The Opal, Volume 2State Lunatic Asylum, 1852 |
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... seen a few other books - not They are very hastily sketched , —that is to say how many - such as some of the fol- said to be a quality of the very greatest lowing , namely : Poems , Plays and Essays , painters ; and we know they go to ...
... seen a few other books - not They are very hastily sketched , —that is to say how many - such as some of the fol- said to be a quality of the very greatest lowing , namely : Poems , Plays and Essays , painters ; and we know they go to ...
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... seen an old priest , companiments of death - shrieks , presents to who was possessed with the idea that he the beholder the radiance of her counte- was Christ . On his being once taunted nance - arainbow of immortal beauty gather- with ...
... seen an old priest , companiments of death - shrieks , presents to who was possessed with the idea that he the beholder the radiance of her counte- was Christ . On his being once taunted nance - arainbow of immortal beauty gather- with ...
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... seen the reason fairly and frankly stated , until we found it in a late number of the New - York Weekly Mirror.- Hear the honest and outspoken Editor ! " But let us not depart from the land - marks of the past , nor despise the peaceful ...
... seen the reason fairly and frankly stated , until we found it in a late number of the New - York Weekly Mirror.- Hear the honest and outspoken Editor ! " But let us not depart from the land - marks of the past , nor despise the peaceful ...
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... seen in Magazines . Gra- ham had it designed by a celebrated artist in dollars . Well , Paris , and it cost him , he says - ought to be a good one for that price , and is as any can see by looking at it . But for our part , we hate to ...
... seen in Magazines . Gra- ham had it designed by a celebrated artist in dollars . Well , Paris , and it cost him , he says - ought to be a good one for that price , and is as any can see by looking at it . But for our part , we hate to ...
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... seen The blossomed bean - field , and the sloping green , Leans o'er its humble gate , and thinks the while- Oh ! that for me some home like this would smile , Some hamlet shade , to yield my sickly form Health in the breeze , and ...
... seen The blossomed bean - field , and the sloping green , Leans o'er its humble gate , and thinks the while- Oh ! that for me some home like this would smile , Some hamlet shade , to yield my sickly form Health in the breeze , and ...
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Page 373 - It must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well ; Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? Tis the divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man...
Page 373 - Soon as the evening shades prevail The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth...
Page 333 - Treason, treason!" echoed from every part of the house. Henry faltered not for an instant, but, taking a loftier attitude, and fixing on the speaker an eye of fire, he added " may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it...
Page 88 - Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent ; Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect in a hair as heart ; As full, as perfect in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and burns. To Him no high, no low, no great, no small ; He fills, He bounds, connects and equals all.
Page 167 - The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven ; And, as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation, and a name. Such tricks hath strong imagination, That, if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends some bringer of that joy ; Or, in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear ! Hip.
Page 298 - These are the eternal immutable laws of good and evil, to which the Creator himself, in all his dispensations, conforms; and which he has enabled human reason to discover, so far as they are necessary for the conduct of human actions.
Page 88 - Were we to press, inferior might on ours; Or in the full creation leave a void, Where, one step broken, the great scale's destroy'd: From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. And, if each system in gradation roll Alike essential to th' amazing whole, The least confusion but in one, not all That system only, but the whole must fall.
Page 352 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death ! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded ; what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised ; thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet...
Page 86 - AWAKE, my St John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die...
Page 87 - Better for us, perhaps, it might appear, Were there all harmony, all virtue here; That never air or ocean felt the wind; That never passion discomposed the mind. But all subsists by elemental strife; And passions are the elements of life.