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Side 16
... writer , when quite a boy , commenced riding a hobby which has given him many a keen and innocent pleasure since , and has served to pass many a delightful hour . The intrigues with the stately gray- wooled department messengers - Turn ...
... writer , when quite a boy , commenced riding a hobby which has given him many a keen and innocent pleasure since , and has served to pass many a delightful hour . The intrigues with the stately gray- wooled department messengers - Turn ...
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... writing - there being entire villages in which no one can read . Were they to train their intellects in the natural and philosophical sciences they would drink less . It would also be well for the go- vernment to prohibit the sale of ...
... writing - there being entire villages in which no one can read . Were they to train their intellects in the natural and philosophical sciences they would drink less . It would also be well for the go- vernment to prohibit the sale of ...
Side 35
... writer- " Bulwer lives in his beautiful villa in Fulham , a quiet , lonely villa above London . A tranquillity dis ... writes his new novels . His large , light- blue eyes cast longing glances out of the window ; his auburn hair flows in ...
... writer- " Bulwer lives in his beautiful villa in Fulham , a quiet , lonely villa above London . A tranquillity dis ... writes his new novels . His large , light- blue eyes cast longing glances out of the window ; his auburn hair flows in ...
Side 37
... write , Until his ink were temper'd with love's sighs . " The poor heartbroken author of Gerusalemme , whose irritable tempera- ment certainly carried him beyond that " fine madness " which we are told ought ( 6 to possess the poet's ...
... write , Until his ink were temper'd with love's sighs . " The poor heartbroken author of Gerusalemme , whose irritable tempera- ment certainly carried him beyond that " fine madness " which we are told ought ( 6 to possess the poet's ...
Side 40
... writing , which is nearly as difficult to read as Napoleon's . The most impor- tant documents were in cipher , and ... writer , and so ad- mirable a painter - magnanimously and contentedly watched and waited upon the intellect of her ...
... writing , which is nearly as difficult to read as Napoleon's . The most impor- tant documents were in cipher , and ... writer , and so ad- mirable a painter - magnanimously and contentedly watched and waited upon the intellect of her ...
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Side 186 - My heart is smitten, and withered like grass ; so that I forget to eat my bread. By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin. I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.
Side 442 - For God speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not. In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed; Then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction, That he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.
Side 477 - Oh, better that her shattered hulk Should sink beneath the wave; Her thunders shook the mighty deep, And there should be her grave : Nail to the mast her holy flag. Set every threadbare sail, And give her to the god of storms, The lightning and the gale!
Side 240 - And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee : Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly ; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation.
Side 501 - Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science.
Side 36 - I soon discovered that my father would not hear of this strange alliance, and that without his consent I was myself destitute and helpless. After a painful struggle I yielded to my fate : I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son;* my wound was insensibly/ healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life.
Side 174 - Is there no balm in Gilead ; is there no physician there ? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered...
Side 502 - If the time should ever come when what is now called science, thus familiarized to men, shall be ready to put on, as it were, a form of flesh and blood, the Poet will lend his divine spirit to aid the transfiguration, and will welcome the Being thus produced, as a dear and genuine inmate of the household of man...
Side 501 - He is the rock of defence for human nature; an upholder and preserver, carrying everywhere with him relationship and love. In spite of difference of soil and climate, of language and manners, of laws and customs: in spite of things...
Side 113 - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times ; and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow, observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.