The Trojan Sketch Book

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Abba A. Goddard
Young & Hartt, 1846 - 180 páginas

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Página 68 - O! the one life within us and abroad, Which meets all motion and becomes its soul, A light in sound, a sound-like power in light Rhythm in all thought, and joyance...
Página 69 - God coming in his majesty, his telling of the beasts' joyfulness and hills leaping, but a heavenly poesy, wherein almost he showeth himself a passionate lover of that unspeakable and everlasting beauty to be seen by the eyes of the mind only, cleared by faith?
Página 109 - MEN, by associating in large masses, as in camps, and in cities, improve their talents, but impair their virtues, and strengthen their minds, but weaken their morals ; thus a retrocession in the one, is too often the price they pay, for a refinement in the other.
Página 34 - own exceeding great reward"; it has soothed my afflictions; it has multiplied and refined my enjoyments; it has endeared solitude; and it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and the beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
Página 29 - The rill is tuneless to his ear, who feels No harmony within ; the south wind steals As silent as unseen among the leaves. Who has no inward beauty, none perceives, Though all around is beautiful.
Página 71 - The winter was past, the rain over and gone ; the flowers were appearing on the earth ; the time of the singing of birds had come, and the voice of the turtle was heard in the land ; the fig-tree was putting forth her green figs, and the vines, now in bloom, gave a good smell.
Página 29 - Soul! fearful is thy power, which thus transforms All things into thy likeness; heaves in storms The strong, proud sea, or lays it down to rest, Like the hushed infant on its mother's breast — Which gives each outward circumstance its hue, And shapes the acts, and thoughts of men anew, Till they, in turn, or love or hate impart, As love or hate holds rule within the heart.
Página 141 - It is a matchless volume, and it is impossible that we can study it too much, or esteem it too highly.

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