Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature of the United KingdomJ. Murray, 1899 - English literature |
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... friends . " The bilious temperament was originally so called from a supposed redundancy of bile in the system . It need scarcely be said that its strongly marked physical and mental characteristics have no neces- sary connection with ...
... friends . " The bilious temperament was originally so called from a supposed redundancy of bile in the system . It need scarcely be said that its strongly marked physical and mental characteristics have no neces- sary connection with ...
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... friend- ships , and are heroically faithful , and when en- dowed with a sense of humour they present an admirable character . They have furnished more martyrs than all other types together . With re- gard to martyrdom , that strange ...
... friend- ships , and are heroically faithful , and when en- dowed with a sense of humour they present an admirable character . They have furnished more martyrs than all other types together . With re- gard to martyrdom , that strange ...
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... friends or receiving one themselves . There are others of a more nervous temperament , in whom logic and idealism rapidly develop to a far higher degree than is generally realised , and they experience severe the age and country in ...
... friends or receiving one themselves . There are others of a more nervous temperament , in whom logic and idealism rapidly develop to a far higher degree than is generally realised , and they experience severe the age and country in ...
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... friends or receiving one themselves . There are others of a more nervous temperament , in whom logic and idealism rapidly develop to a far higher degree than is generally realised , and they experience severe " ; shocks as they are ...
... friends or receiving one themselves . There are others of a more nervous temperament , in whom logic and idealism rapidly develop to a far higher degree than is generally realised , and they experience severe " ; shocks as they are ...
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... friends and neigh- bours in Somersetshire just one hundred years ago . It is possible that there are men and women still alive who might , if they had been born in those parts , be able to tell us , not how those young poets looked , or ...
... friends and neigh- bours in Somersetshire just one hundred years ago . It is possible that there are men and women still alive who might , if they had been born in those parts , be able to tell us , not how those young poets looked , or ...
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Page 90 - Then kneeling down, to Heaven's Eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband prays: Hope "springs exulting on triumphant wing," That thus they all shall meet in future days: There, ever bask in uncreated rays, No more to sigh, or shed the bitter tear, Together hymning their Creator's praise, In such society, yet still more dear; While circling time moves round in an eternal sphere...
Page 109 - And bade me creep past. No! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers The heroes of old, Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrears Of pain, darkness, and cold. For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave, The black minute 's at end, And the elements...
Page 106 - tis a dull and endless strife: Come, hear the woodland linnet, How sweet his music! on my life, There's more of wisdom in it. And hark! how blithe the throstle sings! He, too, is no mean preacher: Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your Teacher.
Page 83 - These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air, And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind: we are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep..
Page 96 - Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise; But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings; Blank misgivings of a Creature Moving about in worlds not realized.
Page 222 - Bright Star! would I were steadfast as thou art — Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like Nature's patient, sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores...
Page 97 - Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower ; We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind ; In the primal sympathy Which having been must ever be ; In the soothing thoughts that spring Out of human suffering ; In the faith that looks through death, In years that bring the philosophic mind.
Page 91 - tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord its various tone, Each spring its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it ; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
Page 106 - Wordsworth, on the other hand, was to propose to himself as his object, to give the charm of novelty to things of every day, and to excite a feeling analogous to the supernatural, by awakening the mind's attention from the lethargy of custom, and directing it to the loveliness and the wonders of the world before us...
Page 37 - At her feet he bowed he fell, he lay down at her feet he bowed, he fell where he bowed, there he fell down dead...