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... voice of imperturbable gravity , " it were pre- sumption in me to read Arabic , or to understand wit . How- beit , if your Ladyship will take your state , and assemble around you your privy council of beauty and fashion , I will essay ...
... voice of imperturbable gravity , " it were pre- sumption in me to read Arabic , or to understand wit . How- beit , if your Ladyship will take your state , and assemble around you your privy council of beauty and fashion , I will essay ...
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... voice ; 66 you shall call nobody but me , Vyvyan Joyeuse ! " And immediately a whimsical apparition leaped with an Opera step into the front of the battalia ; a tall thin youth , with long sallow features , thick brown hair curled ...
... voice ; 66 you shall call nobody but me , Vyvyan Joyeuse ! " And immediately a whimsical apparition leaped with an Opera step into the front of the battalia ; a tall thin youth , with long sallow features , thick brown hair curled ...
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... voice ; " but his buffoonery shall be pardoned , and his bidding shall be done . " And Julia Vernon stept lightly for- ward ; a slight , childish figure , with loose raven ringlets dancing upon her neck , eyes of the most prying jet ...
... voice ; " but his buffoonery shall be pardoned , and his bidding shall be done . " And Julia Vernon stept lightly for- ward ; a slight , childish figure , with loose raven ringlets dancing upon her neck , eyes of the most prying jet ...
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... voice of nature . They belong to the class of beings described by the poet , in his Ode to Duty : 66 " There are who ask not if thine eye Be on them ; who , in love and truth , Where no misgiving is , rely Upon the genial sense of youth ...
... voice of nature . They belong to the class of beings described by the poet , in his Ode to Duty : 66 " There are who ask not if thine eye Be on them ; who , in love and truth , Where no misgiving is , rely Upon the genial sense of youth ...
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... voice , so sweet and gentle , the serenity of her face , and the meekness of her manner , as she took her seat upon a stool not far from the door , had an effect upon old Daniel Craig , and he bade her come forward , and take a chair ...
... voice , so sweet and gentle , the serenity of her face , and the meekness of her manner , as she took her seat upon a stool not far from the door , had an effect upon old Daniel Craig , and he bade her come forward , and take a chair ...
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Page 111 - ALMIGHTY God, with whom do live the spirits of them that depart hence in the Lord, and with whom the souls of the faithful, after they are delivered from the burden of the flesh, are in joy and felicity...
Page 6 - Is lightened ; that serene and blessed mood In which the affections gently lead us on, Until the breath of this corporeal frame, And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul : While with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.
Page 363 - This should have been a noble creature: he Hath all the energy which would have made A goodly frame of glorious elements, Had they been wisely mingled; as it is, It is an awful chaos — light and darkness, And mind and dust, and passions and pure thoughts, Mix'd, and contending without end or order, All dormant or destructive.
Page 361 - My haunt, and the main region of my song. —Beauty— a living Presence of the earth, Surpassing the most fair ideal Forms Which craft of delicate Spirits hath composed From earth's materials— waits upon my steps; Pitches her tents before me as I move, An hourly neighbour.
Page 21 - There are who ask not if thine eye Be on them; who, in love and truth, Where no misgiving is, rely Upon the genial sense of youth : Glad Hearts! without reproach or blot Who do thy work, and know it not: Oh!
Page 383 - And ever against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running; Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony: That Orpheus...
Page 111 - ... that it may please thee, of thy gracious goodness, shortly to accomplish the number of thine elect, and to hasten thy kingdom ; that we, with all those that are departed in the true faith of thy holy Name, may have our perfect consummation and bliss, both in body and soul, in thy eternal and everlasting glory; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Page 364 - But thou, of temples old, or altars new, Standest alone — with nothing like to thee — Worthiest of God, the holy and the true. Since Zion's desolation, when that He Forsook his former city, what could be, Of earthly structures, in his honour piled, Of a sublimer aspect ? Majesty, Power, Glory, Strength, and Beauty, all are aisled In this eternal ark of worship undefiled.
Page 364 - Could he have kept his spirit to that flight He had been happy; but this clay will sink Its spark immortal, envying it the light To which it mounts, as if to break the link That keeps us from yon heaven which woos us to its brink.
Page 110 - My heart was hot within me, and while I was thus musing the fire kindled : and at the last I...