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... ment which poetic feeling affords . In other cases of marketable produce , the supply is found to keep pace with the demand , ex- cept when physical causes operate against it . If the poets of the present day have " written themselves ...
... ment which poetic feeling affords . In other cases of marketable produce , the supply is found to keep pace with the demand , ex- cept when physical causes operate against it . If the poets of the present day have " written themselves ...
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... ment . Mystery offers to the mind this kind of liberty . We dwell the longest upon that If we are generally agreed in our notions face which reveals a great deal , but not all of the beauty or deformity of the human of what the thoughts ...
... ment . Mystery offers to the mind this kind of liberty . We dwell the longest upon that If we are generally agreed in our notions face which reveals a great deal , but not all of the beauty or deformity of the human of what the thoughts ...
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... ment , and impregnating the whole atmos- phere of the garden with its sweetness , has been sung and celebrated by so many poets , that our associations are with their numbers , rather than with any intrinsic quality in the flower itself ...
... ment , and impregnating the whole atmos- phere of the garden with its sweetness , has been sung and celebrated by so many poets , that our associations are with their numbers , rather than with any intrinsic quality in the flower itself ...
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... ment with aerial beings . Again it sweeps in silence past our feet , over the spiral reeds , around , above us , gliding through the shad- ws , and flickering through the sunshine ; but never resting , and yet never weary ; for the ...
... ment with aerial beings . Again it sweeps in silence past our feet , over the spiral reeds , around , above us , gliding through the shad- ws , and flickering through the sunshine ; but never resting , and yet never weary ; for the ...
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... ment to every representation of a sea view . Had the colour of this bird been red or yellow , Inferior to birds in their pictorial beauty , though scarcely less conducive to poetical interest , are the various tribes of insects that ...
... ment to every representation of a sea view . Had the colour of this bird been red or yellow , Inferior to birds in their pictorial beauty , though scarcely less conducive to poetical interest , are the various tribes of insects that ...
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Page 130 - Entreat me not to leave thee, Or to return from following after thee ; For whither thou goest, I will go ; And where thou lodgest, I will lodge ; Thy people shall be my people, And thy God, my God ; Where thou diest, will I die, And there will I be buried ; The Lord do so to me, And more also, If aught but death part thee and me.
Page 127 - And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.
Page 128 - And God heard the voice of the lad ; and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar ? fear not ; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is. Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand ; for I will make him a great nation.
Page 84 - Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide. They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way.
Page 133 - Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided: they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions.
Page 136 - 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.
Page 133 - I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.
Page 128 - And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bowshot; for she said, Let me not see the death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lift up her voice, and wept.
Page 127 - After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram : I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.
Page 164 - The hell within him ; for within him hell He brings, and round about him, nor from hell One step, no more than from himself, can fly, By change of place ; now conscience wakes despair.