The Prose Workd of Mrs. Ellis: The poetry of life. Pictures of private life (first and second series) A voice from the vintageLangley, 1844 |
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... whole passage by garbled extracts ; and I risk the quotation at the peril of having the rest of my book con- trasted with these pages , like a chaplet of mock gems , in which is one true diamond . " Milton's fame rests chiefly on his ...
... whole passage by garbled extracts ; and I risk the quotation at the peril of having the rest of my book con- trasted with these pages , like a chaplet of mock gems , in which is one true diamond . " Milton's fame rests chiefly on his ...
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... whole extent of animal creation , except only where the chain of association is broken by accidental or local circumstances ; and hap- py is it for the human race , that they are so constituted as to be disposed unanimously to avoid ...
... whole extent of animal creation , except only where the chain of association is broken by accidental or local circumstances ; and hap- py is it for the human race , that they are so constituted as to be disposed unanimously to avoid ...
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... whole atmos- phere of the garden with its sweetness , has been sung and celebrated by so many poets , that our associations are with their numbers , rather than with any intrinsic quality in the flower itself . Indeed , whatever may ...
... whole atmos- phere of the garden with its sweetness , has been sung and celebrated by so many poets , that our associations are with their numbers , rather than with any intrinsic quality in the flower itself . Indeed , whatever may ...
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... whole life are lost . The delicacy of per- ception which enables them to detect the slightest intrusion upon the sacred mysteries of their nest , gives them a character of acuteness and sensibility far beyond that of other animals ; 34 ...
... whole life are lost . The delicacy of per- ception which enables them to detect the slightest intrusion upon the sacred mysteries of their nest , gives them a character of acuteness and sensibility far beyond that of other animals ; 34 ...
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... whole creation ? Let the critic smile - let the tradesman count his pence , and reckon up how little imagination has ever added to his store - let the modern philosopher exam- ine the leaf , and the flower , and the bird's wing , and ...
... whole creation ? Let the critic smile - let the tradesman count his pence , and reckon up how little imagination has ever added to his store - let the modern philosopher exam- ine the leaf , and the flower , and the bird's wing , and ...
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Página 88 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form ; Then have I reason to be fond of grief.
Página 159 - twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault Set roaring war : to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire, and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt : the strong-bas'd promontory Have I made shake ; and by the spurs pluck'd up The pine and cedar : graves, at my command, Have wak'd their sleepers ; op'd, and let them forth By my so potent art...
Página 136 - At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down : at her feet he bowed, he fell ; where he bowed, there he fell down dead.
Página 83 - Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Página 134 - But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested for himself that he might die; and said, It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life ; for I am not better than my fathers.
Página 85 - Awake, /Eolian lyre, awake, And give to rapture all thy trembling strings. From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take ; The laughing flowers, that round them blow, Drink life and fragrance as they flow. Now the rich stream of music winds along, Deep, majestic, smooth, and strong, Through verdant vales, and Ceres...
Página 134 - 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 166 - 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 amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite ; nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her siren daughters ; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom He pleases.
Página 81 - SWIFTLY walk over the western wave, Spirit of Night ! Out of the misty eastern cave, Where all the long and lone daylight Thou wovest dreams of joy and fear, Which make thee terrible and dear, — Swift be thy flight ! Wrap thy form in a mantle gray, Star-inwrought ! Blind with thine hair the eyes of day, Kiss her until she be wearied out, Then wander o'er city, and sea, and land, Touching all with thine opiate wand.
Página 85 - For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn Or busy housewife ply her evening care: No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.