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... learned to despise himself for gross impurity , he had not stop- ped half - way in his reformation . It had been well , that instead of lopping off the most prominent branches , he had torn up the roots also , and for ever withered the ...
... learned to despise himself for gross impurity , he had not stop- ped half - way in his reformation . It had been well , that instead of lopping off the most prominent branches , he had torn up the roots also , and for ever withered the ...
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... learned by heart , in his infancy , the heroic ballads of his nation . Amidst the solitary occupations of his rural labours , the soul of the ploughman fed itself with high thoughts of patriotism and religion , and with that happy in ...
... learned by heart , in his infancy , the heroic ballads of his nation . Amidst the solitary occupations of his rural labours , the soul of the ploughman fed itself with high thoughts of patriotism and religion , and with that happy in ...
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... learned , for I have appeared too late in the world and in Italy . To have done something , I should have had an education anala- gous to my pursuits , and this at your age . ' The self - educated are accordingly marked by strong ...
... learned , for I have appeared too late in the world and in Italy . To have done something , I should have had an education anala- gous to my pursuits , and this at your age . ' The self - educated are accordingly marked by strong ...
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... learned condemned as extravagant ; and Galileo abjured on his knees the philosophical truths he had ascertained . So has it been , too , with inferior spirits . Nothing can be more bitter to a man of genius , than to see the truth which ...
... learned condemned as extravagant ; and Galileo abjured on his knees the philosophical truths he had ascertained . So has it been , too , with inferior spirits . Nothing can be more bitter to a man of genius , than to see the truth which ...
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... learned men amongst you , and since I am from the Kinge's owne person sent hither unto you for the preser- vacion of your selves and all the Realme , I thinke it meete you give me some reason- able answeare . ' Wheareat everie man hold ...
... learned men amongst you , and since I am from the Kinge's owne person sent hither unto you for the preser- vacion of your selves and all the Realme , I thinke it meete you give me some reason- able answeare . ' Wheareat everie man hold ...
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Page 252 - Ocean and earth, the solid frame of earth And ocean's liquid mass, beneath him lay In gladness and deep joy. The clouds were touched. And in their silent faces did he read Unutterable love. Sound needed none. Nor any voice of joy ; his spirit drank The spectacle : sensation, soul, and form All melted into him ; they swallowed up His animal being ; in them did he live, And by them did he live ; they were his life.
Page 252 - Sound needed none, Nor any voice of joy ; his spirit drank The spectacle ; sensation, soul, and form All melted into him ; they swallowed up His animal being ; in them did he live, And by them did he live ; they were his life, In such access of mind, in such high hour Of visitation from the living God, Thought was not ; in enjoyment it expired.
Page 352 - Hail to the State of England ! And conjoin With this a salutation as devout, Made to the spiritual Fabric of her Church ; Founded in truth ; by blood of Martyrdom Cemented; by the hands of Wisdom reared In beauty of Holiness, with ordered pomp, Decent, and unreproved.
Page 257 - There came a respite to her pain; She from her prison fled; But of the vagrant none took thought; And where it liked her best she sought Her shelter and her bread. Among the fields she breathed again: The master-current of her brain Ran permanent and free; And, coming to the banks of Tone, There did she rest; and dwell alone Under the greenwood tree.
Page 549 - The soul of music slumbers in the shell, Till waked and kindled by the master's spell ; And feeling hearts — touch them but rightly — pour A thousand melodies unheard before...
Page 160 - Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Page 254 - The wind, the tempest roaring high, The tumult of a Tropic sky, Might well be dangerous food For him, a Youth to whom was given So much of earth, so much of Heaven, And such impetuous blood.
Page 149 - ... of a great staircase, I saw a gigantic hand in armour. In the evening I sat down and began to write, without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate. The work grew on my hands, and I grew fond of it. Add, that I was very glad to think of any thing rather than politics. In short, I was so engrossed with my tale, which I completed in less than two months...
Page 252 - My friend, enough to sorrow you have given, The purposes of wisdom ask no more : Be wise and cheerful ; and no longer read The forms of things with an unworthy eye. She sleeps in the calm earth, and peace is here.
Page 143 - Hindoos of the present day have no such views of the subject, but firmly believe in the real existence of innumerable gods and goddesses, who possess, in their own departments, full and independent power; and to propitiate them, and not the true God, are Temples erected, and ceremonies performed. There can be no doubt, however, and it is my whole design to prove, that every rite has its derivation from the allegorical adoration of the true Deity; but, at the present day, all this is forgotten; and...