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Página 174 - These are the gardens of the Desert, these The unshorn fields, boundless and beautiful, For which the speech of England has no name — The Prairies. I behold them for the first, And my heart swells while the dilated sight Takes in the encircling vastness.
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Página 189 - Our living flocks of thoughts need no longer trudge it slowly and wearily down the pen and along the paper, hindering each other as they struggle through the strait gate of the old handwriting. Our troops of feelings need no more crawl, as snails crawl, to their station on the page : regiment after regiment may now trot briskly forward, to fill paragraph after paragraph : and writing, once a trouble, is now at breathing-ease.
Página 170 - With them, the verse must take its/orm—but the sense or melody might take its chance! We are told that there were ' amatory poems in the shape of roses, looking-glasses, fans, and ladies' gowns; drinking-songs in the shape of wine-glasses, bottles, and flagons; religious verses in the shape of pulpits and altars; rhymed epitaphs in the shape of tomb-stones; and not to mention flying angels and trumpets of fame, there were patriotic odes in the shape of Grecian temples and Egyptian pyramids...
Página 198 - SOCIETY. THE annual meeting of this Society was held on Monday evening, April 23rd, at Finsbury ChapeL Though the evening was unfavourable, the attendance was numerous.
Página 163 - ... warranting such a punishment. He was glad to see that these tales affected the house. Would they then sanction enormities, the bare recital of which made them shudder ? Let them remember that humanity did not consist in a squeamish ear. It did not consist in shrinking and starting at such tales as these ; but in a disposition of the heart to remedy the evils they unfolded. Humanity belonged rather to the mind than to the nerves. But, if so, it should prompt men to charitable exertion.
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