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... means necessarily lead on to the achievement of consummate harmony in music or in verse ; and yet consummate harmony in either has never been found where the natural gift has not made itself conspicuous long before . before . Spenser's ...
... means necessarily lead on to the achievement of consummate harmony in music or in verse ; and yet consummate harmony in either has never been found where the natural gift has not made itself conspicuous long before . before . Spenser's ...
Side 43
... mean , and thievish ; and , though they may keep good faith with their own race , they will find means to evade the spirit of a pledge given to a stranger , if it be much to their interest to do so . Their hospitality appears greater ...
... mean , and thievish ; and , though they may keep good faith with their own race , they will find means to evade the spirit of a pledge given to a stranger , if it be much to their interest to do so . Their hospitality appears greater ...
Side 56
... means of the Feringees who ruled over India , and if his remarks were severe , they were very amusingly made . 6 " The Feringees , " he commenced , " are , I beg leave to represent , by no means a pleasant people to be among ; for they ...
... means of the Feringees who ruled over India , and if his remarks were severe , they were very amusingly made . 6 " The Feringees , " he commenced , " are , I beg leave to represent , by no means a pleasant people to be among ; for they ...
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... means of obtain- ing happiness . 6 That they attained only to the rejection of the false gods , with- out acquiring any knowledge of the true one , can hardly be objected to them by us , who know what ages were required to elaborate the ...
... means of obtain- ing happiness . 6 That they attained only to the rejection of the false gods , with- out acquiring any knowledge of the true one , can hardly be objected to them by us , who know what ages were required to elaborate the ...
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... means for its own efficiency . If men were perfectly virtuous , no system of government would be necessary ; and that system only is good which either prevents the corruption of morals , or controls the mischief by preserving the vigour ...
... means for its own efficiency . If men were perfectly virtuous , no system of government would be necessary ; and that system only is good which either prevents the corruption of morals , or controls the mischief by preserving the vigour ...
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Side 290 - For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth ; but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity, Not harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue.
Side 29 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth ; And constancy lives in realms above ; And life is thorny ; and youth is vain ; And to be wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain.
Side 289 - To them I may have owed another gift, Of aspect more sublime; that blessed mood, In which the burthen of the mystery, In which the heavy and the weary weight Of all this unintelligible world, Is lightened...
Side 290 - All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things. Therefore am I still A lover of the meadows and the woods, And mountains; and of all that we behold From this green earth; of all the mighty world Of eye, and ear, — ;both what they half create, And what perceive...
Side 42 - And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them ; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat.
Side 306 - tis her privilege, Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy: for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith, that all which we behold Is full of blessings.
Side 14 - A grief without a pang, void, dark, and drear, A stifled, drowsy, unimpassioned grief, Which finds no natural outlet, no relief, In word, or sigh, or tear O Lady!
Side 379 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Side 383 - And they shall turn the rivers far away ; and the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up : the reeds and flags shall wither.
Side 294 - Tis Nature's law That none, the meanest of created things, Of forms created the most vile and brute, The dullest or most noxious, should exist Divorced from good, a spirit and pulse of good, A life and soul, to every mode of being Inseparably linked.