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... given to twaddle ; and - where one has a right to look for that wildness and exuberance , that almost savageness of invention , which so much in the German literature requires training and repression , while it betrays all the richness ...
... given to twaddle ; and - where one has a right to look for that wildness and exuberance , that almost savageness of invention , which so much in the German literature requires training and repression , while it betrays all the richness ...
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... given place to tawdry pa- per . Did he take the favorite road of his patron , St. Nicho- las , and vanish up the chimney ? Alas ! that noble fire - place was gone , and a patent sweep alone could perforate the cramp- ed vent of the ...
... given place to tawdry pa- per . Did he take the favorite road of his patron , St. Nicho- las , and vanish up the chimney ? Alas ! that noble fire - place was gone , and a patent sweep alone could perforate the cramp- ed vent of the ...
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... given immediately from the German : - " The angel who takes care of the flowers , and sprinkles up- on them the dew in the still night , slumbered on a spring day in the shade of a rose - bush . And when he awoke , he said , with a ...
... given immediately from the German : - " The angel who takes care of the flowers , and sprinkles up- on them the dew in the still night , slumbered on a spring day in the shade of a rose - bush . And when he awoke , he said , with a ...
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... given him expressly to be wasted , and for that only , fitted and predestinated . He looks out at the window and speaks to the only face he sees , to the only companion he is wont to welcome . Thou full orb'd moon - oh could thy light ...
... given him expressly to be wasted , and for that only , fitted and predestinated . He looks out at the window and speaks to the only face he sees , to the only companion he is wont to welcome . Thou full orb'd moon - oh could thy light ...
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... given purpose . His fancy was surprisingly fruitful of new and varied combinations of ideas ; and if his vein of hu- mor , peculiar and original as it was , had any fault , it was only that of excessive and unrestrained exuberance . His ...
... given purpose . His fancy was surprisingly fruitful of new and varied combinations of ideas ; and if his vein of hu- mor , peculiar and original as it was , had any fault , it was only that of excessive and unrestrained exuberance . His ...
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Página 211 - Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and Satyrs shall dance there.
Página 212 - For the Lord shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
Página 211 - And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, And the dust thereof into brimstone, And the land thereof shall become burning pitch. It shall not be quenched night nor day ; The smoke thereof shall go up for ever: From generation to generation it shall lie waste ; None shall pass through it for ever and ever.
Página 211 - Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken.
Página 212 - Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.
Página 212 - The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.
Página 212 - O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires. And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones.
Página 115 - Of every hearer; for it so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours.
Página 277 - What a singular destiny has been that of this remarkable man! To be regarded in his own age as a classic, and in ours as a companion. To receive from his contemporaries that full homage which men of genius have in general received only from posterity 1 To be more intimately known to posterity than other men are known to their contemporaries!
Página 335 - God ; the feeble hands which are unequal to any other weapon will grasp the sword of the Spirit ; and from myriads of humble, contrite hearts, the voice of intercession, supplication, and weeping, will mingle in its ascent to heaven with the shouts of battle and the shock of arms.