a journey principally to see a work presented can
never be once seen and for- of art , already so celebrated . Mr. Powers gotten ;
and with prolonged study they at once expressed his surprise and admi . appear
...
Page 91
... its ores ? now to knowledge and humanity , now What the mariner's compass ,
but for the their opposites , and , once more , to grovel artificer's thought to
escape with sails from in more inertion , with a time when men his Cretan
captivity ?
... its ores ? now to knowledge and humanity , now What the mariner's compass ,
but for the their opposites , and , once more , to grovel artificer's thought to
escape with sails from in more inertion , with a time when men his Cretan
captivity ?
Page 226
... as they would have it bering their wrongs - and through the appear -- promising
a healthy popular ex- whole extent of the South let loose the citement and a
possible continuance in horrors of a servile war . power . But the victim once in
view ...
... as they would have it bering their wrongs - and through the appear -- promising
a healthy popular ex- whole extent of the South let loose the citement and a
possible continuance in horrors of a servile war . power . But the victim once in
view ...
Page 353
me at once . or streets I do not now recollect . And the consolatory rejoinder . This
aroused it was conveyed not only to me , but to It was equivalent to doubtmy “
heirs forever . ” The phrase added ing my capacity and shrewdness in ...
me at once . or streets I do not now recollect . And the consolatory rejoinder . This
aroused it was conveyed not only to me , but to It was equivalent to doubtmy “
heirs forever . ” The phrase added ing my capacity and shrewdness in ...
Page 604
Her domination over boyish pride took fire at once ; and althe brute was so
complete , that she com- though I knew this proposition to be the pelled him
quietly to submit to seeing result of the present splenetic mood , her lavish upon
Davis ...
Her domination over boyish pride took fire at once ; and althe brute was so
complete , that she com- though I knew this proposition to be the pelled him
quietly to submit to seeing result of the present splenetic mood , her lavish upon
Davis ...
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Page 34 - There lies the port: the vessel puffs her sail: There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners, Souls that have toil'd, and wrought, and thought with me — That ever with a frolic welcome took The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed Free hearts, free foreheads — you and I are old; Old age hath yet his...
Page 34 - In offices of tenderness, and pay Meet adoration to my household gods, When I am gone. He works his work, I mine. There lies the port; the vessel puffs her sail: There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners...
Page 329 - Who made you glorious as the gates of Heaven Beneath the keen full moon? Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows? Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet? God! — let the torrents, like a shout of nations, Answer! and let the ice-plains echo, God!
Page 34 - We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven ; that which we are, we are ; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Page 33 - I am a part of all that I have met ; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro' Gleams that untravell'd world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move.
Page 206 - In this situation of this assembly, groping as it were in the dark to find political truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how has it happened, sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of lights to illuminate our understandings?
Page 177 - But, look, the morn, in russet mantle clad, Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastern hill...
Page 33 - ULYSSES. IT little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. I cannot rest from travel; I will drink Life to the lees: all times I have enjoy'd Greatly, have suffer'd greatly , both with those That loved me, and alone; on shore, and when Thro...
Page 329 - Of Nature's womb, that in quaternion run Perpetual circle, multiform, and mix And nourish all things ; let your ceaseless change Vary to our great Maker still new praise.
Page 384 - Come one, come all ! this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I.