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Page 5
... smooth turf beneath our feet ! The sorrel is spreading here its snowy bosom , and the wood - anemone opening its transparent flowers . Primroses enwreath the dark uprising root . The ivy climbs around the rugged trunk . We have passed ...
... smooth turf beneath our feet ! The sorrel is spreading here its snowy bosom , and the wood - anemone opening its transparent flowers . Primroses enwreath the dark uprising root . The ivy climbs around the rugged trunk . We have passed ...
Page 27
... smooth pasture , Does not merriment of spirit induce these several marks of animal joy ? Oh ! they were born for pleasure , and fulfil their destiny . Man alone opposes his fate . Man , equally created for felicity , spurns the blessing ...
... smooth pasture , Does not merriment of spirit induce these several marks of animal joy ? Oh ! they were born for pleasure , and fulfil their destiny . Man alone opposes his fate . Man , equally created for felicity , spurns the blessing ...
Page 37
... smooth thy angry brow , unfurl thy pouting lip : call not that a disappointment which is but a change of gratification . Thou hast lost indeed thy projected walk ; But thou hast gained many a precious occasion of social communion ...
... smooth thy angry brow , unfurl thy pouting lip : call not that a disappointment which is but a change of gratification . Thou hast lost indeed thy projected walk ; But thou hast gained many a precious occasion of social communion ...
Page 69
... smooth green turf , lighted by heaven's own ever - living lamp , and overroofed by pure celestial ether . Or be it the tasteful hall , illuminated by blazing lamps , and crystal chande- liers , sparkling in the rays they bear . The smooth ...
... smooth green turf , lighted by heaven's own ever - living lamp , and overroofed by pure celestial ether . Or be it the tasteful hall , illuminated by blazing lamps , and crystal chande- liers , sparkling in the rays they bear . The smooth ...
Page 71
... smooth surface of the water , dimples with airy and increasing rings its yielding super- fice .. Oh , true ! joy is infectious , and gene- rates itself , even as sorrow does . Then check the sigh , if not to save thyself , to save thy ...
... smooth surface of the water , dimples with airy and increasing rings its yielding super- fice .. Oh , true ! joy is infectious , and gene- rates itself , even as sorrow does . Then check the sigh , if not to save thyself , to save thy ...
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Page 99 - Happy the man - and happy he alone He who can call today his own, He who, secure within, can say 'Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today: Be fair or foul or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed in spite of Fate are mine: Not Heaven itself upon the Past has power, But what has been has been, and I have had my hour.
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