Blindness; or, The second sense restored and lost, a poem1839 - 80 pages |
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... hopes , our lowest fears : - what all the beauties of nature strewn around us ? but Poetry ! And yet there are those , who imagine they flatter their own vanity by affecting to deny all its in- fluences . Poetry is said , however , to ...
... hopes , our lowest fears : - what all the beauties of nature strewn around us ? but Poetry ! And yet there are those , who imagine they flatter their own vanity by affecting to deny all its in- fluences . Poetry is said , however , to ...
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... hopes that the many descriptions given of nature will afford pleasure to the reader ; but though such vast improvement has been made of late in the tuition of the Blind ; to them , in many cases , this work may be more the poetry of ...
... hopes that the many descriptions given of nature will afford pleasure to the reader ; but though such vast improvement has been made of late in the tuition of the Blind ; to them , in many cases , this work may be more the poetry of ...
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... hope denied the blind - The decay of sight by age - Different climates -Loss of vision - Reminiscences of former scenes - Description of external nature for the pleasure of the blind - Rural scenes in Scotland - The Dusky Glen ...
... hope denied the blind - The decay of sight by age - Different climates -Loss of vision - Reminiscences of former scenes - Description of external nature for the pleasure of the blind - Rural scenes in Scotland - The Dusky Glen ...
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... this world is sick , Finds Death's cold summon calmly seek Him home to his sweet repose ! Why should a poor man fear to die ? He has few hopes , to bind to this His tortured Soul . Let him not sigh ; The 34 THE SECOND SENSE.
... this world is sick , Finds Death's cold summon calmly seek Him home to his sweet repose ! Why should a poor man fear to die ? He has few hopes , to bind to this His tortured Soul . Let him not sigh ; The 34 THE SECOND SENSE.
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... hopes : " Shall I not have a name , - A Kingly name , that makes the vulgar stare , And bend in low obeisance as I pass , To revel in the vortex of the great ! ! " Death walk'd behind him , as his shadow walk'd , 36 THE SECOND SENSE.
... hopes : " Shall I not have a name , - A Kingly name , that makes the vulgar stare , And bend in low obeisance as I pass , To revel in the vortex of the great ! ! " Death walk'd behind him , as his shadow walk'd , 36 THE SECOND SENSE.
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Page 174 - To a poet nothing can be useless. Whatever is beautiful, and whatever is dreadful, must be familiar to his imagination : he must be conversant with all that is awfully vast or elegantly little.
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Page 137 - When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay, and said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing.
Page 135 - Therefore, the poet Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods Since nought so stockish, hard, and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils ; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.
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Page 174 - The plants of the garden, the animals of the wood, the minerals of the earth, and meteors of the sky, must all concur to store his mind with inexhaustible variety : for every idea is useful for the enforcement or decoration of moral or religious truth ; and he, who knows most, will have most power of diversifying his scenes, and of gratifying his reader with remote allusions and unexpected instruction. " All the appearances of nature I was therefore careful to study, and every country which I have...