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... rare degree of self - control , she regulated her conduct by the strictest law of propriety . She was too generous to fol- low out her inclinations , even if she felt them perfectly justifiable , at the expense of others . But while in ...
... rare degree of self - control , she regulated her conduct by the strictest law of propriety . She was too generous to fol- low out her inclinations , even if she felt them perfectly justifiable , at the expense of others . But while in ...
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... rare in the world , is that people usually choose to dissipate instead of concentrating their feelings . Amusement is the very food of being to the majority of those who are not compelled by necessity to daily toil . To triumph in the ...
... rare in the world , is that people usually choose to dissipate instead of concentrating their feelings . Amusement is the very food of being to the majority of those who are not compelled by necessity to daily toil . To triumph in the ...
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... rare purity of mind ; but one good has been denied them , one destiny they have as yet failed to achieve their hearts are undeveloped . The legitimate object of their affections has not appeared . The richest phase of their existence ...
... rare purity of mind ; but one good has been denied them , one destiny they have as yet failed to achieve their hearts are undeveloped . The legitimate object of their affections has not appeared . The richest phase of their existence ...
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... rare in which this sentiment is vivi- fied and elevated into positive affection . And few , I ap- prehend , among the wits and poets of old England , have more widely awakened it than Oliver Goldsmith . I have said this kind of literary ...
... rare in which this sentiment is vivi- fied and elevated into positive affection . And few , I ap- prehend , among the wits and poets of old England , have more widely awakened it than Oliver Goldsmith . I have said this kind of literary ...
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... rare excitement and only tinging , almost imperceptibly , the pictures of memory and hope . Burns turned to poetry as a requisite medium of expression , the natural language of his soul . Byron found in its free and glowing strains a ...
... rare excitement and only tinging , almost imperceptibly , the pictures of memory and hope . Burns turned to poetry as a requisite medium of expression , the natural language of his soul . Byron found in its free and glowing strains a ...
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Page 235 - Though I should gaze for ever On that green light that lingers in the west: I may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
Page 84 - Kent. Vex not his ghost. O, let him pass! He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer.
Page 223 - 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...
Page 60 - See the wretch, that long has tost On the thorny bed of pain, At length repair his vigour lost, And breathe and walk again : The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening paradise.
Page 250 - Until the poppied warmth of sleep oppress'd Her soothed limbs, and soul fatigued away ; Flown, like a thought, until the morrow-day ; Blissfully haven'd both from joy and pain; Clasp'd like a missal where swart Paynims pray; Blinded alike from sunshine and from rain, As though a rose should shut, and be a bud again.
Page 147 - The breath whose might I have invoked in song Descends on me; my spirit's bark is driven, Far from the shore, far from the trembling throng Whose sails were never to the tempest given; The massy earth and sphered skies are riven! I am borne darkly, fearfully, afar; Whilst burning through the inmost veil of Heaven, The soul of Adonais, like a star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are.
Page 310 - To him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty ; and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy that steals away Their sharpness ere he is aware.
Page 278 - Dower'd with the hate of hate, the scorn of scorn, The love of love.
Page 98 - I care not, fortune, what you me deny ; You cannot rob me of free nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face, You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve : Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, And I their toys to the great children leave : Of fancy, reason, virtue, nought can me bereave.
Page 192 - MINE be a cot beside the hill ; A bee-hive's hum shall soothe my ear; A willowy brook, that turns a mill, With many a fall shall linger near. The swallow, oft, beneath my thatch, Shall twitter from her clay-built nest; Oft shall the pilgrim lift the latch, And share my meal, a welcome guest.