Memoirs of Celebrated Characters, Volume 3Harper & brothers, 1856 - Biography |
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... conversation between the bailiff and his attend- ant . She trembled with apprehension , and dismissed the workmen before the close of the day , lest she should offend the tyrant by continuing to build a house , the WILLIAM TELL . 17.
... conversation between the bailiff and his attend- ant . She trembled with apprehension , and dismissed the workmen before the close of the day , lest she should offend the tyrant by continuing to build a house , the WILLIAM TELL . 17.
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... conversation , and pledged mutual faith with no oath beyond a glance , the expression of the eye , and the pressure of the hands the soul of William Tell at the moment when he elevated his bow , hesitating between the apple placed on ...
... conversation , and pledged mutual faith with no oath beyond a glance , the expression of the eye , and the pressure of the hands the soul of William Tell at the moment when he elevated his bow , hesitating between the apple placed on ...
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... conversations , labors , localities , friendships , enjoyments , hospitalities , ease , weariness , happiness , tears , births , deaths , hopes , and disap- pointments - sad and joyous secrets of the domestic hearth -all these form ...
... conversations , labors , localities , friendships , enjoyments , hospitalities , ease , weariness , happiness , tears , births , deaths , hopes , and disap- pointments - sad and joyous secrets of the domestic hearth -all these form ...
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... conversation there is nothing on earth so brilliant as yourself . Every word you utter becomes you so well that the sparkle of your wit adds to the brightness of your eyes , and though it is said language impresses only the ear , it is ...
... conversation there is nothing on earth so brilliant as yourself . Every word you utter becomes you so well that the sparkle of your wit adds to the brightness of your eyes , and though it is said language impresses only the ear , it is ...
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... conversation on intellectual subjects , attracted to their house all the men and women of the court and city who desired to cultivate their imaginations . These two ladies held their court of wit at the Hôtel de Ram- bouillet , in the ...
... conversation on intellectual subjects , attracted to their house all the men and women of the court and city who desired to cultivate their imaginations . These two ladies held their court of wit at the Hôtel de Ram- bouillet , in the ...
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Page 137 - Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day...
Page 136 - Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the Muses haunt Clear spring, or shady grove, or sunny hill...
Page 136 - Or hear'st thou rather pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell? Before the sun, Before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite.
Page 128 - 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 136 - HAIL, holy Light, offspring of heaven first-born, Or of the eternal co-eternal beam, May I express thee unblamed ? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate.
Page 141 - Now, when as sacred light began to dawn In Eden on the humid flowers, that breathed Their morning incense, when all things, that breathe From the Earth's great altar send up silent praise To the Creator, and his nostrils fill With grateful smell, forth came the human pair, And...
Page 128 - He added not, and from her turn'd ; but Eve Not so repulsed, with tears that ceased not flowing, And tresses all disorder'd, at his feet Fell humble, and, embracing them, besought His peace, and thus proceeded in her plaint.
Page 137 - Thus with the year Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud instead and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and, for the book of knowledge fair, Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.
Page 128 - She ended weeping, and her lowly plight, Immovable till peace obtained from fault Acknowledged and deplored, in Adam wrought Commiseration; soon his heart relented Towards her, his life so late and sole delight, Now at his feet submissive in distress, Creature so fair his reconcilement seeking, His counsel whom she had displeased, his aid; As one disarmed, his anger all he lost...
Page 140 - Awake: The morning shines, and the fresh field Calls us; we lose the prime, to mark how spring Our tender plants, how blows the citron grove, What drops the myrrh, and what the balmy reed, How nature paints her colours, how the bee Sits on the bloom extracting liquid sweet.