The Poetry of Life, Volume 2Carey, Lea, and Blanchard, 1835 - Life |
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... familiar theme , with multitudes who know nothing of its re- finements , and high capabilities . The universal tendency of love to exalt its object , is a fact which at once gives it impor- tance , dignity , and refinement . Importance ...
... familiar theme , with multitudes who know nothing of its re- finements , and high capabilities . The universal tendency of love to exalt its object , is a fact which at once gives it impor- tance , dignity , and refinement . Importance ...
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... familiar feeling , associating itself with mankind in their daily walk , and en- tering into the ordinary and domestic scenes of life ; it therefore speaks in a language simple and familiar , scarcely admitting of poetical ornament ...
... familiar feeling , associating itself with mankind in their daily walk , and en- tering into the ordinary and domestic scenes of life ; it therefore speaks in a language simple and familiar , scarcely admitting of poetical ornament ...
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... familiar to every reader of taste and sensibility to need repetition here , as well as those to Highland Mary , equally expres- sive of ardent and poetical feeling , a feeling which all the rough usages of the world were unable to ...
... familiar to every reader of taste and sensibility to need repetition here , as well as those to Highland Mary , equally expres- sive of ardent and poetical feeling , a feeling which all the rough usages of the world were unable to ...
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... with present things , and because the beings around it are too gross or too familiar to offer that refined communion for which it ever pines , it pours forth in poetic strains the transcript of its THE POETRY OF GRIEF . 45.
... with present things , and because the beings around it are too gross or too familiar to offer that refined communion for which it ever pines , it pours forth in poetic strains the transcript of its THE POETRY OF GRIEF . 45.
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... familiar , sweet or soothing , good or great , which does not set the gloomy and morbid imagination afloat upon " a sea of troubles " and it is this exuberance of fancy , this illimitable range of thought , this fertility of the mind in ...
... familiar , sweet or soothing , good or great , which does not set the gloomy and morbid imagination afloat upon " a sea of troubles " and it is this exuberance of fancy , this illimitable range of thought , this fertility of the mind in ...
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Page 140 - Entreat me not to leave thee, Or to return from following after thee ; For whither thou goest, I will go ; And where thou lodgest, I will lodge ; Thy people shall be my people, And thy God, my God ; Where thou diest, will I die, And there will I be buried ; The Lord do so to me, And more also, If aught but death part thee and me.
Page 271 - And chiefly Thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for Thou know'st ; Thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread Dovelike satst brooding on the vast abyss, And madest it pregnant: What in me is dark, Illumine; what is low, raise and support...
Page 267 - He, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower. His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than Archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured...
Page 130 - And Cain talked with Abel his brother : and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.
Page 160 - There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun, who rideth upon the heaven in thy help, and in his excellency on the sky. The eternal God is thy refuge; and underneath are the everlasting arms; and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee, and shall, say, Destroy them.
Page 159 - When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
Page 277 - I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her siren daughters...
Page 270 - Heaven thou wert ; and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite.
Page 153 - And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.
Page 158 - Who is like unto thee, O Lord, among the Gods? who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?