Literary Leaders of Modern EnglandChautauqua Press, 1902 - 275 páginas |
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... Death , and win the vacant and the vain To noble raptures ; while my voice proclaims How exquisitely the individual mind ( And the progressive powers perhaps no less Of the whole species ) to the external world Is fitted ; —and how ...
... Death , and win the vacant and the vain To noble raptures ; while my voice proclaims How exquisitely the individual mind ( And the progressive powers perhaps no less Of the whole species ) to the external world Is fitted ; —and how ...
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... death of Louis is irrational and weak . " He is even ardent republican enough to argue for equality , and to say that in the perfect state “ no dis- tinctions are to be admitted but such as have evidently for their object the general ...
... death of Louis is irrational and weak . " He is even ardent republican enough to argue for equality , and to say that in the perfect state “ no dis- tinctions are to be admitted but such as have evidently for their object the general ...
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... death of Nelson . It was in the autumn of the previous year that Nelson had fallen on the deck of the Victory , and the shock of sorrow and con- sternation which passed over England has never been equaled by any similar public calamity ...
... death of Nelson . It was in the autumn of the previous year that Nelson had fallen on the deck of the Victory , and the shock of sorrow and con- sternation which passed over England has never been equaled by any similar public calamity ...
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... death - bed to read over to her and to her husband the poem of " The Pet Lamb , " and how she had said at the end , " That was written about me ; Mr. Wordsworth often spoke to me , and patted my head when a child , " and had added with ...
... death - bed to read over to her and to her husband the poem of " The Pet Lamb , " and how she had said at the end , " That was written about me ; Mr. Wordsworth often spoke to me , and patted my head when a child , " and had added with ...
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... death , nor could he bring himself to realize it as a state applicable to his own being . He felt within him- self the movements of a spirit that knew nothing of decay or death . He even felt it difficult to realize the fact of an ...
... death , nor could he bring himself to realize it as a state applicable to his own being . He felt within him- self the movements of a spirit that knew nothing of decay or death . He even felt it difficult to realize the fact of an ...
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Página 179 - The year's at the spring And day's at the morn; Morning's at seven; The hill-side's dew-pearled; The lark's on the wing; The snail's on the thorn: God's in his heaven — All's right with the world!
Página 251 - And cometh from afar: Not in entire forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory do we come From God, who is our home: Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing Boy, But He beholds the light, and whence it flows, He sees it in his joy; The Youth, who daily farther from the east Must travel, still is Nature's Priest, And by the vision splendid Is on his way attended; At length the Man perceives it die away, And fade into...
Página 21 - One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good Than all the sages can.
Página 133 - So careful of the type?' but no. From scarped cliff and quarried stone She cries, 'A thousand types are gone: I care for nothing, all shall go. Thou makest thine appeal to me: I bring to life, I bring to death: The spirit does but mean the breath: I know no more.
Página 132 - That nothing walks with aimless feet; That not one life shall be destroy'd, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete...
Página 175 - The very God! think, Abib; dost thou think? So, the All-Great, were the All-Loving too — So, through the thunder comes a human voice Saying, "O heart I made, a heart beats here! "Face, my hands fashioned, see it in myself! "Thou hast no power nor mayst conceive of mine, "But love I gave thee, with myself to love, "And thou must love me who have died for thee!
Página 251 - Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own ; Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind, And even with something of a Mother's mind, And no unworthy aim, The homely Nurse doth all she can To make her Foster-child, her Inmate Man, Forget the glories he hath known, And that imperial palace whence he came. Behold the child among his new-born blisses A six years...
Página 20 - IT is a beauteous evening, calm and free ; The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration...
Página 259 - Until they won her ; for indeed I knew Of no more subtle master under heaven Than is the maiden passion for a maid, Not only to keep down the base in man, But . teach high thought, and amiable words And courtliness, and the desire of fame, And love of truth, and all that makes a man.
Página 159 - There shall never be one lost good! What was, shall live as before; The evil is null, is naught, is silence implying sound; What was good shall be good, with, for evil, so much good more; On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.