Poems and Prose Writings, Volume 2Baker and Scribner, 1850 |
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... pleasures and distinctions of the city , the mind spread itself out over the beauties about it ; felt and nursed their truth ; perceived a fitness and kindly relation in all things ; not only gazed upon the lofty works of God , and ...
... pleasures and distinctions of the city , the mind spread itself out over the beauties about it ; felt and nursed their truth ; perceived a fitness and kindly relation in all things ; not only gazed upon the lofty works of God , and ...
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... pleasures . Mansions once Knew their own masters , and laborious hinds , Who had survived the father , served the son . " Along with such softening influences , there was much of the wild and adventurous starting up in the midst of the ...
... pleasures . Mansions once Knew their own masters , and laborious hinds , Who had survived the father , served the son . " Along with such softening influences , there was much of the wild and adventurous starting up in the midst of the ...
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... pleasure from a man , he must have that in him which , in form or matter , we had not been conscious of in ourselves , yet not so far the contrary of what is in us but that it shall touch some chord within us , and call out sounds which ...
... pleasure from a man , he must have that in him which , in form or matter , we had not been conscious of in ourselves , yet not so far the contrary of what is in us but that it shall touch some chord within us , and call out sounds which ...
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... man himself , out of convenience . and choice , to be taken down , remodelled , and put up again , at his good pleasure , —then will it have to us an origin like that from which we ourselves sprang , and LAW AS SUITED TO MAN . 59.
... man himself , out of convenience . and choice , to be taken down , remodelled , and put up again , at his good pleasure , —then will it have to us an origin like that from which we ourselves sprang , and LAW AS SUITED TO MAN . 59.
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... pleasure and ease ; and this makes him better comprehend the finite nature and the dependence of created man . There being something of permanency and distinct- ness in his condition , the mind is unconsciously modi- fied by it , and ...
... pleasure and ease ; and this makes him better comprehend the finite nature and the dependence of created man . There being something of permanency and distinct- ness in his condition , the mind is unconsciously modi- fied by it , and ...
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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...