The Wishing-cap PapersLee and Shepard, 1873 - 455 Seiten |
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... light- ning ; but I desire to know how an uninitiated per- son is to pronounce these travels of mine impossible ; how he is to prove , and be assured that when I fancy myself in Arabia , I , that is , my personal conscious- ness , the ...
... light- ning ; but I desire to know how an uninitiated per- son is to pronounce these travels of mine impossible ; how he is to prove , and be assured that when I fancy myself in Arabia , I , that is , my personal conscious- ness , the ...
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... light their wasted urns , " - to rub off the scurf generated by money - getting and hard ser- vice , and fit themselves for becoming creditors , magis- trates , and givers of good dinners . Unfortunately , this intellectual regimen is ...
... light their wasted urns , " - to rub off the scurf generated by money - getting and hard ser- vice , and fit themselves for becoming creditors , magis- trates , and givers of good dinners . Unfortunately , this intellectual regimen is ...
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... light than that of an insulting rebuke . Nobody is respon- sible for the insult now , because it has been of long standing ; but the spirit that has maintained and al- lowed it is not favorable to liberty , nor just to the true spirit ...
... light than that of an insulting rebuke . Nobody is respon- sible for the insult now , because it has been of long standing ; but the spirit that has maintained and al- lowed it is not favorable to liberty , nor just to the true spirit ...
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... were employed . The court had the good fortune to light on a man of genius ; but his pay , they say , shows what was thought of his art . Now it is true that Inigo Jones , as Surveyor of the Works , had 58 THE WISHING - CAP PAPERS .
... were employed . The court had the good fortune to light on a man of genius ; but his pay , they say , shows what was thought of his art . Now it is true that Inigo Jones , as Surveyor of the Works , had 58 THE WISHING - CAP PAPERS .
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... light and noise , Man , thus retir'd , his nobler thoughts employs . Here Charles contrives the ordering of his states , Here he resolves his neighboring princes ' fates : What nation shall have peace , where war be made , Determined is ...
... light and noise , Man , thus retir'd , his nobler thoughts employs . Here Charles contrives the ordering of his states , Here he resolves his neighboring princes ' fates : What nation shall have peace , where war be made , Determined is ...
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Seite 218 - A stranger yet to pain! I feel the gales, that from ye blow, A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing, My weary soul they seem to soothe, And, redolent of joy and youth, To breathe a second spring.
Seite 276 - THE Frost performs its secret ministry, Unhelped by any wind. The owlet's cry Came loud — and hark, again ! loud as before. The inmates of my cottage, all at rest, Have left me to that solitude, which suits Abstruser musings : save that at my side My cradled infant slumbers peacefully. 'Tis calm indeed ! so calm, that it disturbs And vexes meditation with its strange And extreme silentness.
Seite 277 - By lakes and sandy shores, beneath the crags Of ancient mountain, and beneath the clouds, Which image in their bulk both lakes and shores And mountain crags : so shalt thou see and hear The lovely shapes and sounds intelligible Of that eternal language, which thy God Utters, who from eternity doth teach Himself in all, and all things in himself.
Seite 185 - AND is there care in heaven ? and is there love In heavenly spirits to these creatures base...
Seite 277 - mid cloisters dim, And saw nought lovely but the sky and stars. But thou, my babe ! shalt wander like a breeze By lakes and sandy shores, beneath the crags Of ancient mountain, and beneath the clouds Which image in their bulk both lakes and shores And mountain crags...
Seite 437 - Eximia veste et victu convivia, ludi, pocula crebra, unguenta coronae serta parantur, nequiquam, quoniam medio de fonte leporum surgit amari aliquid quod in ipsis floribus angat...
Seite 454 - That first excites desire, and then supplies ; Unknown to them, when sensual pleasures cloy, To fill the languid pause with finer joy ; Unknown those powers that raise the soul to flame, Catch every nerve, and vibrate through the frame.
Seite 192 - To Paradise, the happy seat of man, His journey's end, and our beginning woe. But first he casts to change his proper shape ; Which else might work him danger or delay : And now a stripling cherub he appears, Not of the prime, yet such as in his face Youth smiled celestial, and to every limb Suitable grace diffused...
Seite 277 - Dear Babe, that sleepest cradled by my side, Whose gentle breathings, heard in this deep calm, Fill up the interspersed vacancies And momentary pauses of the thought ! My babe so beautiful ! it thrills my heart With tender gladness, thus to look at thee...
Seite 411 - I remember once being with Goldsmith in Westminster Abbey. While we surveyed the Poets' Corner, I said to him : " Forsitan et nostrum nomen miscebitur istis...