The Old World and the New: Or, A Journal of Reflections and Observations Made on a Tour in Europe, Volume 1Harper & Brothers, 1836 - Europe |
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... look off from some headland , or out from some quiet nook of the fast- anchored earth , to feel the grandeur or to enjoy the romance of the sea . I wonder that nobody has talked , or written , or sung , or satirized , about this ...
... look off from some headland , or out from some quiet nook of the fast- anchored earth , to feel the grandeur or to enjoy the romance of the sea . I wonder that nobody has talked , or written , or sung , or satirized , about this ...
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... looks as if it were made for " hide and go seek , " or something worse full of corners and crannies , of a most suspicious appearance - full of narrow passages and blind alleys , leading away into darkness and obscurity . A fine walk on ...
... looks as if it were made for " hide and go seek , " or something worse full of corners and crannies , of a most suspicious appearance - full of narrow passages and blind alleys , leading away into darkness and obscurity . A fine walk on ...
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... look as if they were sus- pended in the air . I went down to the shore below , and as I looked up , it seemed to span a whole third part of the heavens . A celebrated lady , ( since dead , * ) in speaking of this stupendous work , said ...
... look as if they were sus- pended in the air . I went down to the shore below , and as I looked up , it seemed to span a whole third part of the heavens . A celebrated lady , ( since dead , * ) in speaking of this stupendous work , said ...
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... look upon the humblest hearth- stone of a ruinous and deserted cottage , such as I have sometimes seen , even in our own country- our only ruins - without reading on it a whole history of human affections ? The hearthstone seems ...
... look upon the humblest hearth- stone of a ruinous and deserted cottage , such as I have sometimes seen , even in our own country- our only ruins - without reading on it a whole history of human affections ? The hearthstone seems ...
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... about it , and nobody knows anything about it . I know as much as you do , and that is nothing . There is a man dying ! Now look at him . Everything that you know about him dies with him . His speech dies ; his thoughts die E 2.
... about it , and nobody knows anything about it . I know as much as you do , and that is nothing . There is a man dying ! Now look at him . Everything that you know about him dies with him . His speech dies ; his thoughts die E 2.
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Page 137 - One morn I miss'd him on the custom'd hill, Along the heath, and near his favourite tree ; Another came ; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he. ' The next with dirges due in sad array Slow thro' the church-way path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Page 137 - The breezy call of incense-breathing Morn, The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed...
Page 93 - Above all, was the clear sky, looking almost cold, it looked so pure, along the horizon — but warmed in the region a little higher, with the vermilion tints of the softest sunset. I am persuaded that the world might be travelled over without the sight of one such spectacle as this — and all owing to the circumstances — the time — the hour. It was perhaps not the least of those circumstances influencing the scene, that it was an hour passed in one of his own holy retreats, with Wordsworth...
Page 230 - Yet a few days, and thee The all-beholding sun shall see no more In all his course, nor yet in the cold ground Where thy pale form was laid with many tears, Nor in the embrace of ocean, shall exist Thy image.
Page 82 - Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among, Leaps the live thunder ! Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue ; And Jura answers through her misty shroud Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud...
Page 88 - He remarked afterward that although he was known to the world only as a poet, he had given twelve hours' thought to the condition and prospects of society, for one to poetry.
Page 137 - One morn, I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath, and near his favorite tree: Another came ; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he: "The next, with dirges due, in sad array Slow through the church-way path we saw him borne : — Approach and read (for tbou canst read ) the lay 'Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Page 93 - The fading light trembled upon the bosom of the waters, which were here slightly ruffled, and there lay as a mirror to reflect the serenity of heaven. The dark mountains lay beyond, with every varying shade that varying distance could give them. The farthest ridges were sowed with light, as if it were resolved into separate particles and showered down into the darkness below, to make it visible. The mountain side had a softness of shadowing upon it, such as I never saw before, and such as no painting...
Page 91 - ... they neutralised and balanced each other. I admitted, however, that there was danger; that all popular institutions involved danger; that freedom was a trust, and a perilous trust. Still I insisted that this was only an instance of a general principle; that all probation was perilous; that the greatest opportunity was always the greatest peril. I maintained, also, that think as we might of political liberty, there was no helping it; that in the civilized world, the course of opinion was irresistibly...