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... poetical in the continuance of the same laws , dress , manners , and customs through thirty centuries in the east , as there is something irritating and prosaic in the arrogant assumption of superiority with which sciolists of the ...
... poetical in the continuance of the same laws , dress , manners , and customs through thirty centuries in the east , as there is something irritating and prosaic in the arrogant assumption of superiority with which sciolists of the ...
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... poetical beauty . However , the argument against atheism from natural theology is certainly irresistible as far as it goes it can hardly be put in a more pithy and convincing shape than the following : - " Dans la société du Baron d ...
... poetical beauty . However , the argument against atheism from natural theology is certainly irresistible as far as it goes it can hardly be put in a more pithy and convincing shape than the following : - " Dans la société du Baron d ...
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... poetical excellence . Add to these an immense variety of religious prose publications , circulated in all directions , written in the most grovelling style , and totally devoid of literary merit , which indeed the authors sometimes take ...
... poetical excellence . Add to these an immense variety of religious prose publications , circulated in all directions , written in the most grovelling style , and totally devoid of literary merit , which indeed the authors sometimes take ...
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... poetical age . It would be a strange anomaly in the history of mankind , if it were the fact , that an age , so full of experiment , so fertile in every species of moral phenomena , throwing light over so many of the darker mysteries of ...
... poetical age . It would be a strange anomaly in the history of mankind , if it were the fact , that an age , so full of experiment , so fertile in every species of moral phenomena , throwing light over so many of the darker mysteries of ...
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... poetical only so far as it is beautiful , as it may trench upon what the Greeks called " the hateful , " which ... poetically , calls Helen " the spirit of a breathless calm . " * Again , OF POETRY . 77.
... poetical only so far as it is beautiful , as it may trench upon what the Greeks called " the hateful , " which ... poetically , calls Helen " the spirit of a breathless calm . " * Again , OF POETRY . 77.
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Page 171 - HE that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be, shall never want attentive and favourable hearers, because they know the manifold defects whereunto every kind of regiment is subject, but the secret lets and difficulties, which in public proceedings are innumerable and inevitable, they have not ordinarily the judgment to consider...
Page 87 - My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard. "Thus fares it still in our decay: And yet the wiser mind Mourns less for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind.
Page 99 - But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover! A savage place! as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover!
Page 91 - It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the Sea: Listen!
Page 145 - Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.
Page 144 - I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth...
Page 95 - There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore; — Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day, The things which I have seen I now can see no more.
Page 94 - Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep! The river glideth at his own sweet will: Dear God! the very houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is lying still!
Page 85 - Methinks I should know you, and know this man; Yet I am doubtful: for I am mainly ignorant What place this is; and all the skill I have Remembers not these garments; nor I know not Where I did lodge last night.
Page 119 - I know not who may conquer : if I could Have such a prescience, it should be no bar To this my plain, sworn, downright detestation Of every despotism in every nation.