American Quarterly Review, Volume 19Robert Walsh Carey, Lea & Carey, 1836 - Serial publications |
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... nature might not be able to with- stand the violence it has not been habitually taught to restrain , nor escape the ruin that ensues from its eruption : and feeling this , he could excuse and show a forbearance to the universally ...
... nature might not be able to with- stand the violence it has not been habitually taught to restrain , nor escape the ruin that ensues from its eruption : and feeling this , he could excuse and show a forbearance to the universally ...
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... nature : though it may depre- ciate our admiration for an individual , yet certainly not for the general powers and results of the mind . It is thus we can associate all time by an intellectual chain , and the greatest in- tellect of ...
... nature : though it may depre- ciate our admiration for an individual , yet certainly not for the general powers and results of the mind . It is thus we can associate all time by an intellectual chain , and the greatest in- tellect of ...
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... nature and dominion of the human in- tellect . All these various powers exist in the greatest minds ; each one aids the other , and the due exercise of each represses the predominance of any one , and forms the clear , well regu- lated ...
... nature and dominion of the human in- tellect . All these various powers exist in the greatest minds ; each one aids the other , and the due exercise of each represses the predominance of any one , and forms the clear , well regu- lated ...
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... nature has fixed no impassable barrier , to the mental action of individuals . This is probably the class · Bacon calls bird - witted , where the mind seizes quickly , but has no power to retain , or to acquire more . The intellect ...
... nature has fixed no impassable barrier , to the mental action of individuals . This is probably the class · Bacon calls bird - witted , where the mind seizes quickly , but has no power to retain , or to acquire more . The intellect ...
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... nature . They feel , within themselves , a capacity for perfection , -a deep and unceasing admiration for that ideal and abstract beauty that exists in all the pursuits of mind ; and which , shadowy and distant as may be its attainment ...
... nature . They feel , within themselves , a capacity for perfection , -a deep and unceasing admiration for that ideal and abstract beauty that exists in all the pursuits of mind ; and which , shadowy and distant as may be its attainment ...
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Page 431 - tis true, I have gone here and there, And made myself a motley to the view, Gored mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear, Made old offences of affections new.
Page 432 - In me. thou see'st the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west ; Which by and by black night doth take away, Death's second self, that seals up all in rest. In me thou see'st the glowing of such fire That on the ashes of his youth doth lie, As the death-bed whereon it must expire, Consumed with that which it was nourish'd by. This thou perceiv'st, which makes thy love more strong, To love that well which thou must leave ere long.
Page 424 - Will murmur by the hour in foxglove bells: In truth the prison, unto which we doom Ourselves, no prison is: and hence for me, In sundry moods, 'twas pastime to be bound Within the Sonnet's scanty plot of ground; Pleased if some Souls (for such there needs must be) Who have felt the weight of too much liberty, Should find brief solace there, as I have found.
Page 425 - s not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come ; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom. If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
Page 426 - When, in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries And look upon myself and curse my fate. Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featured like him, like him with friends possess'd, Desiring this man's art and that man's scope.
Page 108 - Tears fell, when thou wert dying, From eyes unused to weep, And long where thou art lying Will tears the cold turf steep. When hearts, whose truth was proven Like thine, are laid in earth, There should a wreath be woven, To tell the world their worth...
Page 430 - It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the Sea: Listen!
Page 277 - I do remember well the hour which burst My spirit's sleep : a fresh May-dawn it was, When I walked forth upon the glittering grass, And wept, I knew not why ; until there rose From the near schoolroom, voices, that, alas ! Were but one echo from a world of woes — The harsh and grating strife of tyrants and of foes.
Page 278 - While yet a boy I sought for ghosts, and sped Through many a listening chamber, cave and ruin, And starlight wood, with fearful steps pursuing Hopes of high talk with the departed dead.
Page 108 - From eyes unused to weep, And long where thou art lying, Will tears the cold turf steep. When hearts, whose truth was proven, Like thine, are laid in earth, There should a wreath be woven To tell the world their worth. And I, who woke each morrow To clasp thy hand in mine, Who shared thy joy and sorrow, Whose weal and woe were thine: It should be mine to braid it Around thy faded brow, But I've in vain essayed it, And feel I cannot now.