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... thought occurred to namely , whether my faintheartedness me : -a doubt , would ever permit of my devoting my- self to the poetic profession which I had chosen . I meditated long upon this problem . And my final conclusion was as follows ...
... thought occurred to namely , whether my faintheartedness me : -a doubt , would ever permit of my devoting my- self to the poetic profession which I had chosen . I meditated long upon this problem . And my final conclusion was as follows ...
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... thought are not in any way to be distinguished from the literary work of contemporary Eng- land , and that where any diversity is discoverable it is but a local manifesta- tion which has had no permanent effect in stamping the hall ...
... thought are not in any way to be distinguished from the literary work of contemporary Eng- land , and that where any diversity is discoverable it is but a local manifesta- tion which has had no permanent effect in stamping the hall ...
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... thought . The more considerable families , it is true , living an almost feudal existence each in what became an ... thoughts of contemporary Europe touched them not at all ; the events which shook the foundations of the elder world were ...
... thought . The more considerable families , it is true , living an almost feudal existence each in what became an ... thoughts of contemporary Europe touched them not at all ; the events which shook the foundations of the elder world were ...
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... thought , but no work of importance which was even a fairly worthy imitation of the litera- ture of the mother country . The stand- ard of individual education was , it is true , far higher than in England , for actual illiteracy was ...
... thought , but no work of importance which was even a fairly worthy imitation of the litera- ture of the mother country . The stand- ard of individual education was , it is true , far higher than in England , for actual illiteracy was ...
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... thought and life survived though under a different name , and the com- munity at Concord really based its rules of life upon the Puritan ideal . Taken as they were from the very strongholds of the Puritan faith , cradled in many cases ...
... thought and life survived though under a different name , and the com- munity at Concord really based its rules of life upon the Puritan ideal . Taken as they were from the very strongholds of the Puritan faith , cradled in many cases ...
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Page 286 - O my love ! my wife ! Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty : Thou art not conquer'd ; beauty's ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, And death's pale flag is not advanced there.
Page 633 - Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. When all aloud the wind doth blow And coughing drowns the parson's saw And birds sit brooding in the snow And Marian's nose looks red and raw, When...
Page 457 - With darken'd eyelids, and their lashes yet From his late sobbing wet. And I, with moan, Kissing away his tears, left others of my own ; For, on a table drawn beside his head, He had put, within his reach, A box of counters and a...
Page 358 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
Page 655 - Is there a man, whose judgment clear Can others teach the course to steer, Yet runs, himself, life's mad career, Wild as the wave ; Here pause — and, through the starting tear, Survey this grave.
Page 287 - I am lord of the fowl and the brute. 0 solitude ! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face ? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place. 1 am out of humanity's reach, I must finish my journey alone, Never hear the sweet music of speech, — I start at the sound of my own.
Page 626 - It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation : neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there ; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there ; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures ; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.
Page 246 - Have you ever, when completely awake, had a vivid impression of seeing or being touched by a living being or inanimate object, or of hearing a voice; which impression, so far as you could discover, was not due to any external physical cause?
Page 626 - The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow ; the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place of rest.
Page 655 - O'er a' the ills o' life victorious! But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed; Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever; Or like the borealis race That flit ere you can point their place; Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid the storm. Nae man can tether time or tide; The hour approaches Tam maun ride; That hour, o...