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Censura Literaria: Containing Titles, Abstracts, and Opinions of Old English ... - Page 51
by Sir Egerton Brydges - 1806
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Notes and Queries

1892 - 688 pages
...working« argue something within us above the trodden clod 1 I own myielf partial to auch ргооГя of those awful and important realities — a God that...immaterial and immortal nature — and a world of weal or wo beyond death and the grave." It is carions to find Coleridge, six years later, in his thoughtful...
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Contributions to Herography

1850 - 138 pages
...poetry. Tell me, my dear friend, to what can this be owing ? Are we a piece of machinery, which like the Eolian harp, passive takes the impression of the passing accident ? Or do these working* argue something within us above the trodden clod ? I own myself partial to such prooS>of those...
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The life and works of Robert Burns, ed. by R. Chambers, Volume 2

Robert Burns - 1851 - 332 pages
...my dear friend, to what can this be owing ? Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the , Kol ian harp, passive, takes the impression of the passing...immaterial and immortal nature— and a world of weal or wo beyond death and the grave ! BB ELEGY ON THE YEAR 1788. Jan. 1, 1789. For Lords or Kings I dinna...
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The kaleidoscope of anecdotes and aphorisms, collected by C. Sinclair

Catherine Sinclair - 1851 - 420 pages
...Tell me, my -1.ear friend, to what can this be owing ? are we a piece of machinery, which, like the Eolian harp, passive, takes the impression of the...workings argue something within us above the trodden clod ? — Burns' Letters. When the eminent physician, Dr. James Hope was about to commence his labours...
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The Modern British Essayists: Carlyle, Thomas. Critical and miscellaneous essays

1852 - 590 pages
...me, my dear friend, to what can this be owing! Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the .fiolian harp, passive, takes the impression of the passing...immaterial and immortal nature, and a world of weal or wo beyond death and the grave." Force and fineness of understanding are often spoken of as something...
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The Life and Works of Robert Burns, Volume 2

Robert Burns - 1852 - 336 pages
...me, my dear friend, to what can this be owing ? Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the JEolian harp, passive, takes the impression of the passing...partial to such proofs of those awful and important realities—a God that made all things—man's immaterial and immortal nature—and a world of weal...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays

Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1852 - 568 pages
...my dear friend, to what can this be owing 1 ' Are we a piece of machinery, which, like, the ^o'lian harp, passive, takes the impression of the passing...workings argue something within us above the trodden clod 1 I own myself partial to such proofs of those awful and important realities : a God that made all...
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The Modern British Essayists: Jeffrey, Francis. Contributions to the ...

1852 - 782 pages
...of machinery, which, like the Kolian harp, passive, takes the impression of the passing acci»lent ? Or do these workings argue something within us above the trodden clod?" — Vol. ii. pp. 195—197. To this we may add the following passage, as a part, indeed, of the same...
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Time, the Avenger

Anne Marsh-Caldwell - 1853 - 498 pages
...poetry. Tell me, my dear friend, to what can this be owing P Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the ^Eolian harp, passive, takes the impression of the...workings argue something within us above the trodden clod PI own myself partial to such proofs of those awful and important realities : a God that made all things,...
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Burns

Thomas Carlyle - 1854 - 98 pages
...me, my dear friend, to what can this be owing P Are we a piece of machinery, which, like the .ZEolian harp, passive, takes the impression of the passing...immaterial and immortal nature, and a world of weal or wo beyond death and the grave.' Force and fineness of understanding are often spoken of as something...
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