The Poetry of Life, Volume 2Carey, Lea, and Blanchard, 1835 |
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... observation to be made on the subject of love , that it marks the progress of national civilization , and the improvement or the deterioration of public morals . Love , above all other passions , is ca- pable of producing the greatest ...
... observation to be made on the subject of love , that it marks the progress of national civilization , and the improvement or the deterioration of public morals . Love , above all other passions , is ca- pable of producing the greatest ...
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... observation , and too necessary for praise , when a woman forgets her own sorrows to smile with the gay , or lays aside her own secret joys to weep with the sad . But let lordly man make the experiment for one half hour , and he will ...
... observation , and too necessary for praise , when a woman forgets her own sorrows to smile with the gay , or lays aside her own secret joys to weep with the sad . But let lordly man make the experiment for one half hour , and he will ...
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... observe the character of woman , and it is here if ever , that she learns the truth - learns what is in her own heart , and what are her duties to her- self and others . Not that she learns all this through the gentle instrumentality of ...
... observe the character of woman , and it is here if ever , that she learns the truth - learns what is in her own heart , and what are her duties to her- self and others . Not that she learns all this through the gentle instrumentality of ...
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... observation , more strikingly illustrative of intellectual , moral , and even physical beauty than that presented by a domestic circle , where a mother holds her proper place , as the source of tenderness , the centre of affection , the ...
... observation , more strikingly illustrative of intellectual , moral , and even physical beauty than that presented by a domestic circle , where a mother holds her proper place , as the source of tenderness , the centre of affection , the ...
Página 127
... observe how it may be associated with our pursuits , so as to give interest to what is familiar , to refine what is material , and to heighten what is sublime . We now open the Bible , and find that poetry as a principle of intellectual ...
... observe how it may be associated with our pursuits , so as to give interest to what is familiar , to refine what is material , and to heighten what is sublime . We now open the Bible , and find that poetry as a principle of intellectual ...
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admiration affections amongst Ariel arise Balaam beauty behold beneath blessed Book of Job capable character charm cherub children of Israel children of men choly colouring connected dark death deep diffused Divine earth earthly enjoyment eternal evil existence faculty faithful familiar spirit feeling genius glory grief hand happiness harmony hast hath heart heaven hope human ideas imagination important impressions impulse influence instance intellectual Israel Jephthah language less light listen look Lord Lord Byron majesty mankind Mark Antony melan melancholy melody mental mind Moab moral mountains nature ness never object OTLEY pain passions peculiar perceptions Philistines pity pleasure poet poetical poetry principles PROSPERO pure racter refined religion Samuel Saul Sisera smile soul speak sphere spirit stars sublime suffering sweet taste tears tender thee thine things thou thoughts tion truth uncon unto voice wings woman wonder words writer
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Página 140 - Entreat me not to leave thee, Or to return from following after thee ; For whither thou goest, I will go ; And where thou lodgest, I will lodge ; Thy people shall be my people, And thy God, my God ; Where thou diest, will I die, And there will I be buried ; The Lord do so to me, And more also, If aught but death part thee and me.
Página 271 - And chiefly Thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for Thou know'st ; Thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread Dovelike satst brooding on the vast abyss, And madest it pregnant: What in me is dark, Illumine; what is low, raise and support...
Página 267 - He, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower. His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than Archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured...
Página 130 - And Cain talked with Abel his brother : and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.
Página 160 - There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun, who rideth upon the heaven in thy help, and in his excellency on the sky. The eternal God is thy refuge; and underneath are the everlasting arms; and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee, and shall, say, Destroy them.
Página 159 - When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
Página 277 - I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her siren daughters...
Página 270 - Heaven thou wert ; and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite.
Página 153 - And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.
Página 158 - Who is like unto thee, O Lord, among the Gods? who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?