Miscellaneous EssaysD. Appleton, 1860 - 390 páginas |
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... existence , and in what The Alps themselves , obscurity is it to be extinguished ? The Eter- nal has placed our birth , and our death , under the form of two veiled phantoms , at the two extremities of our career ; the one produces the ...
... existence , and in what The Alps themselves , obscurity is it to be extinguished ? The Eter- nal has placed our birth , and our death , under the form of two veiled phantoms , at the two extremities of our career ; the one produces the ...
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... existence . He has his crosses , and the partner of his couch is there to soften them : his days may be sad and troubled , but in the chaste arms of his wife he finds comfort and repose . Without woman man would be rude , gross , and ...
... existence . He has his crosses , and the partner of his couch is there to soften them : his days may be sad and troubled , but in the chaste arms of his wife he finds comfort and repose . Without woman man would be rude , gross , and ...
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... existence would have been unknown . The ruined rock would not have hung over the abyss beneath ; the woods would not have exhibited that splendid variety of trunks bending under the weight of years , of trees hanging over the bed of ...
... existence would have been unknown . The ruined rock would not have hung over the abyss beneath ; the woods would not have exhibited that splendid variety of trunks bending under the weight of years , of trees hanging over the bed of ...
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... existence , meander , return , wheel about , dash across , form in squadron , separate , and reunite ; and the inhabitant of the seas , inspired by a breath of existence , pursues with bounding movements its mate , by the line of fire ...
... existence , meander , return , wheel about , dash across , form in squadron , separate , and reunite ; and the inhabitant of the seas , inspired by a breath of existence , pursues with bounding movements its mate , by the line of fire ...
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... existence . God is a profound secret . Man , created in his image , is equally incomprehensible . It was therefore an ineffable harmony to see the periods of his existence regulated by measures of time as harmonious as himself ...
... existence . God is a profound secret . Man , created in his image , is equally incomprehensible . It was therefore an ineffable harmony to see the periods of his existence regulated by measures of time as harmonious as himself ...
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Página 386 - PER me si va nella città dolente, Per me si va nell' eterno dolore, Per me si va tra la perduta gente. Giustizia mosse il mio alto fattore : Fecemi la divina potestate, La somma sapienza e il primo amore. Dinanzi a me non fur cose create, Se non eterne, ed io eterno duro : Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch...
Página 255 - ... regulations and ordinances necessary for the execution of the laws and the safety of the State.
Página 160 - Slow sinks, more lovely ere his race be run, Along Morea's hills the setting sun: Not, as in northern climes, obscurely bright, But one unclouded blaze of living light!
Página 386 - Con lieto volto, ond' io mi confortai, Mi mise dentro alle segrete cose. Quivi sospiri, pianti ed alti guai Risonavan per l'aer senza stelle, Perch' io al cominciar ne lagrimai. Diverse lingue, orribili favelle, Parole di dolore, accenti d'ira, Voci alte e fioche, e suon di man con elle, Facevano un tumulto, il qual s' aggira Sempre in quell' aria senza tempo tinta, Come la rena quando a turbo spira.
Página 254 - But although, from the very first, we clearly discerned and forcibly pointed out the disastrous effects on the freedom, peace, and tranquillity, first of France, and then of the...
Página 71 - The sun was now resting his huge disk upon the edge of the level ocean, and gilded the accumulation of towering clouds through which he had travelled the livelong day, and which now assembled on all sides, like misfortunes and disasters around a sinking empire and falling monarch.
Página 72 - Still, however, his dying splendor gave a sombre magnificence to the massive congregation of vapors, forming out of their unsubstantial gloom the show of pyramids and towers, some touched with gold, some with purple, some with a hue of deep and dark red. The distant sea, stretched beneath this varied and gorgeous canopy, lay almost portentously still, reflecting back the dazzling and level beams of the descending luminary, and the splendid coloring of the clouds amidst which he was setting.
Página 13 - Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below.
Página 161 - The world was sad ; the garden was a wild ! And man, the hermit, sighed, till woman smiled...
Página 161 - That hangs his head, and a' that ? The coward-slave, we pass him by, We dare be poor for a' that ! For a' that, and a' that, Our toils obscure, and a' that ; The rank is but the guinea stamp ; The man's the gowd for a