Blindness; or, The second sense restored and lost, a poem1839 - 80 pages |
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Andrew Park. PREFACE . POETRY is acknowledged by all commentators to be a more pure and universal expression of the ten- dencies of human nature than prose . When GOD first spake to man , it was in the language of Poetry he was pleased ...
Andrew Park. PREFACE . POETRY is acknowledged by all commentators to be a more pure and universal expression of the ten- dencies of human nature than prose . When GOD first spake to man , it was in the language of Poetry he was pleased ...
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... pure , etherial spirit of the skies ! ' If aught existent can entrance our mind , And make the eye - less soul forget ' tis Blind ; ' Tis thy soft charm , persuasive on the ear , That makes the atmosphere of midnight clear ! Whether by ...
... pure , etherial spirit of the skies ! ' If aught existent can entrance our mind , And make the eye - less soul forget ' tis Blind ; ' Tis thy soft charm , persuasive on the ear , That makes the atmosphere of midnight clear ! Whether by ...
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... shrubs o'er - grown , With hanging walls of rugged moss - clad stone ; O'er rocks , in pearly puissance , distills A stream , pure from the heart - veins of the hills , While gentle poplars , and the dark - brow'd pine 42 THE SECOND SENSE.
... shrubs o'er - grown , With hanging walls of rugged moss - clad stone ; O'er rocks , in pearly puissance , distills A stream , pure from the heart - veins of the hills , While gentle poplars , and the dark - brow'd pine 42 THE SECOND SENSE.
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... pure , and glorious to our sight . To man no perfect knowledge yet is given Of your unfading , undulating light ! Night came , -Could sleep , whose power no frame denies , Seal with his signet my admiring eyes ? Ah , no ! He threw his ...
... pure , and glorious to our sight . To man no perfect knowledge yet is given Of your unfading , undulating light ! Night came , -Could sleep , whose power no frame denies , Seal with his signet my admiring eyes ? Ah , no ! He threw his ...
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... pure thoughts in the bosom's sacred keep ! - To see all fruits , all fields , all creeping things , All insects on their light unwearying wings ; And last to see myself.- Oh , what a thought ! Sensation strange upon my bosom wrought ...
... pure thoughts in the bosom's sacred keep ! - To see all fruits , all fields , all creeping things , All insects on their light unwearying wings ; And last to see myself.- Oh , what a thought ! Sensation strange upon my bosom wrought ...
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æther Alexander Lee ANDREW PICKEN annular eclipse beauteous beauty behold Blind bliss bosom bound bower breast breathe bright cataract charm clouds colours countless dark dazzling death deep dread dream earth fair fancy feel flowers gaze Glasgow gloom glory glow Goatfell halls hath heart Heaven hills King light London looks MARGARET BEAUFORT merry England mind mountains Music mystic Nature neath night Note o'er ocean palace pleasure rapture rays rear'd RESTORED AND LOST retina rill roll roll'd round sacred scene SECOND SENSE RESTORED seem'd shade sigh sight sings skies sleep smile soar soft song soul sparkling sphere spirit stars strange stream sublime sung sweet sweet inspiring thee thine THOMAS GODDEN thou thought throne trembling Twas universal song voice volume wander'd waves William Hawes wings wonder wondrous wrapt young youth zephyr
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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.
Page 137 - And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me ? And he said, Who art thou, Lord ? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest : it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
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.
Page 249 - This volume reminds us forcibly of that most delightful of all biographies, 'The Doctor,' to which indeed it is little if at all inferior." — BRITANNIA. " It is the pious offering of one who may be deemed a proper follower in the footsteps of that good man, Legh Richmond.
Page 142 - Improved upon the suggestions of his Wisdom, Bear Testimony to the Solidity of his Judgment, And to the estimation in which he was held. In every Part of the Civilized World, Which he traversed to reduce the Sum of Human Misery ; From the Throne to the Dungeon his Name was Mentioned With Respect, Gratitude, and Admiration.
Page 143 - June, 1790, a victim to the perilous and benevolent attempt to ascertain the cause of, and find an efficacious remedy for, the plague. He trod an open but unfrequented path to immortality, in the ardent and unremitted exercise of Christian charity.
Page 161 - Cheselden tells us that the first time the boy saw a black object it gave him great uneasiness; and that some time after, upon accidentally seeing a negro woman, he was struck with great horror at the sight.
Page 142 - This extraordinary man had the fortune to be honoured whilst living in the manner which his virtues deserved ; He received the thanks of both houses of the British and Irish Parliaments for his eminent services rendered to his country, and to mankind. Our national prisons and hospitals, improved upon the suggestion of his wisdom, bear testimony to the solidity of his judgment, and to the estimation in which he was held. In every part of the civilized world, which he traversed to reduce the sum of...
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...