Half-hours with the Best American Authors, Volume 2J.B. Lippincott, 1886 - American literature |
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... Nature's harmless and lovely forms , and showered its destroying petals all abroad — was it not tragic to find again the soft tints , the graceful shapes , the sweet perfumes , of the earth's immortal life ? Of them that planted and ...
... Nature's harmless and lovely forms , and showered its destroying petals all abroad — was it not tragic to find again the soft tints , the graceful shapes , the sweet perfumes , of the earth's immortal life ? Of them that planted and ...
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... nature filled her eyes , What poetry within them lay , - Those deep and tender twilight eyes , So full of meaning , pure and bright As if she yet stood in the light Of those oped gates of Paradise . And so we loved her more and more ...
... nature filled her eyes , What poetry within them lay , - Those deep and tender twilight eyes , So full of meaning , pure and bright As if she yet stood in the light Of those oped gates of Paradise . And so we loved her more and more ...
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... nature ripened too : We thought her lovely when she came , But she was holy , saintly now : Around her pale angelic brow We saw a slender ring of flame ! God's hand had taken away the seal That held the portals of her speech ; And oft ...
... nature ripened too : We thought her lovely when she came , But she was holy , saintly now : Around her pale angelic brow We saw a slender ring of flame ! God's hand had taken away the seal That held the portals of her speech ; And oft ...
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... nature to man , rather than that of one from man to nature . He was born in 1817 , and died in 1862. ] AT length we reached an elevation sufficiently bare to afford a view of the summit , still distant and blue , almost as if retreating ...
... nature to man , rather than that of one from man to nature . He was born in 1817 , and died in 1862. ] AT length we reached an elevation sufficiently bare to afford a view of the summit , still distant and blue , almost as if retreating ...
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... nature would anon work up , or work down , into the smiling and ver- dant plains and valleys of earth . This was an undone extremity of the globe ; as in lignite we see coal in the process of formation . At length I entered within the ...
... nature would anon work up , or work down , into the smiling and ver- dant plains and valleys of earth . This was an undone extremity of the globe ; as in lignite we see coal in the process of formation . At length I entered within the ...
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Page 432 - THERE is no flock, however watched and tended But one dead lamb is there ! There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair ! The air is full of farewells to the dying, And mournings for the dead...
Page 419 - Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
Page 187 - God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword...
Page 107 - In happy climes, the seat of innocence, Where nature guides and virtue rules, Where men shall not impose for truth and sense The pedantry of courts and schools: There shall be sung another golden age, The rise of empire and of arts, The good and great inspiring epic rage, The wisest heads and noblest hearts.
Page 434 - The wild-flowers who will stoop to number ? A few can touch the magic string, And noisy Fame is proud to win them : — Alas for those that never sing, But die with all their music in them I Nay, grieve not for the dead alone Whose song has told their hearts...
Page 436 - And all with pearl and ruby glowing Was the fair palace door, Through which came flowing, flowing, flowing And sparkling evermore, A troop of Echoes, whose sweet duty Was but to sing, In voices of surpassing beauty, The wit and wisdom of their king.
Page 147 - God's excellency, his wisdom, his purity and love, seemed to appear in every thing; in the sun, moon, and stars; in the clouds, and blue sky; in the grass, flowers, trees; in the water, and all nature; which used greatly to fix my mind. I often used to sit and view the moon for...
Page 417 - Sensible of this momentous truth, you have improved upon your first essay by the adoption of a Constitution of Government better calculated than your former for an intimate union and for the efficacious management of your common concerns.
Page 432 - ... lives. Not as a child shall we again behold her; For when with raptures wild In our embraces we again enfold her, She will not be a child; But a fair maiden, in her Father's mansion, Clothed with celestial grace ; And beautiful with all the soul's expansion Shall we behold her face. And though at times impetuous with emotion And anguish long suppressed, The swelling heart heaves moaning like the ocean, That cannot be at rest, — We will be patient, and assuage the feeling We may not wholly stay...
Page 160 - I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.