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... heard my brother say , that nothing could exceed Middleton's despondency at this time . He bitterly felt to how much higher distinction he might have attained , if he had but been more diligent during his three probationary years ...
... heard my brother say , that nothing could exceed Middleton's despondency at this time . He bitterly felt to how much higher distinction he might have attained , if he had but been more diligent during his three probationary years ...
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... heard it said by Germans , with refer- ence to the division and subdivision of what geo- graphers call Germany , into so great a number of separate states , too often warring one against the other " Wir haben kein vaterland " -We ...
... heard it said by Germans , with refer- ence to the division and subdivision of what geo- graphers call Germany , into so great a number of separate states , too often warring one against the other " Wir haben kein vaterland " -We ...
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... heard a good deal about him during his last days at Cambridge , where , after giving proof of talents which , if duly cultivated , would have placed him among the most learned and brilliant scholars of the University , he caught and ...
... heard a good deal about him during his last days at Cambridge , where , after giving proof of talents which , if duly cultivated , would have placed him among the most learned and brilliant scholars of the University , he caught and ...
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... heard him say , fixing his pro- minent eyes upon himself ( as he was wont to do , whenever there was a mirror in the room ) , with a sin- gularly coxcomical expression of countenance , that his dress was sure to be lost sight of the ...
... heard him say , fixing his pro- minent eyes upon himself ( as he was wont to do , whenever there was a mirror in the room ) , with a sin- gularly coxcomical expression of countenance , that his dress was sure to be lost sight of the ...
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... heard Johnson and Coleridge discuss this point together . Passing from the territory of Hanover into a district appertaining to the Elector of Mentz , we found our- selves , for the first time , among Catholics , not the most bigotted ...
... heard Johnson and Coleridge discuss this point together . Passing from the territory of Hanover into a district appertaining to the Elector of Mentz , we found our- selves , for the first time , among Catholics , not the most bigotted ...
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Página 253 - For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.
Página 140 - DURING the first year that Mr. Wordsworth and I were neighbours, our conversations turned frequently on the two cardinal points of poetry, the power of exciting the sympathy of the reader by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature, and the power of giving the interest of novelty by the modifying colours of imagination.
Página 62 - It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, And the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers...
Página 62 - Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
Página 80 - But the age of chivalry is gone! that of sophisters, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever! !Never, never more shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom.
Página 140 - In the one the incidents and agents were to be, in part at least, supernatural ; and the excellence aimed at was to consist in the interesting of the affections by the dramatic truth of such emotions as would naturally accompany such situations, supposing them real.
Página 90 - Tis the merry Nightingale That crowds, and hurries, and precipitates With fast thick warble his delicious notes, As he were fearful that an April night Would be too short for him to utter forth His love-chant, and disburthen his full soul Of all its music...
Página 66 - By quick instinctive motion, up I sprung, As thitherward endeavouring, and upright Stood on my feet: about me round I saw Hill, dale, and shady woods, and sunny plains, And liquid lapse of murmuring streams; by these Creatures that lived and moved, and walked or flew; Birds on the branches warbling; ~a.ll things smiled; With fragrance and with joy my heart o'erflowed.
Página 291 - ... feet. But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land? Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power ? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart ? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.
Página 98 - What sighs have been wafted after that ship ! what prayers offered up at the deserted fireside of home ! How often has the mistress, the wife, the mother, pored over the daily news, to catch some casual intelligence of this rover of the deep ! How has expectation darkened into anxiety — anxiety into dread — and dread into despair ! Alas ! not one memento shall ever return for love to cherish. All that shall ever be known, is, that she sailed from her port, « and was never heard of more ! »...