Poems and Prose Writings, Volume 2Baker and Scribner, 1850 |
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... eternity . Not only has the past this life - giving power , by which , through the according action of heart and mind , the being grows up and expands with a just congruity throughout ; it also imparts stability to the character ; for ...
... eternity . Not only has the past this life - giving power , by which , through the according action of heart and mind , the being grows up and expands with a just congruity throughout ; it also imparts stability to the character ; for ...
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... eternity . Not only has the past this life - giving power , by which , through the according action of heart and mind , the being grows up and expands with a just congruity throughout ; it also imparts stability to the character ; for ...
... eternity . Not only has the past this life - giving power , by which , through the according action of heart and mind , the being grows up and expands with a just congruity throughout ; it also imparts stability to the character ; for ...
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... eternity . - If the past , in its spiritual constitution , has this character of durability , if it comes before us having put on the form of eternity , —its influence upon us must be to impart the permanent to our own characters . For ...
... eternity . - If the past , in its spiritual constitution , has this character of durability , if it comes before us having put on the form of eternity , —its influence upon us must be to impart the permanent to our own characters . For ...
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Richard Henry Dana. the calm awe of eternity in it , and man beholds and reveres . Eternity is present with him , not as an in- tellectual abstraction , but in the images of whatever has once been ; it spreads out visibly before the ...
Richard Henry Dana. the calm awe of eternity in it , and man beholds and reveres . Eternity is present with him , not as an in- tellectual abstraction , but in the images of whatever has once been ; it spreads out visibly before the ...
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... Eternity ! The past has touched them . To think of a power so at ease in its own strength and ever - during nature , as to take no concern for our opposition or favour , or even to heed that we exist , has something in it most humbling ...
... Eternity ! The past has touched them . To think of a power so at ease in its own strength and ever - during nature , as to take no concern for our opposition or favour , or even to heed that we exist , has something in it most humbling ...
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affections beauty become better bring called character Christian Cowper creature deism delight desert of sin earth Eloisa to Abelard emotions errour eternity evil Faerie Queene fancy faults fear feel Gaston de Blondeville genius give God's Hazlitt heart heaven humble images imagination imparts individual influences intellectual kind labour language less light living look mind moral moved Mysteries of Udolpho mysterious nature ness never North American Review object ourselves pass passages passions peculiar perhaps Peter Grimes pietism pleasure poem poet poetic poetry Pollok Pope present pride principle reason relations religious reverence RICHARD HENRY DANA Salmagundi satire scenes seems sense sentiment society sorrow soul speak spirit stand strong style Sylph talk taste things thou thought tion touch true truth turn verse words
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Page 15 - Sometime, we see a cloud that's dragonish, A vapour, sometime, like a bear, or lion, A tower'd citadel, a pendant rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees upon 't, that nod unto the world, And mock our eyes with air : thou hast seen these signs ; They are black vesper's pageants.
Page 69 - Although I joy in thee, I have no joy of this contract to-night : It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden, Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be, Ere one can say — It lightens.
Page 302 - In rural occupation there is nothing mean and debasing. It leads a man forth among scenes of natural grandeur and beauty ; it leaves him to the workings of his own mind, operated upon by the purest and most elevating of external influences. Such a man may be simple and rough, but he cannot be vulgar.
Page 137 - Who builds a church to God, and not to Fame, Will never mark the marble with his name : Go, search it there, where to be born and die, Of rich and poor makes all the history ; Enough, that Virtue fill'd the space between ; Prov'd by the ends of being, to have been.
Page 178 - Yet here for ever, ever must I stay ; Sad proof how well a lover can obey...
Page 139 - Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise him in thy sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime.
Page 205 - Smooth'd up with snow ; and, what is land, unknown, What water of the still unfrozen spring, In the loose marsh or solitary lake, Where the fresh fountain from the bottom boils.
Page 182 - What though no credit doubting wits may give? The fair and innocent shall still believe. Know then, unnumber'd spirits round thee fly, The light militia of the lower sky: These, though unseen, are ever on the wing, Hang o'er the Box, and hover round the Ring. Think what an equipage thou hast in air, And view with scorn two pages and a chair.
Page 184 - Her tongue bewitch'd as oddly as her eyes, Less wit than mimic, more a wit than wise ; Strange graces still, and stranger flights she had, Was just not ugly, and was just not mad ; Yet ne'er so sure our passion to create, As when she touch'd the brink of all we hate.
Page 344 - Embattled in her field ; and the humble shrub, And bush with frizzled hair implicit : last Rose, as in dance, the stately trees, and spread Their branches hung with copious fruit, or gemm'd Their blossoms : with high woods the hills were crown'd ; With tufts the valleys and each fountain side ; With borders long the rivers : that earth now Seem'd like to heaven, a seat where gods might dwell, Or wander with delight, and love to haunt Her sacred shades...