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... eye : yet he thinks that none has less repaid the pains that have been bestowed on it . We should be disposed to con- trovert this statement , were not we able to employ our time more usefully in relating the important facts which Dr ...
... eye : yet he thinks that none has less repaid the pains that have been bestowed on it . We should be disposed to con- trovert this statement , were not we able to employ our time more usefully in relating the important facts which Dr ...
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... eyes were two unfailing springs Of sympathizing self - condemning tears ! ' Without meaning any real misfortune to Mr. Woodley , we unite in this sensible wish , since there might then be some 8 chance chance either that his eyes would ...
... eyes were two unfailing springs Of sympathizing self - condemning tears ! ' Without meaning any real misfortune to Mr. Woodley , we unite in this sensible wish , since there might then be some 8 chance chance either that his eyes would ...
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chance either that his eyes would be too dim to allow of any more poetical effusions , or at least that the ' unfailing ' tears would not fail to blot out some of the sins against the public which he has here committed . At page 7. of ...
chance either that his eyes would be too dim to allow of any more poetical effusions , or at least that the ' unfailing ' tears would not fail to blot out some of the sins against the public which he has here committed . At page 7. of ...
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... eye behold again , Thin scatter'd on the stony plain , The primrose scarcely bloom ? Oft fancy wanders many a mile , To scenes where nature loves to smile , And scatters charms around ; Where rocky mounts on mounts arise , Whose tow ...
... eye behold again , Thin scatter'd on the stony plain , The primrose scarcely bloom ? Oft fancy wanders many a mile , To scenes where nature loves to smile , And scatters charms around ; Where rocky mounts on mounts arise , Whose tow ...
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... eyes than mine , Beyond the stormy main . ' : Some verbal incuria , harsh elisions , defective rhymes , & c . might be easily corrected in a revision of the several productions . Art . 13 . The Home of Love , a Poem . By Mrs. Henry ...
... eyes than mine , Beyond the stormy main . ' : Some verbal incuria , harsh elisions , defective rhymes , & c . might be easily corrected in a revision of the several productions . Art . 13 . The Home of Love , a Poem . By Mrs. Henry ...
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Side 128 - The turtle to her mate hath told her tale. Summer is come, for every spray now springs: The hart hath hung his old head on the pale; The buck in brake his winter coat he flings ; The fishes flete with new repaired scale.
Side 304 - 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 302 - When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing ; all my mind was set Serious to learn and know, and thence to do What might be public good; myself I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things...
Side 301 - Half dust, half deity, alike unfit To sink or soar, with our mixed essence, make A conflict of its elements, and breathe The breath of degradation and of pride, Contending with low wants and lofty will, Till our mortality predominates, And men are — what they name not to themselves, And trust not to each other.
Side 300 - Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains ; «° They crowned him long ago On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow.
Side 20 - To get over this, my way is, to divide half a sheet of paper by a line into two columns; writing over the one pro, and over the other con; then during three or four days' consideration, I put down under the different heads short hints of the different motives, that at different times occur to me, for or against the measure. When I have thus got them all together in one view, I...
Side 284 - Nymph of a fair, but erring line ! " Gently he said — "One hope is thine. Tis written in the Book of Fate, The Peri yet may be forgiven Who brings to this Eternal Gate The Gift that is most dear to Heaven ! Go, seek it, and redeem thy sin — Tis sweet to let the Pardon'd in ! " Rapidly as comets run To th...
Side 286 - Cheer'd by this hope, she bends her thither ; — Still laughs the radiant eye of heaven, Nor have the golden bowers of even In the rich west begun to wither ; — When, o'er the vale of Balbec winging Slowly, she sees a child at play, Among the rosy wild-flowers singing, As rosy and as wild as they ; Chasing, with eager hands and eyes, The beautiful blue damsel-flies, That flutter'd round the jasmine stems, Like winged flowers or flying gems...
Side 287 - And how felt he, the wretched Man reclining there — while memory ran o'er many a year of guilt and strife, flew o'er the dark flood of his life, nor found one sunny resting-place, nor brought him back one branch of grace !
Side 304 - Midst the chief relics of almighty Rome ; The trees which grew along the broken arches Waved dark in the blue midnight, and the stars Shone through the rents of ruin ; from afar The watchdog bay'd beyond the Tiber ; and More near from out the Caesars...