Romance and Reality, Volumen1J. J. Harper, 1832 |
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... feelings . But all this is laying a very " flattering unction to our souls ; " for who really enters into our thoughts , cares for our hopes , allows for our fears , or sympathises with our feelings ? The gratitude and the modesty of an ...
... feelings . But all this is laying a very " flattering unction to our souls ; " for who really enters into our thoughts , cares for our hopes , allows for our fears , or sympathises with our feelings ? The gratitude and the modesty of an ...
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... feelings , no longer powerfully excited , are proportion- ably quiet in reaction . But youth , balancing itself upon hope , is for ever in extremes ; its expectations are continu- ally aroused only to be baffled ; and disappointment ...
... feelings , no longer powerfully excited , are proportion- ably quiet in reaction . But youth , balancing itself upon hope , is for ever in extremes ; its expectations are continu- ally aroused only to be baffled ; and disappointment ...
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... feeling which fixes the eye and chains the lip , on finding ourselves for the first time in the presence of some great man , hitherto to us as an historical portrait , one whose thoughts are of the destinies of nations , whose part ...
... feeling which fixes the eye and chains the lip , on finding ourselves for the first time in the presence of some great man , hitherto to us as an historical portrait , one whose thoughts are of the destinies of nations , whose part ...
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... feelings , over which he scarcely knew whether to sigh or smile . He might smile to think how the lover had wasted his time , and yet sigh to think how pleasantly it had been wasted . But Mr. Ďela- warr knew well , " Tis folly to dream ...
... feelings , over which he scarcely knew whether to sigh or smile . He might smile to think how the lover had wasted his time , and yet sigh to think how pleasantly it had been wasted . But Mr. Ďela- warr knew well , " Tis folly to dream ...
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... feelings . A great change in life is like a cold bath in winter - we all hesitate at the first plunge.Affection is more matter of habit than sentiment , more so than we like to admit and she was leaving both habits and affections behind ...
... feelings . A great change in life is like a cold bath in winter - we all hesitate at the first plunge.Affection is more matter of habit than sentiment , more so than we like to admit and she was leaving both habits and affections behind ...
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Página 236 - For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass : for he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
Página 160 - High instincts before which our mortal Nature Did tremble like a guilty Thing surprised: But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing...
Página 215 - I ought to do — and did my best — And each did well in his degree. The youngest, whom my father loved, Because our mother's brow was given To him — with eyes as blue as heaven...
Página 71 - The Monk gazed long on the lovely moon, Then into the night he looked forth; And red and bright the streamers light Were dancing in the glowing north. So had he seen, in fair Castile, The youth in glittering squadrons start, Sudden the flying jennet wheel, And hurl the unexpected dart. He knew, by the streamers that shot so bright, That spirits were riding the northern light.
Página 66 - To again quote the oracles of my high-priest, Wordsworth, there is nothing like ' The harvest of a quiet eye, That broods and sleeps on its own heart.' What ' truths divine ' crowd every page of Wordsworth's writings ! I sometimes wish to be a modern Alexander, that I might have Mount Athos carved into, not my own statue, but his.
Página 160 - What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind; In the primal sympathy Which having been must ever be; In the soothing thoughts that spring Out of human suffering; In the faith that looks through death, In years that bring the philosophic mind.
Página 215 - Clan-Alpine's best are backward borne,— Where, where, was Roderick then ! One blast upon his bugle horn Were worth a thousand men.
Página 183 - Thus death reigns in all the portions of our time; the autumn with its fruits provides disorders for us, and the winter's cold turns them into sharp diseases, and the spring brings flowers to strew our hearse, and the summer gives green turf and brambles to bind upon our graves.