Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumen2Carey and Hart, 1842 |
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... strong as Samson's ribs , silken - soft to wise submission , but to vain impatience galling as cankered wound that keeps ceaselessly eating into the bone . But while our bodily feet are thus bound by an inevitable and inexorable law ...
... strong as Samson's ribs , silken - soft to wise submission , but to vain impatience galling as cankered wound that keeps ceaselessly eating into the bone . But while our bodily feet are thus bound by an inevitable and inexorable law ...
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John Wilson. burden of all grovelling thoughts , and strong in its spi- rituality , it exults to soar 66 Beyond this visible diurnal sphere , " nearing and nearing the native region of its own incom- prehensible being ! Now touching , we ...
John Wilson. burden of all grovelling thoughts , and strong in its spi- rituality , it exults to soar 66 Beyond this visible diurnal sphere , " nearing and nearing the native region of its own incom- prehensible being ! Now touching , we ...
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... strong fit subsides , blackens into despair ! Oh ! what pain doubtless was in the heart of the elegiac poet of old , when he sighed over the transitory beauty of flowers , - " Quam brevis- gratia florum ! " — -an imperfect remembrance ...
... strong fit subsides , blackens into despair ! Oh ! what pain doubtless was in the heart of the elegiac poet of old , when he sighed over the transitory beauty of flowers , - " Quam brevis- gratia florum ! " — -an imperfect remembrance ...
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... strong . It would be the height of presumption in any man , though beautiful as Moore thought Byron , to attempt it . If so , then " The godlike face of man avails him not , " is , under these circumstances , ludicrous . Still more so ...
... strong . It would be the height of presumption in any man , though beautiful as Moore thought Byron , to attempt it . If so , then " The godlike face of man avails him not , " is , under these circumstances , ludicrous . Still more so ...
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... strong as a rock of the ocean that stems A thousand wild waves on the shore . Through the perils of chance and the scowl of disdain , Let thy front be unalter'd , thy courage elate ; Yea ! even the name we have worshipp'd in vain Shall ...
... strong as a rock of the ocean that stems A thousand wild waves on the shore . Through the perils of chance and the scowl of disdain , Let thy front be unalter'd , thy courage elate ; Yea ! even the name we have worshipp'd in vain Shall ...
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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...