The Spirit of the English MagazinesMonroe and Francis, 1828 |
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... bright and beautiful elements of imagination and sentiment with the every - day opinions of mankind , speaking in a tone of higher feel- ing than is current in the common walks of existence , and bringing toge- ther the moralities of ...
... bright and beautiful elements of imagination and sentiment with the every - day opinions of mankind , speaking in a tone of higher feel- ing than is current in the common walks of existence , and bringing toge- ther the moralities of ...
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... BRIGHT solitary beam , fair speck , That , calling all the stars to duty , Through stormless ether gleam'st to deck The fulgent west's unclouded beauty ; All silent are the fields , and still The umbrageous wood's recesses dreary , As ...
... BRIGHT solitary beam , fair speck , That , calling all the stars to duty , Through stormless ether gleam'st to deck The fulgent west's unclouded beauty ; All silent are the fields , and still The umbrageous wood's recesses dreary , As ...
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Bright leader of the hosts of Heaven ! When day from darkness God divided , In silence through Empyrean driven , Forth from the East thy chariot glided ; Star after star , o'er night and earth , Shone out in brilliant revelation ; And ...
Bright leader of the hosts of Heaven ! When day from darkness God divided , In silence through Empyrean driven , Forth from the East thy chariot glided ; Star after star , o'er night and earth , Shone out in brilliant revelation ; And ...
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... bright moonlight glittering through my window , I but- toned myself up , and sallied out for a ramble . I had not , however , gone far , when a dense fog arose , my path became hardly discernible , and the thick heavy dew dripped off my ...
... bright moonlight glittering through my window , I but- toned myself up , and sallied out for a ramble . I had not , however , gone far , when a dense fog arose , my path became hardly discernible , and the thick heavy dew dripped off my ...
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... bright consummate flower , " so starlike to our awakened imagination among the lowly grass - lovely , in- deed , to our admiring eyes , as any one of all the stars that , in their turn , did seem themselves like flowers in the blue ...
... bright consummate flower , " so starlike to our awakened imagination among the lowly grass - lovely , in- deed , to our admiring eyes , as any one of all the stars that , in their turn , did seem themselves like flowers in the blue ...
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Page 86 - Dear is that shed to which his soul conforms, And dear that hill which lifts him to the storms; And as a child, when scaring sounds molest, Clings close and closer to the mother's breast, So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more.
Page 87 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me ; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me : because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me : and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Page 107 - Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer : behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days : be thou faithful unto death ; and I will give thee a crown of life.
Page 25 - Search then the ruling passion: there, alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known; The fool consistent, and the false sincere; Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here.
Page 176 - It is our will That thus enchains us to permitted ill. We might be otherwise, we might be all We dream of happy, high, majestical. Where is the love, beauty and truth we seek, But in our mind? and if we were not weak, Should we be less in deed than in desire?' 'Ay, if we were not weak — and we aspire How vainly to be strong!' said Maddalo; 'You talk Utopia.
Page 108 - Thou hast a few names even in Sardis which have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with me in white: for they are worthy.
Page 247 - And how would his magnanimous spirit have been consoled amidst the afflictions of age and the cares of penury, the neglect of a fickle public, and the injustice of an ungrateful king, could he have anticipated the splendid empires which were to spread over the beautiful world he had discovered, and the nations, and tongues, and languages which were to fill its lands with his renown, and to revere and bless his name to the latest posterity...
Page 250 - The poetry of earth is never dead: When all the birds are faint with the hot Sun, And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead. That is the grasshopper's : he takes the lead In summer luxury — he has never done With his delights, for when tired out with fun, He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed.
Page 246 - We have already hinted at a peculiar trait in his rich and varied character; that ardent and enthusiastic imagination which threw a magnificence over his whole course of thought. Herrera intimates that he had a talent for poetry, and some slight traces of it are on record in the book of prophecies which he presented to the Catholic sovereigns. But his poetical temperament is discernible throughout all his writings and in all his actions. It spread a golden and glorious world around him, and tinged...
Page 107 - I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.