Colloquies, desultory and diverse, but chiefly upon poetry and poets. [by C.L. Lordan]. |
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... hands of the chronologer . The age has developed lineaments which , however , are British , or , in other words , are bold , vigorous , and philanthropic , and these will find an " habitation and a name " in the imperishable page ; -as ...
... hands of the chronologer . The age has developed lineaments which , however , are British , or , in other words , are bold , vigorous , and philanthropic , and these will find an " habitation and a name " in the imperishable page ; -as ...
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... hand , on eye and ear , we saw in the Ancient's presence no absolute impedi- ment to all communication . - So we continued to exchange dispatches , till the conspiracy demanded a dénouement , and we resolved - she , of course , re ...
... hand , on eye and ear , we saw in the Ancient's presence no absolute impedi- ment to all communication . - So we continued to exchange dispatches , till the conspiracy demanded a dénouement , and we resolved - she , of course , re ...
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... hand than that of Pope of Rome in direst poverty ! Much less to be expected then , from such matriculation , is any premature penchant for those interesting studies and that agreeable discipline adjudged by Lord Eldon to be essential to ...
... hand than that of Pope of Rome in direst poverty ! Much less to be expected then , from such matriculation , is any premature penchant for those interesting studies and that agreeable discipline adjudged by Lord Eldon to be essential to ...
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... hand than mine presumes to meddle with his provision ; and the Queen Dowager - near my honored grandsire's por- trait - even she does despite to a hallowed Name , by signs of unamiable temper , if other than I prepare her royal board ...
... hand than mine presumes to meddle with his provision ; and the Queen Dowager - near my honored grandsire's por- trait - even she does despite to a hallowed Name , by signs of unamiable temper , if other than I prepare her royal board ...
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... hand , and swept by you scatheless— horrified but unhurt . I have never before recog- nised so forcibly as now I do , in this reminiscence , the strength of this sentence of Madame de Stael : * — " Tant d'individus traversent l ...
... hand , and swept by you scatheless— horrified but unhurt . I have never before recog- nised so forcibly as now I do , in this reminiscence , the strength of this sentence of Madame de Stael : * — " Tant d'individus traversent l ...
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Page 201 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty, thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair; thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens, To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Page 192 - To shake thy senate, and from heights sublime Of patriot eloquence to flash down fire Upon thy foes, was never meant my task ; But I can feel thy fortunes, and partake Thy joys and sorrows with as true a heart As any thunderer there.
Page 153 - We rest. — A dream has power to poison sleep ; We rise. — One wandering thought pollutes the day; We feel, conceive or reason, laugh or weep ; Embrace fond woe, or cast our cares away...
Page 219 - I have not loved the world, nor the world me ; I have not flatter'd its rank breath, nor bow'd To its idolatries a patient knee, — Nor coin'd my cheek to smiles, — nor cried aloud In worship of an echo ; in the crowd They could not deem me one of such ; I stood Among them, but not of them ; in a shroud Of thoughts which were not their thoughts, and still could, Had I not filed' my mind, which thus itself subdued.
Page 191 - And drunk delight of battle with my peers, Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy. I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro' Gleams that untravell'd world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move.
Page 14 - Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years ; few and evil have the days of the years of my life been...
Page 177 - tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep; No more ; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep...
Page 86 - Clasp me a little longer, on the brink Of fate ! while I can feel thy dear caress ; And, when this heart hath ceased to beat — oh! think, And let it mitigate thy woe's excess, That thou hast been to me all tenderness, And friend to more than human friendship just Oh ! by that retrospect of happiness, And by the hopes of an immortal trust, God shall assuage thy pangs — when I am laid in dust ! xxx.
Page 38 - May plume her feathers and let grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd...
Page 179 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod...