Works, Volumen10Houghton Mifflin, 1883 |
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... seem busied for hours and days in peregrina- tions over seas and lands , in earnest dialogues , strenuous actions for nothings and absurdities , cheated by spectral jokes and waking suddenly with ghastly laughter , to be rebuked by the ...
... seem busied for hours and days in peregrina- tions over seas and lands , in earnest dialogues , strenuous actions for nothings and absurdities , cheated by spectral jokes and waking suddenly with ghastly laughter , to be rebuked by the ...
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... seems to be the foremost trait of dreams . A painful imperfection almost always at- tends them . The fairest forms ... seem not to fit us , but like a coat or cloak of some other person to overlap and en- cumber the wearer ; so is the ...
... seems to be the foremost trait of dreams . A painful imperfection almost always at- tends them . The fairest forms ... seem not to fit us , but like a coat or cloak of some other person to overlap and en- cumber the wearer ; so is the ...
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... seems to predom- inate over the genius of man , in Kalmuck or Malay or Flathead Indian , we are sometimes pained by ... seem to us to suggest an abundance and fluency of thought not familiar to the waking experience . They pique us by ...
... seems to predom- inate over the genius of man , in Kalmuck or Malay or Flathead Indian , we are sometimes pained by ... seem to us to suggest an abundance and fluency of thought not familiar to the waking experience . They pique us by ...
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... seem to be unlocked , and a freer utter- ance attained . A prophetic character in all ages has haunted them . They are the maturation often of opinions not consciously carried out to statements , but whereof we already possessed the ...
... seem to be unlocked , and a freer utter- ance attained . A prophetic character in all ages has haunted them . They are the maturation often of opinions not consciously carried out to statements , but whereof we already possessed the ...
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... seem , as he looks at them now , to have been supernaturally deprived of injurious in- fluence on him . His eyes were holden that he could not see . But he learns that such risks he may no longer run . He observes , with pain , not that ...
... seem , as he looks at them now , to have been supernaturally deprived of injurious in- fluence on him . His eyes were holden that he could not see . But he learns that such risks he may no longer run . He observes , with pain , not that ...
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Página 96 - 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; Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence: truths that wake, To perish never...
Página 98 - Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply, — "Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die.
Página 230 - So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.
Página 449 - The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length the middle-aged man concludes to build a wood-shed with them.
Página 311 - Instead of the social existence which all shared, was now separation. Every one for himself; driven to find all his resources, hopes, rewards, society and deity within himself. The young men were born with knives in their brain, a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives.
Página 96 - Blank misgivings of a Creature Moving about in worlds not realized, 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 352 - If the assembly was disorderly, it was picturesque. Madmen, madwomen, men with beards, Dunkers, Muggletonians, Come-outers, Groaners, Agrarians, Seventh-day Baptists, Quakers, Abolitionists, Calvinists, Unitarians, and Philosophers, — all came successively to the top and seized their moment, if not their hour, wherein to chide, or pray, or preach, or protest.
Página 444 - Now chiefly is my natal hour. And only now my prime of life; I will not doubt the love untold. Which not my worth nor want have bought, Which wooed me young, and wooes me old, And to this evening hath me brought.
Página 444 - ... and a turtle-dove, and am still on their trail. Many are the travellers I have spoken concerning them, describing their tracks, and what calls they answered to. I have met one or two who had heard the hound, and the tramp of the horse, and even seen the dove disappear behind a cloud; and they seemed as anxious to recover them as if they had lost them themselves.
Página 336 - I have never got over my surprise that I should have been born into the most estimable place in all the world, and in the very nick of time too.