The Wishing-cap PapersLee and Shepard, 1873 - 455 Seiten |
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... thought- ful and good - natured speculations on human life . Indeed , some of the essays in the collection are , it seems to me , more terse in style , more vigor- ous in thought , and more masculine in tone , than even the best papers ...
... thought- ful and good - natured speculations on human life . Indeed , some of the essays in the collection are , it seems to me , more terse in style , more vigor- ous in thought , and more masculine in tone , than even the best papers ...
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... thought , actually to be there . Cogitation has been held by some to be nothing but local mo- tion . Their motion was a vulgar one , being as dif- ferent from mine as that of a telegraph is from light- ning ; but I desire to know how an ...
... thought , actually to be there . Cogitation has been held by some to be nothing but local mo- tion . Their motion was a vulgar one , being as dif- ferent from mine as that of a telegraph is from light- ning ; but I desire to know how an ...
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... thought , but stouter muscles , I , for my part , must still endeavor , till I die , to push the world a little farther into the sunshine . It is for this reason I am in all parts of it ; one of hundreds of beings who are trying to ...
... thought , but stouter muscles , I , for my part , must still endeavor , till I die , to push the world a little farther into the sunshine . It is for this reason I am in all parts of it ; one of hundreds of beings who are trying to ...
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... thought a modest request in the two lovers to say , " Ye gods , annihilate but space and time , And make two lovers happy . " * But let the reader peruse only two or three meta- physical treatises ( one of them being on time ) , and ...
... thought a modest request in the two lovers to say , " Ye gods , annihilate but space and time , And make two lovers happy . " * But let the reader peruse only two or three meta- physical treatises ( one of them being on time ) , and ...
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... thought it better , upon consideration , to take the opportunity of giving myself full scope , political as well as otherwise . It is a fool- ish reproach to men of letters , that they meddle with politics . Who is to do so if they do ...
... thought it better , upon consideration , to take the opportunity of giving myself full scope , political as well as otherwise . It is a fool- ish reproach to men of letters , that they meddle with politics . Who is to do so if they do ...
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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...