Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumen2Carey and Hart, 1842 |
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... nature may behold some of her most beautiful and sublimest forms , fixed permanently before his gaze - that mental gaze , which , when the bodily eye is shut , or its range limited , continues to behold all creation in boundles reve ...
... nature may behold some of her most beautiful and sublimest forms , fixed permanently before his gaze - that mental gaze , which , when the bodily eye is shut , or its range limited , continues to behold all creation in boundles reve ...
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... nature , even sometimes giving to them all " The glory and the freshness of a dream ! " Ponder on the idea - the emotion of purity - and how finely soul - blent is the delight imagination feels in a bright hush of new - fallen snow ...
... nature , even sometimes giving to them all " The glory and the freshness of a dream ! " Ponder on the idea - the emotion of purity - and how finely soul - blent is the delight imagination feels in a bright hush of new - fallen snow ...
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... nature are for a while out of sight , and out of mind . That white silence shed by heaven over earth carries with it , far and wide , the pure peace of another region — almost another life . No image is there to tell of this restless ...
... nature are for a while out of sight , and out of mind . That white silence shed by heaven over earth carries with it , far and wide , the pure peace of another region — almost another life . No image is there to tell of this restless ...
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... nature prompts ; -and her own parents wondered whence they came in her simplicity , when first they looked upon her kneeling in an unbidden prayer . As one mild week of vernal sunshine covers the braes with primroses , so shone with ...
... nature prompts ; -and her own parents wondered whence they came in her simplicity , when first they looked upon her kneeling in an unbidden prayer . As one mild week of vernal sunshine covers the braes with primroses , so shone with ...
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... nature loved her in return - that they were dear to each other in their innocence and that the very sunshine , in motion or in rest , was ready to come at the bidding of her smiles . Skilful those small white hands of hers among the ...
... nature loved her in return - that they were dear to each other in their innocence and that the very sunshine , in motion or in rest , was ready to come at the bidding of her smiles . Skilful those small white hands of hers among the ...
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Página 10 - Where through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault The pealing anthem swells the note of praise.
Página 21 - The Lord giveth, and the Lord ' taketh away ; blessed be the name of the Lord.
Página 356 - MARY YE banks and braes and streams around The castle o' Montgomery, Green be your woods, and fair your flowers, Your waters never drumlie! There simmer first unfauld her robes, And there the langest tarry; For there I took the last fareweel O
Página 357 - O pale, pale now, those rosy lips, I aft hae kiss'd sae fondly ! And closed for aye the sparkling glance That dwelt on me sae kindly : And mouldering now in silent dust That heart that lo'ed me dearly ! But still within my bosom's core Shall live my Highland Mary.
Página 352 - Let him follow me! By Oppression's woes and pains! By your sons in servile chains! We will drain our dearest veins, But they shall be free! •Lay the proud usurpers low ! Tyrants fall in every foe ! Liberty's in every blow! Let us do or die...
Página 133 - Blessings be with them — and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares, The Poets, who on earth have made us Heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays ! Oh ! might my name be numbered among theirs, Then gladly would I end my mortal days.
Página 25 - Let down the flood, and half dissolved by day, Rustles no more; but to the sedgy bank Fast grows, or gathers round the pointed stone, A crystal pavement, by the breath of Heaven Cemented firm ; till, seized from shore to shore, The whole imprison'd river growls below.
Página 354 - For a' that, and a' that, Their dignities, and a' that, The pith o' sense and pride o' worth Are higher ranks than a' that. Then let us pray that come it may — As come it will for a' that — That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth. May bear the gree, and a' that. For a' that, and a' that, It's comin' yet, for a' that, — That man to man, the warld o'er.
Página 29 - Beneath the formless wild; but wanders on From hill to dale, still more and more astray : Impatient flouncing through the drifted heaps, Stung with the thoughts of home; the thoughts of home Rush on his nerves> and call their vigour forth In many a vain attempt.
Página 355 - THEIR groves o' sweet myrtle let foreign lands reckon, Where bright-beaming summers exalt the perfume ; Far dearer to me yon lone glen o' green breckan, Wi' the burn stealing under the lang yellow broom. Far dearer to me are yon humble broom bowers, Where the blue-bell and gowan lurk lowly unseen : For there, lightly tripping amang the wild flowers, A listening the linnet, aft wanders my Jean. Tho...