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Side 10
... Fancy enervates , while it soothes the heart , And , while it dazzles , wounds the mental sight ; To joy each heightening charm it can impart , But gives to sorrow's hour a tenfold night . " As their only resource , many young ladies in ...
... Fancy enervates , while it soothes the heart , And , while it dazzles , wounds the mental sight ; To joy each heightening charm it can impart , But gives to sorrow's hour a tenfold night . " As their only resource , many young ladies in ...
Side 28
... Fancy . A creative imagination must have the aid of conception , judgment , abstraction , and taste . It is the power which inspires the poet , the historical painter , and the landscape gardener . To enjoy and appreciate the efforts of ...
... Fancy . A creative imagination must have the aid of conception , judgment , abstraction , and taste . It is the power which inspires the poet , the historical painter , and the landscape gardener . To enjoy and appreciate the efforts of ...
Side 31
... fancy , it seems cruel to rob them of this fascinating charm . Yet the sober colouring of truth best suits the mental eye : it is like the refreshing green in which nature has clothed her fields and groves - it does not " dazzle to ...
... fancy , it seems cruel to rob them of this fascinating charm . Yet the sober colouring of truth best suits the mental eye : it is like the refreshing green in which nature has clothed her fields and groves - it does not " dazzle to ...
Side 32
... fancy a hero . Pardon me ; you will smile at your own follies , if you have not , indeed , occasion to deplore them , when sobered by coming years and the rough realities of life . To prevent imagination from leading you far from duty ...
... fancy a hero . Pardon me ; you will smile at your own follies , if you have not , indeed , occasion to deplore them , when sobered by coming years and the rough realities of life . To prevent imagination from leading you far from duty ...
Side 33
... fancy - land . Read the Merchant of Venice . It is very far from being one of Shakspeare's most imagina- tive plays , and is on that very account better to begin with . Read it thrice ; first for the story , then for the characters ...
... fancy - land . Read the Merchant of Venice . It is very far from being one of Shakspeare's most imagina- tive plays , and is on that very account better to begin with . Read it thrice ; first for the story , then for the characters ...
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Side 214 - The stars are forth, the moon above the tops Of the snow-shining mountains. — Beautiful ! I linger yet with nature, for the night Hath been to me a more familiar face Than that of man ; and in her starry shade Of dim and solitary loveliness, I learned the language of another world.
Side 146 - She openeth her mouth with wisdom, and in her tongue is the law of kindness. She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness. Her children arise up and call her blessed, her husband also, and he praiseth her.
Side 152 - When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother ; Woman, behold thy son ! Then saith he to the disciple ; Behold thy Mother ! And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own iiome.
Side 155 - Things vulgar and, well weighed, scarce worth the praise? They praise, and they admire they know not what. And know not whom, but as one leads the other...
Side 231 - A something, light as air — a look, A word unkind or wrongly taken — Oh! love, that tempests never shook, A breath, a touch like this hath shaken.
Side 214 - twere anew, the gaps of centuries; Leaving that beautiful which still was so, And making that which was not, till the place Became religion, and the heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old! — The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns.
Side 204 - All that the genial ray of morning gilds, And all that echoes to the song of even, All that the mountain's sheltering bosom shields, And all 'the dread magnificence of heaven, O how canst thou renounce, and hope to be forgiven ! X.
Side 16 - The primrose by the river's brim A yellow primrose is to him, And it is nothing more.
Side 125 - My lord, it is better to be out of the world than out of the fashion.
Side 31 - Each flower of slender stalk, whose head, though gay Carnation, purple, azure, or specked with gold, Hung drooping unsustained; them she upstays Gently with myrtle band, mindless the while Herself, though fairest unsupported flower, From her best prop so far, and storm so nigh.