Life Without and Life Within: Or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and PoemsRoberts, 1895 - 424 páginas |
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animal magnetism aspirations Balzac beauty Beethoven believe better bless brother CAPITAL PUNISHMENT Carlyle character child church D'Israeli death deep delight earth expression faith fancy Faust fear feel felt fire flowers genius give glow Goethe grace hand happy harmony heart heaven holy honor hope human intellectual Iphigenia Klopstock LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN Le Père Goriot learned less light live look MARGARET FULLER Mariana Mary Lamb means mind nation nature never noble Oliver Cromwell ourselves passed person PHILIP VAN ARTEVELDE poem poet poor present pure rich seemed seen selfish slaves smile somnambulist sorrow soul speak spirit stars sweet sympathy taste thee things thou thought tion tree true truth verdict of posterity voice wise wish woman words worthy writer youth
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Página 37 - Werd' ich zum Augenblicke sagen: Verweile doch! du bist so schön! Dann magst du mich in Fesseln schlagen, Dann will ich gern zu Grunde gehn!
Página 184 - I am persuaded that this is a righteous judgment of God upon these barbarous wretches, who have imbrued their hands in so much innocent blood ; and that it will tend to prevent the effusion of blood for the future. Which are the satisfactory grounds to such actions, which otherwise cannot but work remorse and regret.
Página 90 - TO ONE IN PARADISE. THOU wast that all to me, love, For which my soul did pine — A green isle in the sea, love, A fountain and a shrine, All wreathed with fairy fruits and flowers, And all the flowers were mine. Ah, dream too bright to last ! Ah, starry Hope ! that didst arise But to be overcast ! A voice from out the Future cries, " On ! on ! " — but o'er the Past (Dim gulf !) my spirit hovering lies Mute, motionless, aghast ! For, alas ! alas ! with me The light of Life is o'er f
Página 404 - And when they saw him, they were amazed : and his mother said unto him, Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us ? behold thy father and I have sought thee sorrowing. And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me ? wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business?
Página 183 - I forbade them to spare any that were in arms in the town ; and, I think, that night they put to the sword about two thousand men...
Página 186 - He was a strong man," so intimates Charles Harvey, who knew him: "in the dark perils of war, in the high places of the field, hope shone in him like a pillar of fire, when it had gone out in all the others.
Página 46 - That hangs his head, and a' that! The coward slave, we pass him by, We dare be poor for a' that! For a' that, and a' that, Our toils obscure, and a' that; The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The Man's the gowd for a
Página 183 - These, being summoned to yield to mercy, refused. Whereupon I ordered the steeple of St. Peter's Church to be fired, when one of them was heard to say in the midst of the flames : " God damn me, God confound me : I burn, I burn.
Página 188 - It had all the evidences of an absolute victory obtained by the Lord's blessing upon the godly party principally. We never charged but we routed the enemy. The left wing, which I commanded, being our own horse, saving a few Scots in our rear, beat all the prince's horse. God make them as stubble to our swords. We charged their regiments of foot with our horse, and routed all we charged. The particulars I cannot relate now ; but I believe, of twenty thousand, the prince hath not four thousand left....
Página 125 - I did not, when a slave, understand the deep meaning of those rude and apparently incoherent songs. I was myself within the circle ; so that I neither saw nor heard as those without might see and hear. They told a tale of woe which was then altogether beyond my feeble comprehension...