Attractions of Language, Or A Popular View of Natural Language: In All Its Varied Displays, in the Animate and Inanimate World; and as Corresponding with Instinct, Intelligence and Reason ... |
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... Heaven and Earth ; their language ; the stars ' lesson of humility and hope ; the morning star ; its language ; the Polar Star ; Comets ; the extinguished star ; its language ; our neighbor in the Universe ; the fall of Niagara ; the ...
... Heaven and Earth ; their language ; the stars ' lesson of humility and hope ; the morning star ; its language ; the Polar Star ; Comets ; the extinguished star ; its language ; our neighbor in the Universe ; the fall of Niagara ; the ...
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... heaven of truth ; now breaking into a torrent of impetuous and impassioned eloquence , and now swelling and undulating into song ! Such is Language - the mirror of the soul - catching its most delicate hues , its most fleeting emo ...
... heaven of truth ; now breaking into a torrent of impetuous and impassioned eloquence , and now swelling and undulating into song ! Such is Language - the mirror of the soul - catching its most delicate hues , its most fleeting emo ...
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... heavens above ; how language is as essential to thought , as it is to the expression of it ; of thought , the birthright of mind wherever found , in the mines of Peru or the forests of Honduras ; had I known how much all this was the ...
... heavens above ; how language is as essential to thought , as it is to the expression of it ; of thought , the birthright of mind wherever found , in the mines of Peru or the forests of Honduras ; had I known how much all this was the ...
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... Heaven removed , " which latter fancy of the poet , one is more than half inclined to believe , upon finding a weed bearing a strong family re- semblance to the pig - weed , that worthy representative in the vegetable world , of its ...
... Heaven removed , " which latter fancy of the poet , one is more than half inclined to believe , upon finding a weed bearing a strong family re- semblance to the pig - weed , that worthy representative in the vegetable world , of its ...
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... heaven ! There , sure enough it is , just heaving into view ; a brilliant world ! " O you only mean a star then . " Only , reader ! What are all the scenes which you and I admired so much , compared with that bright evening star ...
... heaven ! There , sure enough it is , just heaving into view ; a brilliant world ! " O you only mean a star then . " Only , reader ! What are all the scenes which you and I admired so much , compared with that bright evening star ...
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Page 84 - There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast — The desert and illimitable air — Lone wandering, but not lost. All day thy wings have fanned, At that far height, the cold, thin atmosphere; Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome land. Though the dark night is near.
Page 84 - Thou'rt gone, the abyss of heaven Hath swallowed up thy form ; yet, on my heart Deeply hath sunk the lesson thou hast given, And shall not soon depart. He who, from zone to zone, Guides through the boundless sky thy certain flight, In the long way that I must tread alone, Will lead my steps aright.
Page 84 - At that far height, the cold thin atmosphere, Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome land, Though the dark night is near. And soon that toil shall end; Soon shalt thou find a summer home, and rest, And scream among thy fellows ; reeds shall bend, Soon, o'er thy sheltered nest.
Page 84 - midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.
Page 80 - O'er thymy downs she bends her busy course, And many a stream allures her to its source. 'T is noon, 't is night. That eye so finely wrought, Beyond the search of sense, the soar of thought, Now vainly asks the scenes she left behind ; Its orb so full, its vision so confined ! Who guides the patient pilgrim to her cell...
Page 27 - The eternal regions : lowly reverent Towards either throne they bow, and to the ground With solemn adoration down they cast Their crowns inwove with amarant and gold ; Immortal amarant, a flower which once In Paradise, fast by the tree of life, Began to bloom...
Page 46 - There let the shepherd's flute, the virgin's lay, The prompting seraph, and the poet's lyre, Still sing the God of Seasons as they roll. For me — when I forget the darling theme, Whether the blossom blows, the summer ray...
Page 41 - Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth, seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The Lord is his name: that strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.
Page 25 - IN Eastern lands they talk in flowers, And they tell in a garland their loves and cares ; Each blossom that blooms in their garden bowers, On its leaves a mystic language bears.
Page 80 - Led by what chart, transports the timid dove The wreaths of conquest, or the vows of love ? Say, thro' the clouds what compass points her flight ? Monarchs have gazed, and nations blessed the sight.