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Page 64
... less than puffing advertisements of particular shrines and relics , or more criminal impositions in support of a creed out- worn , strongly marked by the unima- ginative sameness and vulgarity which almost always adhere to venal false ...
... less than puffing advertisements of particular shrines and relics , or more criminal impositions in support of a creed out- worn , strongly marked by the unima- ginative sameness and vulgarity which almost always adhere to venal false ...
Page 73
... less dingy than that of the outer apartment , because the inner room was less often filled with smoke : on one side a kind of chimney bulged out from the wall , a few feet from the ground ; beneath which a flag - stone , without a grate ...
... less dingy than that of the outer apartment , because the inner room was less often filled with smoke : on one side a kind of chimney bulged out from the wall , a few feet from the ground ; beneath which a flag - stone , without a grate ...
Page 82
... less acquainted with it than themselves would dare to follow . Two of them , however , who were so unlucky as to tumble over each other in their flight , and thereby overthrow a wall of peats upon themselves , were so entangled as to be ...
... less acquainted with it than themselves would dare to follow . Two of them , however , who were so unlucky as to tumble over each other in their flight , and thereby overthrow a wall of peats upon themselves , were so entangled as to be ...
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... less actuated by hostility to Popish superstitions , than by a cautious an- xiety for the discovery and establish- ment of truth ; and proceeded in the great work of unfolding the genuine doctrines of the Gospel , which had been so long ...
... less actuated by hostility to Popish superstitions , than by a cautious an- xiety for the discovery and establish- ment of truth ; and proceeded in the great work of unfolding the genuine doctrines of the Gospel , which had been so long ...
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... less labour , and to reduce wages . The loss of profits and capital to the em- ployer must for ever be the loss of competence and bread to the employ- ed . The sufferings of your farmers have taken an enormous portion of employment from ...
... less labour , and to reduce wages . The loss of profits and capital to the em- ployer must for ever be the loss of competence and bread to the employ- ed . The sufferings of your farmers have taken an enormous portion of employment from ...
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Page 591 - Poems was to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them, throughout, as far as was possible in a selection of language really used by men, and, at the same time, to throw over them a certain colouring of imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect...
Page 165 - Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, there shall also this, that this woman hath done, be told for a memorial of her.
Page 585 - THE cock is crowing, The stream is flowing, The small birds twitter, The lake doth glitter, The green field sleeps in the sun ; The oldest and youngest Are at work with the strongest ; The cattle are grazing, Their heads never raising ; There are forty feeding like one ! Like an army defeated The Snow hath retreated, And now doth fare ill On the top of the bare hill...
Page 199 - A blank, my lord. She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief.
Page 452 - Phoebus lifts his golden fire : The birds in vain their amorous descant join, Or cheerful fields resume their green attire. These ears, alas ! for other notes repine ; A different object do these eyes require ; My lonely anguish melts no heart but mine ; And in my breast the imperfect joys expire...
Page 452 - It will easily be perceived, that the only part of this Sonnet which is of any value is the lines printed in Italics ; it is equally obvious, that, except in the rhyme, and in the use of the single word
Page 451 - For the human mind is capable of being excited without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this, and who does not further know, that one being is elevated above another, in proportion as he possesses this capability.
Page 450 - ... the passions of men are incorporated with the beautiful and permanent forms of nature.
Page 553 - And ever against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running; Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony: That Orpheus...
Page 191 - Have with our needles created both one flower. Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key ; As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds, Had been incorporate. So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted ; But yet a union in partition, Two lovely berries moulded on one stem : So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart, Two of the first, like coats in heraldry, Due but to one, and crowned with one crest.