Contributions to HerographyE. Darrow, 1850 - 101 páginas |
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... highest order of genius . Poets , critics and the literati generally , leoked up with surprise at the new orb that , meteor - like , had risen upon them . Many were astonished that a rustic could write readable verses at all : all were ...
... highest order of genius . Poets , critics and the literati generally , leoked up with surprise at the new orb that , meteor - like , had risen upon them . Many were astonished that a rustic could write readable verses at all : all were ...
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... highest interest to us all . Then would no man , like Burns , excuse himself for doing his most honorable duty ; then would no young lady , with a mean and foolish falsehood , announce her resolutions of eternal celibacy . Having ...
... highest interest to us all . Then would no man , like Burns , excuse himself for doing his most honorable duty ; then would no young lady , with a mean and foolish falsehood , announce her resolutions of eternal celibacy . Having ...
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... highest . Let us rather thank God for the blessings of our assigned position , and strive to acquit ourselves manfully of its obligations . ( 6 We have seen Burns leaving Ellisland with regret , and settling in Dumfries with almost ...
... highest . Let us rather thank God for the blessings of our assigned position , and strive to acquit ourselves manfully of its obligations . ( 6 We have seen Burns leaving Ellisland with regret , and settling in Dumfries with almost ...
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... highest order . Descended from an Athenian father , he inherited all the quickness and acumen of that extraordi- nary people -- probably the most extraordinary for an excessive share of these qualities that the world has ever seen ...
... highest order . Descended from an Athenian father , he inherited all the quickness and acumen of that extraordi- nary people -- probably the most extraordinary for an excessive share of these qualities that the world has ever seen ...
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... highest specimens of the moral sublime : " Strike me , Antisthenes , strike me if you choose to do so , but be assu- red that you will never thus succeed in dissuading me from the pursuit of what I am convinced may be learned from your ...
... highest specimens of the moral sublime : " Strike me , Antisthenes , strike me if you choose to do so , but be assu- red that you will never thus succeed in dissuading me from the pursuit of what I am convinced may be learned from your ...
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Página 14 - Still o'er these scenes my memory wakes, and fondly broods with miser care ; time but the impression deeper makes, as streams their channels deeper wear.
Página 13 - Mary ! dear departed shade ! Where is thy place of blissful rest-? Seest thou thy lover lowly laid ? Hear'st thou the groans that rend his breast...
Página 53 - To suffer woes which hope thinks infinite ; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night ; To defy power which seems omnipotent ; To love and bear ; to hope till hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates...
Página 32 - Oh, fear not in a world like this, And thou shalt know ere long, Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong.
Página 19 - Faith, he maunna fa' that! For a' that, and a' that; Their dignities, and a' that, The pith o' sense, and pride o' worth, Are higher ranks than a' that. Then let us pray that come it may,— As come it will for a' that,— That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth, May bear the gree, and a
Página 12 - Ye banks and braes and streams around The castle o' Montgomery, Green be your woods, and fair your flowers, Your waters never drumlie ! There simmer first unfauld her robes, And there the langest tarry ; For there I took the last fareweel O
Página 12 - And mouldering now in silent dust That heart that lo'ed me dearly ! But still within my bosom's core Shall live my Highland Mary.
Página 14 - She was a form of life and light, That, seen, became a part of sight...
Página 13 - Eternity will not efface Those records dear of transports past ; Thy image at our last embrace ; Ah, little thought we 'twas our last ) Ayr gurgling kiss'd his pebbled shore, O'erhung with wild woods thick'ning green : The fragrant birch, and hawthorn hoar, Twined amorous round the raptured scene.
Página 19 - Our toils obscure an' a' that, The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The Man's the gowd for a' that. What though on hamely fare we dine, Wear hoddin grey, an' a that; Gie fools their silks, and knaves their wine; A Man's a Man for a