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Scott's “ Lay , ” a poem as I thought in the critical vanity of sixteen , peculiarly suitable to youthful readers , stood , I recollect , on this index of the proscribed . Many parents , from that ever - growing temptation to assume ...
Scott's “ Lay , ” a poem as I thought in the critical vanity of sixteen , peculiarly suitable to youthful readers , stood , I recollect , on this index of the proscribed . Many parents , from that ever - growing temptation to assume ...
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... as he studied Plato and the Poets , and thought called to thought from the dead and the distant ; -in Cecilia rather by circumstances affecting the human passions , or anything that appeared vitally to touch her mother .
... as he studied Plato and the Poets , and thought called to thought from the dead and the distant ; -in Cecilia rather by circumstances affecting the human passions , or anything that appeared vitally to touch her mother .
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But this had long past now , and as we thought , for ever . The troubled delight of passion had retired before the security of his wedded love : the little cares of household activity restrained the agitated calm of reverie and of ...
But this had long past now , and as we thought , for ever . The troubled delight of passion had retired before the security of his wedded love : the little cares of household activity restrained the agitated calm of reverie and of ...
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the highest masters can effect , their thoughts are presented with a pregnant vitality , operative on the reader's mind with ... enabled my father to indulge the fancy of rarely quitting these Elysian Fields of high thought and poetry .
the highest masters can effect , their thoughts are presented with a pregnant vitality , operative on the reader's mind with ... enabled my father to indulge the fancy of rarely quitting these Elysian Fields of high thought and poetry .
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But I then reckoned the writer so provokingly incapable of really estimating that dear creature's merits , in their height and peculiarity , that I thought nothing of Robert's extracts except to reflect with a little shame , that the ...
But I then reckoned the writer so provokingly incapable of really estimating that dear creature's merits , in their height and peculiarity , that I thought nothing of Robert's extracts except to reflect with a little shame , that the ...
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Page 354 - When Love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates. And my divine Althea brings To whisper at the grates; When I lie tangled in her hair And fetter'd to her eye. The birds that wanton in the air Know no such liberty.
Page 210 - We teach and define that it is a dogma divinely revealed : that the Roman Pontiff, when he speaks ex .cathedra, that is, when in discharge of the office of Pastor and Doctor of all Christians, by virtue of his supreme Apostolic authority he defines a doctrine regarding faith or morals to be held by the Universal Church...
Page 214 - People say that the doctrine of Transubstantiation is difficult to believe ; I did not believe the doctrine till I was a Catholic. I had no difficulty in believing it as soon as I believed that the Catholic Roman Church was the oracle of God, and that she had declared this doctrine to be part of the original revelation.
Page 83 - THE lost days of my life until to-day, What were they, could I see them on the street Lie as they fell ? Would they be ears of wheat Sown once for food but trodden into clay ? Or golden coins squandered and still to pay ? Or drops of blood dabbling the guilty feet ? Or such spilt water as in dreams must cheat The undying throats of Hell, athirst alway...
Page 369 - Are not my days few? Cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; a land of darkness, as darkness itself, and of the shadow of death, without any order and where the light is as darkness.
Page 84 - Hell, athirst alway? I do not see them here; but after death God knows I know the faces I shall see, Each one a murdered self, with low last breath. "I am thyself, — what hast thou done to me?" "And I — and I — thyself,
Page 83 - I HAVE been here before, But when or how I cannot tell : I know the grass beyond the door, The sweet keen smell, The sighing sound, the lights around the shore. You have been mine before, — How long ago I may not know : But just when at that swallow's soar Your neck turned so, Some veil did fall, — I knew it all of yore.
Page 215 - But for myself, I cannot indeed prove it, I cannot tell how it is; but I say, 'Why should it not be? What's to hinder it? What do I know of substance or matter? Just as much as the greatest philosophers, and that is nothing at all...
Page 82 - THESE little firs to-day are things To clasp into a giant's cap, Or fans to suit his lady's lap. From many winters many springs Shall cherish them in strength and sap, Till they be marked upon the map, A wood for the wind's wanderings. All seed is in the sower's hands : And what at first was trained to spread Its shelter for some single head, — Yea, even such fellowship of wands, — May hide the sunset, and the shade Of its great multitude be laid Upon the earth and elder sands.
Page 170 - He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him: He also will hear their cry, and will save them.