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... mind devoted to so ma- terial a science as mechanics . Who can say that the deep secrets of Nature which such a mind grasped , were not also the fruit of this faith , just as truly as if he had thought and labored in purely spiritual ...
... mind devoted to so ma- terial a science as mechanics . Who can say that the deep secrets of Nature which such a mind grasped , were not also the fruit of this faith , just as truly as if he had thought and labored in purely spiritual ...
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... mind , not surely to the mere desire to conceal the author- ship of the most wonderful works of human genius . If Shakspeare could have written one of his plays , he could have written them all ; and his very great- ness seems to lift ...
... mind , not surely to the mere desire to conceal the author- ship of the most wonderful works of human genius . If Shakspeare could have written one of his plays , he could have written them all ; and his very great- ness seems to lift ...
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... mind , and to take a sweep up and down the almost unimaginable extent of London . Words- worth's sonnet on Westminster Bridge at morning , showed that he had a human heart , which some have denied him : " Earth hath not any thing more ...
... mind , and to take a sweep up and down the almost unimaginable extent of London . Words- worth's sonnet on Westminster Bridge at morning , showed that he had a human heart , which some have denied him : " Earth hath not any thing more ...
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... tasks in a day . At other times he would keep them all merry with his stories , and fill his pages with the oddest scrawls and etchings . This called to mind Lamb's boyish delight , which he speaks of in one of 3 LONDON . 33.
... tasks in a day . At other times he would keep them all merry with his stories , and fill his pages with the oddest scrawls and etchings . This called to mind Lamb's boyish delight , which he speaks of in one of 3 LONDON . 33.
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... mind . And if one wishes for power , vastness , agitation , terror , he has it in the sea and storm pieces , that no artist loves more , or has a better opportunity to delineate , than he who lives in an island which is the home of ...
... mind . And if one wishes for power , vastness , agitation , terror , he has it in the sea and storm pieces , that no artist loves more , or has a better opportunity to delineate , than he who lives in an island which is the home of ...
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Page 405 - Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies, The tufted crow-toe, and pale jessamine, The white pink, and the pansy freaked with jet, The glowing violet The musk-rose, and the well-attired woodbine, With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears: Bid amaranthus all his beauty shed, And daffadillies fill their cups with tears, To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies.
Page 28 - This city now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.
Page 447 - A glorious company, the flower of men, To serve as model for the mighty world, And be the fair beginning of a time. I made them lay their hands in mine and swear To reverence the King, as if he were Their conscience, and their conscience as their King, To break the heathen and uphold the Christ, To ride abroad redressing human wrongs, To speak no slander, no, nor listen to it, To honor his own word as if his God's, To lead sweet lives in purest chastity, To love one maiden only, cleave to her, And...
Page 197 - For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes The still sad music of humanity ; Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with the joy Of elevated thoughts : a sense sublime Of something far more deeply interfused, Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, And the round ocean...
Page 441 - Deep-meadow'd, happy, fair with orchard lawns And bowery hollows crown'd with summer sea, Where I will heal me of my grievous wound.
Page 405 - Or whether thou to our moist vows denied, Sleep'st by the fable of Bellerus old, Where the great vision of the guarded mount Looks toward Namancos and Bayona's hold; Look homeward, Angel, now, and melt with ruth, And, O ye dolphins, waft the hapless youth.
Page 97 - There, if thy Spirit touch the soul, And grace her mean abode, Oh, with what peace, and joy, and love, She communes with her God ! There like the nightingale she pours Her solitary lays ; Nor asks a witness of her song, Nor thirsts for human praise.
Page 343 - You'll have no scandal while you dine, But honest talk and wholesome wine, And only hear the magpie gossip Garrulous under a roof of pine: For groves of pine on either hand, To break the blast of winter, stand; And further on, the hoary Channel Tumbles a breaker on chalk and sand; Where, if below the milky steep Some ship of battle slowly creep, And on thro...
Page 352 - TEACH me, my God and King, In all things thee to see, And what I do in any thing, To do it as for thee...
Page 411 - Howe'er you come to know it, answer me : Though you untie the winds and let them fight Against the churches ; though the yesty waves Confound and swallow navigation up ; Though bladed corn be lodg'd and trees blown down ; Though castles topple on their warders...