The Modern British Essayists: Alison, Archibald. Miscellaneous essaysA. Hart, 1852 |
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... existence , and in what The Alps themselves , obscurity is it to be extinguished ? The Eter- nal has placed our birth , and our death , under the form of two veiled phantoms , at the two extremities of our career ; the one produces the ...
... existence , and in what The Alps themselves , obscurity is it to be extinguished ? The Eter- nal has placed our birth , and our death , under the form of two veiled phantoms , at the two extremities of our career ; the one produces the ...
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... existence . He has his crosses , and the partner of his couch is there to soften them : his days may be sad and troubled , but in the chaste arms of his wife he finds comfort and repose . Without woman man would be rude , gross , and ...
... existence . He has his crosses , and the partner of his couch is there to soften them : his days may be sad and troubled , but in the chaste arms of his wife he finds comfort and repose . Without woman man would be rude , gross , and ...
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... existence would have been unknown . The ruined rock would not have hung over the abyss beneath ; the woods would not have exhibited that splendid variety of trunks bending under the weight of years , of trees hanging over the bed of ...
... existence would have been unknown . The ruined rock would not have hung over the abyss beneath ; the woods would not have exhibited that splendid variety of trunks bending under the weight of years , of trees hanging over the bed of ...
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... existence , meander , return , at the same instant fresh and humid with the rosy dew of the morning ? At every instant of the day the glorious orb is at once rising- resplendent at noonday , and setting in the west ; or rather our ...
... existence , meander , return , at the same instant fresh and humid with the rosy dew of the morning ? At every instant of the day the glorious orb is at once rising- resplendent at noonday , and setting in the west ; or rather our ...
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... existence . God is a profound secret . Man , created in his image , is equally incomprehensible . It was therefore an ineffable harmony to see the periods of his existence regulated by measures of time as harmonious as himself ...
... existence . God is a profound secret . Man , created in his image , is equally incomprehensible . It was therefore an ineffable harmony to see the periods of his existence regulated by measures of time as harmonious as himself ...
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Seite 119 - For contemplation he and valour formed, For softness she and sweet attractive grace, He for God only, she for God in him...
Seite 166 - Still o'er these scenes my memory wakes, And fondly broods with miser care ; Time but the impression deeper makes, As streams their channels deeper wear.
Seite 371 - Their starting-point is different, and their courses are not the same; yet each of them seems to be marked out by the will of Heaven to sway the destinies of half the globe.
Seite 260 - Divinity, now discover in that personage only a newly-created despot without any of the accessories or advantages which give, even to despotism, some hold on public opinion. A reaction has accordingly taken place: and men are in consequence prepared to listen to things against which, previously, they, adderwise, closed their ears, and remained deaf to the voice of the charmer, charm he never so wisely.
Seite 78 - Still, however, his dying splendor gave a sombre magnificence to the massive congregation of vapors, forming out of their unsubstantial gloom the show of pyramids and towers, some touched with gold, some with purple, some with a hue of deep and dark red. The distant sea, stretched beneath this varied and gorgeous canopy, lay almost portentously still, reflecting back the dazzling and level beams of the descending luminary, and the splendid coloring of the clouds amidst which he was setting.
Seite 369 - This gradual and continuous progress of the European race towards the Rocky Mountains has the solemnity of a providential event ; it is like a deluge of men rising unabatedly, and daily driven onward by the hand of God.
Seite 368 - The inhabitants of the United States are never fettered by the axioms of their profession; they escape from all the prejudices of their present station; they are not more attached to one line of operation than to another; they are not more prone to employ an old method than a new one; they have no rooted habits, and they easily shake off...
Seite 217 - Rome in the year 261, thirteen were now either destroyed, or were in the possession of the Opicans ; that on the Alban hills themselves Tusculum alone remained independent ; and that there was no other friendly city to obstruct the irruptions of the enemy into the territory of Rome. Accordingly, that territory was plundered year after year, and whatever defeats the plunderers may at times have sustained, yet they were never deterred from renewing a contest which they found in the main profitable...
Seite 27 - Salamis ! Their azure arches through the long expanse More deeply purpled meet his mellowing glance, And tenderest tints, along their summits driven, Mark his gay course, and own the hues of heaven ; Till, darkly shaded from the land and deep, Behind his Delphian cliff he sinks to sleep.
Seite 369 - Anglo-Americans at some future time, may be computed to equal three quarters of Europe in extent. The climate of the Union is upon the whole preferable to that of Europe, and its natural advantages are not less great ; it is therefore evident that its population will at some future time be proportionate to our own. Europe, divided as it is between so many different nations, and torn as it has been by incessant wars and the barbarous manners of the Middle Ages, has notwithstanding attained a population...