The Complete Works of Henry Kirke White, of Nottingham, Late of St. John's College, Cambridge: With an Account of His LifeE. Kearny, 1899 - 420 páginas |
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... determined to breed him up to the hosiery trade , the staple manufacture of his native place ; and at the age of fourteen he was placed in a stocking - loom , with the view , at some future period , of 6 HENRY KIRKE WHITE .
... determined to breed him up to the hosiery trade , the staple manufacture of his native place ; and at the age of fourteen he was placed in a stocking - loom , with the view , at some future period , of 6 HENRY KIRKE WHITE .
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... future period , of getting a situ- ation in a hosier's warehouse . During the time that he was thus employed , he might be said to be truly unhappy ; he went to his work with evident reluctance , and could not refrain from sometimes ...
... future period , of getting a situ- ation in a hosier's warehouse . During the time that he was thus employed , he might be said to be truly unhappy ; he went to his work with evident reluctance , and could not refrain from sometimes ...
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... future blessedness . He had supposed that morality of conduct was all the purity required ; but when he observed that purity of the very thoughts and intentions of the soul also was re- quisite , he was convinced of his deficiencies ...
... future blessedness . He had supposed that morality of conduct was all the purity required ; but when he observed that purity of the very thoughts and intentions of the soul also was re- quisite , he was convinced of his deficiencies ...
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... future being ? Think what strains of joy and tran- quillity fall on the ear of the saint who is just swooning into the arms of his Redeemer ; what fearful shapes and dreadful images of a disturbed conscience surround the sinner's bed ...
... future being ? Think what strains of joy and tran- quillity fall on the ear of the saint who is just swooning into the arms of his Redeemer ; what fearful shapes and dreadful images of a disturbed conscience surround the sinner's bed ...
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... gloomy way , Could throw a gleam of transitory day . * The Constellation Delphinus For authority for this appellation , vide Ovid's Fasti , B. xi . 113 . How gay , in youth , the flattering future seems OF H. K. WHITE . 57.
... gloomy way , Could throw a gleam of transitory day . * The Constellation Delphinus For authority for this appellation , vide Ovid's Fasti , B. xi . 113 . How gay , in youth , the flattering future seems OF H. K. WHITE . 57.
Términos y frases comunes
art thou bliss breast BROTHER NEVILLE calm Capel Lofft Catton charms Christian Clifton Grove dark DEAR NEVILLE death delight divine dost eternal fear feel gale genius give gloom Gondoline grace grave Greek H. K. WHITE hand happy harp hear heard heart Heaven Henry HENRY KIRKE WHITE holy Honington honors hope hour JOHN CHARLESWORTH John's Josiah Conder leave letter light live lonely lyre melancholy mind moon morning mortal mother mournful muse nature never night Nottingham o'er pain pale peace pensive pleasure poems poet prayer Pythagoras Quatorzain religion round scene sigh silent sing sleep smile solemn song sonnet soon sorrow soul sound spirit sublime sweet tear tell thee thine things thou thought throne tion vale verses virtues wandering wave weep wild winds Winteringham wish write written young youth
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Página 120 - Hark ! hark ! to God the chorus breaks, From every host, from every gem ; But one alone the Saviour speaks, It is the star of Bethlehem.
Página 120 - It was my guide, my light, my all, It bade my dark forebodings cease; And through the storm and danger's thrall, It led me to the port of peace. Now safely moored, my perils o'er, I'll sing, first in night's diadem, For ever and for evermore, The Star, the Star of Bethlehem.
Página 190 - And wing'd the shaft that quiver'd in his heart. Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel He nursed the pinion which...
Página 414 - ... there was not a grain of it left, on condition you were to be miserable for ever after ? Or, supposing that you might be happy for ever after, on condition you would be miserable till the whole mass of sand were thus annihilated at the rate of one sand in a thousand years: which of these two cases would you make your choice...
Página 76 - twill well contain The ideal flights of Madam Brain. No dungeon's walls, no cell confined, Can cramp the energies of mind ! I've friends, and 'twill contain them all ; And should it e'er become so cold That these it will no longer hold, No more may Heaven her blessings give, I shall not then be fit to live. TO AN EARLY PRIMROSE.
Página 24 - O'er Beauty's fall; Her praise resounds no more when mantled in her pall. The most beloved on earth Not long survives to-day; So music past is obsolete, And yet 'twas sweet, 'twas passing sweet, But now 'tis gone away. Thus does the shade In memory fade, When in forsaken tomb the form beloved is laid.
Página 11 - Come, thou shalt form my nosegay now, And I will bind thee round my brow ; And as I twine the mournful wreath, I'll weave a melancholy song: And sweet the strain shall be and long, The melody of death.
Página 23 - Still, rigid Nurse, thou art forgiven, For thou severe wert sent from heaven To wean me from the world ; To turn my eye From vanity, And point to scenes of bliss that never, never die.
Página 29 - ... to Cambridge, he was immediately as much distinguished for his classical knowledge as his genius : but the seeds of death were in him, and the place to which he had so long looked on with hope, served unhappily as a hothouse to ripen them...
Página 170 - Mortals ! be gladsome while ye have the power, And laugh and seize the glittering lapse of joy ; In time the bell will toll That warns ye to your graves.