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... experienced , through neglect and ignorance . The press would put them fairly beyond the reach of any new waste . But after the first half century of printing , when these manuscripts had been copied in type , and the public libraries ...
... experienced , through neglect and ignorance . The press would put them fairly beyond the reach of any new waste . But after the first half century of printing , when these manuscripts had been copied in type , and the public libraries ...
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... experienced up to a period comparatively recent . While disputants have arisen , among whom we may number profound and ... experience for us both , it is too plain , the materials are nought ; and I hope you will henceforth take warning ...
... experienced up to a period comparatively recent . While disputants have arisen , among whom we may number profound and ... experience for us both , it is too plain , the materials are nought ; and I hope you will henceforth take warning ...
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... experience ; and pleasure than the genius of any one man ever before afforded thus a much higher moral value is given to these tales than to his contemporaries - it is with no common interest that , in belongs to most other fictions ...
... experience ; and pleasure than the genius of any one man ever before afforded thus a much higher moral value is given to these tales than to his contemporaries - it is with no common interest that , in belongs to most other fictions ...
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... experience of the difficulties which beset a young literary aspirant , disposed him to ready sympathy . He was naturally a man of a kind and generous heart , and therefore , busied as he was , he lost no time in attending to Crabbe's ...
... experience of the difficulties which beset a young literary aspirant , disposed him to ready sympathy . He was naturally a man of a kind and generous heart , and therefore , busied as he was , he lost no time in attending to Crabbe's ...
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... experience has collected ; of that vast store of nutrition and of poison that the benevolence and the malignity of ages has accumulated , mixed in one vast and confused heap , the good and the bad , the ennobling and the degrading ...
... experience has collected ; of that vast store of nutrition and of poison that the benevolence and the malignity of ages has accumulated , mixed in one vast and confused heap , the good and the bad , the ennobling and the degrading ...
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Page 278 - Then suddenly, with timorous eye She fled to me and wept. She half enclosed me with her arms, She pressed me with a meek embrace; And bending back her head, looked up, And gazed upon my face. 'Twas partly love, and partly fear, And partly 'twas a bashful art, That I might rather feel, than see, The swelling of her heart.
Page 157 - When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me ; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tomb-stone, my heart melts with compassion ; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow...
Page 278 - twixt Now and Then! This breathing house not built with hands, This body that does me grievous wrong, O'er aery cliffs and glittering sands, How lightly then it flashed along : — Like those trim skiffs, unknown of yore, On winding lakes and rivers wide, That ask no aid of sail or oar, That fear no spite of wind or tide!
Page 278 - All impulses of soul and sense Had thrilled my guileless Genevieve; The music and the doleful tale, The rich and balmy eve; And hopes, and fears that kindle hope, An undistinguishable throng, And gentle wishes long subdued, Subdued and cherished long!
Page 279 - O'er wayward childhood would'st thou hold firm rule, And sun thee in the light of happy faces, Love, Hope, and Patience, these must be thy graces, And in thine own heart let them first keep school.
Page 180 - My manhood, long misled by wand'ring fires, Follow'd false lights; and, when their glimpse was gone, My pride struck out new sparkles of her own. Such was I, such by nature still I am; Be thine the glory, and be mine the shame. Good life be now my task: my doubts are done (What more could fright my faith, than three in one?) Can I believe eternal God could lie Disguis'd in mortal mold and infancy?
Page 52 - In climes beyond the solar road, Where shaggy forms o'er ice-built mountains roam, The Muse has broke the twilight gloom To cheer the shivering native's dull abode. And oft, beneath the odorous shade Of Chili's boundless forests laid, She deigns to hear the savage youth repeat In loose numbers wildly sweet Their feather-cinctured chiefs, and dusky loves. Her track, where'er the Goddess roves, Glory pursue and generous Shame, The...
Page 21 - All the faculties of Burns's mind were, as far as I could judge, equally vigorous ; and his predilection for poetry was rather the result of his own enthusiastic and impassioned temper, than of a genius exclusively adapted to that species of composition. From his conversation I should have pronounced him to be fitted to excel in whatever walk of ambition he had chosen to exert his abilities.
Page 11 - In this mansion he had for some time dwelt in peace and plenty, without danger to his person, by swallows from above, or to his palace, by brooms from below : when it was the pleasure of fortune to conduct...
Page 27 - Were I to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me during life, and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss, and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading.