The Recreations of Christopher NorthD. Appleton, 1870 - 307 sider |
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... genius and our brightest star , we suddenly saw him sitting asleep in all his state , within gunshot , in a bay of the moonlight Loch ! We had nearly fainted died on the very spot - and why were we no entitled to have died as well as ...
... genius and our brightest star , we suddenly saw him sitting asleep in all his state , within gunshot , in a bay of the moonlight Loch ! We had nearly fainted died on the very spot - and why were we no entitled to have died as well as ...
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... Genius - so is Virtue . Which is the great- the flowers around them , in praise of the est ? It might seem hard to tell ; but united , Power at whose footstool they " stooped their they go forth conquering and to conquer . Nor anointed ...
... Genius - so is Virtue . Which is the great- the flowers around them , in praise of the est ? It might seem hard to tell ; but united , Power at whose footstool they " stooped their they go forth conquering and to conquer . Nor anointed ...
Side 46
... genius any thing like fair play , and he will gain glory nay bread . True , he may be before his age and may have to create his worshippers . Bu how few such ! And is it a disgrace to an age to produce a genius whose grandeur it cannot ...
... genius any thing like fair play , and he will gain glory nay bread . True , he may be before his age and may have to create his worshippers . Bu how few such ! And is it a disgrace to an age to produce a genius whose grandeur it cannot ...
Side 47
... Genius , let us know for whom we may rightly shed our tears . With one drop of ink you may write the names of all " The mighty Poets in their misery dead . ” Wordsworth wrote those lines , as we said , in the inspiration of a profound ...
... Genius , let us know for whom we may rightly shed our tears . With one drop of ink you may write the names of all " The mighty Poets in their misery dead . ” Wordsworth wrote those lines , as we said , in the inspiration of a profound ...
Side 48
... Genius a right to claim from Con- science what is due but to Virtue . None who love humanity can wish to speak harshly of its mere frailties or errors - but none who revere morality can allow privilege to its sins . All who sin suffer ...
... Genius a right to claim from Con- science what is due but to Virtue . None who love humanity can wish to speak harshly of its mere frailties or errors - but none who revere morality can allow privilege to its sins . All who sin suffer ...
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Side 159 - The Lord giveth, and the Lord ' taketh away ; blessed be the name of the Lord.
Side 187 - All strength — all terror, single or in bands, That ever was put forth in personal form — Jehovah — with his thunder, and the choir Of shouting Angels, and the empyreal thrones — I pass them unalarmed.
Side 184 - God's almightiness, and what he works, and what he suffers to be wrought with high providence in his church ; to sing victorious agonies of martyrs and saints, the deeds and triumphs of just and pious nations, doing valiantly through faith against the enemies of Christ ; to deplore the general relapses of kingdoms and states from justice and God's true worship.
Side 195 - Yea, though I walk in death's dark vale, Yet will I fear none ill ; For thou art with me ; and thy rod And staff me comfort still.
Side 196 - These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins; these are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the first-fruits unto God and to the Lamb.
Side 182 - The essence of poetry is invention ; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. The topics of devotion are few, and being few are universally known ; but few as they are, they can be made no more ; they can receive no grace from novelty of sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression.
Side 195 - Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault The pealing anthem swells the note of praise.
Side 196 - When they had heard the king, they departed; and, lo, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was.
Side 134 - Live you ? or are you aught That man may question ? You seem to understand me, By each at once her choppy finger laying Upon her skinny lips. — You should be women, And yet your beards forbid me to interpret That you are so.
Side 86 - And sees, on high, amidst th' encircling groves, From cliff to cliff the foaming torrents shine: While waters, woods, and winds, in concert join, And echo swells the chorus to the skies. Would Edwin this majestic scene resign For aught the huntsman's puny craft supplies ? Ah ! no : he better knows great Nature's charms to prize.