Essays and PoemsCharles C. Little and James Brown, 1839 - 175 pages |
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... unconscious work of God . By doing this I shall show that there is a higher action than that we witness in him ; where the will has not been borne down and drawn along by the mind's own original impulse ; but , though capable of ...
... unconscious work of God . By doing this I shall show that there is a higher action than that we witness in him ; where the will has not been borne down and drawn along by the mind's own original impulse ; but , though capable of ...
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... unconsciously shown ; their ruling motive will be a yielding to the hallowed impulses to action ; the permanent state of their souls , eternal life . Scott's " Peo- There is a desire of mental activity felt by such a mind as ...
... unconsciously shown ; their ruling motive will be a yielding to the hallowed impulses to action ; the permanent state of their souls , eternal life . Scott's " Peo- There is a desire of mental activity felt by such a mind as ...
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... unconscious of the beautiful banks it has overflowed with fertility . With most men it requires a continual effort of the will to prevent the objects which were only intended to give exercise to their souls from detaining them , as it ...
... unconscious of the beautiful banks it has overflowed with fertility . With most men it requires a continual effort of the will to prevent the objects which were only intended to give exercise to their souls from detaining them , as it ...
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... unconsciously lays bare the texture of his own mind . Claudio regrets not , as we should suppose he would , the loss of his sister , or the good things of this world , nor feels a doubt of another ; but all his horrors are but the ...
... unconsciously lays bare the texture of his own mind . Claudio regrets not , as we should suppose he would , the loss of his sister , or the good things of this world , nor feels a doubt of another ; but all his horrors are but the ...
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... mind is ever revealing to us more than we have before known in whatever direction applied , for this alone unconsciously moves in its appointed path ; the only human actor in the drama of existence , save him 52 SHAKSPEARE .
... mind is ever revealing to us more than we have before known in whatever direction applied , for this alone unconsciously moves in its appointed path ; the only human actor in the drama of existence , save him 52 SHAKSPEARE .
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Page 78 - I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this.
Page 46 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, ^ That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
Page 104 - Our revels now are ended... These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air, And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind: we are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep..
Page 92 - O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown ! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword : The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observed of all observers, quite, quite down!
Page 59 - The homely nurse doth all she can To make her foster-child, her inmate, Man, Forget the glories he hath known, And that imperial palace whence he came. Behold the Child among his new-born blisses, A six years
Page 92 - Makes mouths at the invisible event, Exposing what is mortal and unsure To all that fortune, death and danger dare, Even for an egg-shell.
Page 72 - 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 ! if through confidence misplaced They fail, thy saving arms, dread Power!
Page 24 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale or piny mountain, Or forest, by slow stream or pebbly spring, Or chasms, and watery depths ; all these have vanished ; They live no longer in the faith of reason...
Page 34 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Page 46 - 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...