The Poetry of Life, Volumen2Carey, Lea, and Blanchard, 1835 |
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... reason is obvious . Love is a familiar feeling , associating itself with mankind in their daily walk , and en- tering into the ordinary and domestic scenes of life ; it therefore speaks in a language simple and familiar , scarcely ...
... reason is obvious . Love is a familiar feeling , associating itself with mankind in their daily walk , and en- tering into the ordinary and domestic scenes of life ; it therefore speaks in a language simple and familiar , scarcely ...
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... reason , too dazzling for religion , and too exquisite for repose . The following lines have great poetical beauty . " Ah ! fleeter far than fleetest storm or steed , " Or the death they bear , " The heart which tender thought clothes ...
... reason , too dazzling for religion , and too exquisite for repose . The following lines have great poetical beauty . " Ah ! fleeter far than fleetest storm or steed , " Or the death they bear , " The heart which tender thought clothes ...
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... reason ! how infinite in facul- ties in form , and moving , how express , and admirable in action , how like an angel ! in apprehension , how like a god ! The beauty of the world , the paragon of animals ! and yet to me , what is this ...
... reason ! how infinite in facul- ties in form , and moving , how express , and admirable in action , how like an angel ! in apprehension , how like a god ! The beauty of the world , the paragon of animals ! and yet to me , what is this ...
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... reason , nor calculate , nor detect the weakness of sophistry , because the mind in this state is incapable of action . The only faculty awakened in it , is that of receiving impressions ; a power considerably heightened and increased ...
... reason , nor calculate , nor detect the weakness of sophistry , because the mind in this state is incapable of action . The only faculty awakened in it , is that of receiving impressions ; a power considerably heightened and increased ...
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... reason alone govern the world ; but we have another law - the law of feeling , more potent in its influence upon the affairs of mankind ; and in this law the poet is often much better instructed . than the philosopher . The poet knows ...
... reason alone govern the world ; but we have another law - the law of feeling , more potent in its influence upon the affairs of mankind ; and in this law the poet is often much better instructed . than the philosopher . The poet knows ...
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Página 140 - Entreat me not to leave thee, Or to return from following after thee ; For whither thou goest, I will go ; And where thou lodgest, I will lodge ; Thy people shall be my people, And thy God, my God ; Where thou diest, will I die, And there will I be buried ; The Lord do so to me, And more also, If aught but death part thee and me.
Página 271 - And chiefly Thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for Thou know'st ; Thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread Dovelike satst brooding on the vast abyss, And madest it pregnant: What in me is dark, Illumine; what is low, raise and support...
Página 267 - He, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower. His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than Archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured...
Página 130 - And Cain talked with Abel his brother : and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.
Página 160 - There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun, who rideth upon the heaven in thy help, and in his excellency on the sky. The eternal God is thy refuge; and underneath are the everlasting arms; and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee, and shall, say, Destroy them.
Página 159 - When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
Página 277 - I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her siren daughters...
Página 270 - Heaven thou wert ; and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite.
Página 153 - And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.
Página 158 - Who is like unto thee, O Lord, among the Gods? who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?