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Page 145
Three or four of Mrs . Trollope ' s works are marked by a more terse and compact
habit of thought , and show , by their superiority to the rest of the family , what she
can produce when she likes . Assuredly this lady ' s industry and exuberance of ...
Three or four of Mrs . Trollope ' s works are marked by a more terse and compact
habit of thought , and show , by their superiority to the rest of the family , what she
can produce when she likes . Assuredly this lady ' s industry and exuberance of ...
Page 149
A dark , narrow world , indeed — so Christopher North has answered that
question - - - yet , narrow as it is , haunted by thoughts that can , and too often do ,
debase and terrify into idiocy or madness ; for nature thwarted , must dwindle into
...
A dark , narrow world , indeed — so Christopher North has answered that
question - - - yet , narrow as it is , haunted by thoughts that can , and too often do ,
debase and terrify into idiocy or madness ; for nature thwarted , must dwindle into
...
Page 156
... d afar to seers of yore ; Faith hath risen stronger , clearer , Fear dishonours
God no more . Thoughts a few great hearts had treasured In the day - dreams of
the mind , By the sense of nations measured , Blossom broad - cast o ' er
mankind .
... d afar to seers of yore ; Faith hath risen stronger , clearer , Fear dishonours
God no more . Thoughts a few great hearts had treasured In the day - dreams of
the mind , By the sense of nations measured , Blossom broad - cast o ' er
mankind .
Page 157
These we dimly sought , while o ' er us Hung the terrors of the tomb , And with
rack and stake before us , Tested in the prison ' s gloom , We the mighty secrets
sounded , Riper thought revealed to time , And the wondrous hopes we founded
...
These we dimly sought , while o ' er us Hung the terrors of the tomb , And with
rack and stake before us , Tested in the prison ' s gloom , We the mighty secrets
sounded , Riper thought revealed to time , And the wondrous hopes we founded
...
Page 168
I suspect that now our neighbours would not be so ready to attempt to surprise
the place and to burn its arsenal , as they one fine night thought of doing some
few years back . People in general are so accustomed to believe our sacred
coasts ...
I suspect that now our neighbours would not be so ready to attempt to surprise
the place and to burn its arsenal , as they one fine night thought of doing some
few years back . People in general are so accustomed to believe our sacred
coasts ...
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Page 315 - And everlasting motion, not in vain By day or star-light thus from my first dawn Of childhood didst thou intertwine for me The passions that build up our human soul ; Not with the mean and vulgar works of man, But with high objects ; with enduring things, With life and nature, purifying thus The elements of feeling and of thought, And sanctifying, by such discipline, Both pain and fear, until we recognise A grandeur in the beatings of the heart.
Page 462 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed; in breeze or gale or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving, boundless, endless, and sublime, — The image of Eternity, the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Page 313 - Gentle Henrietta then, And a third Mary next began, Then Joan and Jane and Audria, And then a pretty Thomasine, And then another Catherine, And then a long
Page 279 - I'd have you remember that when poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the window.
Page 427 - Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good.
Page 146 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer ; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike...
Page 241 - Journal, which is a very extraordinary production *, and of a most melancholy truth in all that regards high life in England. I know, or knew personally, most of the personages and societies which he describes ; and after reading his remarks, have the sensation fresh upon me as if I had seen them yesterday. I would however plead in behalf of some few exceptions, which I will mention by and by.
Page 489 - We have but to change the point of view, and the greatest action looks mean ; as we turn the perspective-glass, and a giant appears a pigmy.
Page 426 - Ring out the want, the care, the sin, The faithless coldness of the times ; Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes, But ring the fuller minstrel in.
Page 488 - ... like fate. He performed a treason or a court-bow, he told a falsehood as black as Styx, as easily as he paid a compliment or spoke about the weather. He took a mistress, and left her; he betrayed his benefactor, and supported him, or would have murdered him, with the same calmness always, and having no more remorse than Clotho when she weaves the thread, or Lachesis when she cuts it In the hour of battle I have heard the Prince of Savoy's officers say, the Prince became possessed with a sort...