The Poetry of Life, Volume 2Carey, Lea, and Blanchard, 1835 |
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... principle , which gives intensity to perception , and vividness to thought . All mankind who are gifted with common sense , are capable of writing verses , but all cannot feel , and still less can all write poetically . In order to do ...
... principle , which gives intensity to perception , and vividness to thought . All mankind who are gifted with common sense , are capable of writing verses , but all cannot feel , and still less can all write poetically . In order to do ...
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... principle of adaptation , it consequently ex- tends a similar influence over the mind where it exists . Under favourable circumstances , and before it reaches the crisis of its fate , it has a natural tendency to smooth down the ...
... principle of adaptation , it consequently ex- tends a similar influence over the mind where it exists . Under favourable circumstances , and before it reaches the crisis of its fate , it has a natural tendency to smooth down the ...
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... principle . We never loved without arraying the ob- ject in all the glories of moral as well as physical per- fection , and deriving a kind of dignity to ourselves from our capacity of admiring a creature so excellent and dignified ...
... principle . We never loved without arraying the ob- ject in all the glories of moral as well as physical per- fection , and deriving a kind of dignity to ourselves from our capacity of admiring a creature so excellent and dignified ...
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... principles of human nature , would ever tell their love , were it not for their power which this assion possesses to overthrow the rational faculties , jo blind perception , and to silence experience , holding he wise man captive in the ...
... principles of human nature , would ever tell their love , were it not for their power which this assion possesses to overthrow the rational faculties , jo blind perception , and to silence experience , holding he wise man captive in the ...
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... principle of evil has been there . There is in its elevated nature , a character of constancy , truth , and dignity ... principles in all their power . Besides the love here spoken of , poetry abounds in descriptions of that which ...
... principle of evil has been there . There is in its elevated nature , a character of constancy , truth , and dignity ... principles in all their power . Besides the love here spoken of , poetry abounds in descriptions of that which ...
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admiration affections amongst Ariel arise ascer Balaam beauty behold beneath blessed Book of Job capable character charm cherub children of Israel children of men colouring connexion dark death deep diffused divine earth earthly enjoyment eternal evil existence faculty faithful familiar familiar spirits feeling genius glory grief hand happiness harmony hast hath heart heaven hope human ideas imagination impressions impulse influence instance intel intellectual Israel Jephthah language less light listen lives look Lord Lord Byron majesty mankind Mark Antony melancholy mental mighty mind Moab moral mountain nature ness never nexion object pain passions perceptions Philistines pity pleasure poet poetical poetry principles PROSPERO pure racter refined religion rience Saul Sisera smile sorrow soul speak sphere spirit stars sublime suffering sweet taste tears tender thee thine things thou thoughts tion truth unto voice wings woman wonder words writer
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Página 32 - I have of late — but wherefore I know not — lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Página 156 - Some heavenly music, (which even now I do,) To work mine end upon their senses, that This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff, Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, And, deeper than did ever plummet sound, I'll drown my book.
Página 169 - 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 82 - 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 102 - 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 89 - 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 153 - All hail, great master! grave sir, hail ! I come To answer thy best pleasure ; be't to fly, To swim, to dive into the fire, to ride On the curl'd clouds ; to thy strong bidding, task Ariel, and all his quality.
Página 101 - The Lord is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation : he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation ; my father's God, and I will exalt him.
Página 176 - 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 170 - Me miserable ! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.