Dreams and Reveries of a Quiet Man: Consisting of the Little Genius, and Other Essays, Volume 2J. & J. Harper, 1832 |
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... behold- One solitary resting place , Nor bring me back one branch of grace . " I was cast upon the world when about seventeen years of age , and possessing a vast share of vanity , which , by the bye , is the staff of an author's life ...
... behold- One solitary resting place , Nor bring me back one branch of grace . " I was cast upon the world when about seventeen years of age , and possessing a vast share of vanity , which , by the bye , is the staff of an author's life ...
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... behold fragments of trees , walls , rivers , and houses turned upside down , in grotesque groups , and colored with strange hues . Set a nervous , clear headed person to transact business with one of this sort , and he will almost go ...
... behold fragments of trees , walls , rivers , and houses turned upside down , in grotesque groups , and colored with strange hues . Set a nervous , clear headed person to transact business with one of this sort , and he will almost go ...
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... behold two bantams engaged in a fierce and chivalric combat upon some abstract point of honor ? Even so do the enlightened and sensible brethren of the frater- nity to which I belong pass away their time - instruct the community ...
... behold two bantams engaged in a fierce and chivalric combat upon some abstract point of honor ? Even so do the enlightened and sensible brethren of the frater- nity to which I belong pass away their time - instruct the community ...
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... behold a more enlightened being availing himself of this refined source of amusement ; when the apparently useless object is opened , and the eyes rest upon it , mark how it arrests their light and wan- dering flashes . Hour after hour ...
... behold a more enlightened being availing himself of this refined source of amusement ; when the apparently useless object is opened , and the eyes rest upon it , mark how it arrests their light and wan- dering flashes . Hour after hour ...
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... behold the smooth and tapering branches spread abroad , and the green leaves burst forth ; then flowers of fine coloring , and enriching the air with their balmy breath ; and , to crown the perfection of this common piece of nature's ...
... behold the smooth and tapering branches spread abroad , and the green leaves burst forth ; then flowers of fine coloring , and enriching the air with their balmy breath ; and , to crown the perfection of this common piece of nature's ...
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Page 70 - I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul; freeze thy young blood ; Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres; Thy knotted and combined locks to part, And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine : But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood : — List, list, O list!
Page 195 - But rise; let us no more contend, nor blame Each other, blamed enough elsewhere; but strive, In offices of love, how we may lighten Each other's burden, in our share of woe...
Page 7 - Who hung with woods yon mountain's sultry brow ? From the dry rock who bade the waters flow ? Not to the skies in useless columns tost...
Page 98 - Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high Of Providence, Foreknowledge, Will, and Fate — Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute — And found no end, in wandering mazes lost.
Page 192 - Cowards die many times before their deaths ; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear ; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come, when it will come.
Page 158 - My only strength and stay. Forlorn of thee, Whither shall I betake me, where subsist? While yet we live, scarce one short hour perhaps, Between us two let there be peace; both joining, As join'd in injuries, one enmity Against a foe by doom express assign'd us, That cruel serpent.
Page 188 - That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge In the Arctic sky, and from his horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war.
Page 89 - It must not be; there is no power in Venice Can alter a decree established: 'Twill be recorded for a precedent; And many an error, by the same example, Will rush into the state: it cannot be.
Page 153 - And understood not that a grateful mind By owing owes not, but still pays, at once Indebted and discharged...
Page 3 - The young who labour, and the old who rest. Is any sick ? the Man of Ross relieves, Prescribes, attends, the medicine makes and gives.