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... meets with nothing to offend , nothing to disturb it . Here are no awkward attempts at grandeur , to provoke a smile ; no acute angles , to attract and disturb the attention of the eye . A Gothic tower and spire are amongst the happiest ...
... meets with nothing to offend , nothing to disturb it . Here are no awkward attempts at grandeur , to provoke a smile ; no acute angles , to attract and disturb the attention of the eye . A Gothic tower and spire are amongst the happiest ...
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... meet the lovely blushing flowers , Which , drooping , hung their heads as bathed in dew ; Or shrinking from the gaze of vulgar eye , Florished and bloomed in fragrance - breathing bowers , Where sorrow , with its harbinger , a sigh ...
... meet the lovely blushing flowers , Which , drooping , hung their heads as bathed in dew ; Or shrinking from the gaze of vulgar eye , Florished and bloomed in fragrance - breathing bowers , Where sorrow , with its harbinger , a sigh ...
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... meet the wishes which many have expressed . We beg to intimate , that for a publication like the Hermes short essays are generally most a propriate , and likely to obtain precedence . CLERICAL SKETCHES . - We are happy to find this art ...
... meet the wishes which many have expressed . We beg to intimate , that for a publication like the Hermes short essays are generally most a propriate , and likely to obtain precedence . CLERICAL SKETCHES . - We are happy to find this art ...
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... meet to concert measures for the appropriate reception of George IV . on his visit to the quondam " Canny Edinburgh , " now the Modern Athens . The first that appears is the Genius of the Palace , who inquires , Why all this commotion ...
... meet to concert measures for the appropriate reception of George IV . on his visit to the quondam " Canny Edinburgh , " now the Modern Athens . The first that appears is the Genius of the Palace , who inquires , Why all this commotion ...
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... meet him . I will not describe the pleasure with which we shook hands ; my readers well know what it is to meet a dear and cherished friend after a long absence . I know not which was the happier of the two . " Well , " he said , " here ...
... meet him . I will not describe the pleasure with which we shook hands ; my readers well know what it is to meet a dear and cherished friend after a long absence . I know not which was the happier of the two . " Well , " he said , " here ...
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Página 158 - I happened soon after to attend one of his sermons, in the course of which I perceived he intended to finish with a collection, and I silently resolved he should get nothing from me. I had in my pocket a handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded I began to soften and concluded to give the copper.
Página 5 - No stir in the air, no stir in the sea, The ship was still as she could be ; Her sails from heaven received no motion, Her keel was steady in the ocean. Without either sign or sound of their shock The waves flowed over the Inchcape Rock ; So little they rose, so little they fell, They did not move the Inchcape Bell. The...
Página 131 - And they sat down to eat bread. And they lifted up their eyes and looked ; and behold a company of Ishmaelites came from Gilead with their camels, bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.
Página 107 - Therefore all they that devour thee shall be devoured ; and all thine adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and they that spoil thee shall be a spoil, and all that prey upon thee will I give for a prey.
Página 102 - THERE are three modes of bearing the ills of life ; by indifference, which is the most common ; by philosophy, which is the most ostentatious ; and by religion, which is the most effectual. It has been acutely said, that " philosophy readily triumphs over past or future evils, but that present evils triumph over philosophy.
Página 219 - His forehead was broad and high, light as if built of ivory, with large projecting eyebrows, and his eyes rolling beneath them like a sea with darkened lustre. "A certain tender bloom his face o'erspread," a purple tinge as we see it in the pale thoughtful complexions of the Spanish portrait-painters, Murillo and Velasquez.
Página 96 - Sweden, frozen Lapland, rude and churlish Finland, unprincipled Russia, and the wide-spread regions of the wandering Tartar, if hungry, dry, cold, wet, or sick, woman has ever been friendly to me, and uniformly so ; and to add to this virtue, so worthy of the appellation of benevolence, these actions have been performed in so free and so kind a manner, that if I was dry I drank the sweet draught, and if hungry ate the coarse morsel, with a double relish.
Página 73 - And she said to the king, It was a true report that I heard in mine own land of thy acts and of thy wisdom. Howbeit I believed not the words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen it: and, behold, the half was not told me : thy wisdom and prosperity exceedeth the fame which I heard.
Página 219 - ... surveyed and projected him (with sufficient capacity and huge aspiration) into the world unknown of thought and imagination, with nothing to support or guide his veering purpose, as if Columbus had launched his adventurous course for the New World in a scallop, without oars or compass. So at least I comment on it after the event. Coleridge, in his person, was rather above the common size, inclining to the corpulent, or like Lord Hamlet,
Página 5 - And he fixed his eye on the darker speck. He felt the cheering power of spring, It made him whistle, it made him sing; His heart was mirthful to excess, But the Rover's mirth was wickedness. His eye was on the Inchcape float; Quoth he, " My men, put out the boat, And row me to the Inchcape Rock, And I'll plague the Abbot of Aberbrothok.