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... opinion a school was a school , she sent her to one of the nearest , and sooth to say , not one of the best . Still it was a place where to teach and to learn were the avowed occupations of the day , where the materials for acquiring ...
... opinion a school was a school , she sent her to one of the nearest , and sooth to say , not one of the best . Still it was a place where to teach and to learn were the avowed occupations of the day , where the materials for acquiring ...
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... opinions , with the taciturn , unpre- tending , yet high - styled man , whom she now called her pastor ; but she caught herself paying un- wonted heed to his remarks , which in the midst of their simplicity , generally enshrined some ...
... opinions , with the taciturn , unpre- tending , yet high - styled man , whom she now called her pastor ; but she caught herself paying un- wonted heed to his remarks , which in the midst of their simplicity , generally enshrined some ...
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... opinion ) that which would call it a world of inferences . If two persons , one a lady , the other a gentleman , but not therefore of necessity hero and heroine , are introduced to each other in domestic life , instantly comes an ...
... opinion ) that which would call it a world of inferences . If two persons , one a lady , the other a gentleman , but not therefore of necessity hero and heroine , are introduced to each other in domestic life , instantly comes an ...
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... opinion still , that your having wholly , and all at once , plunged your spirit into an intellectual fountain of emotion , of which Goëthe and Schiller , Petrarch and de Staël , and Shelley , and a dozen others , are the presiding ...
... opinion still , that your having wholly , and all at once , plunged your spirit into an intellectual fountain of emotion , of which Goëthe and Schiller , Petrarch and de Staël , and Shelley , and a dozen others , are the presiding ...
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... opinion and character in general . I can conceive all this , if , to speak in your own style , you have not dissolved your pearl - if you are not losing your relish for domestic life - if you are not filing away the individuality of ...
... opinion and character in general . I can conceive all this , if , to speak in your own style , you have not dissolved your pearl - if you are not losing your relish for domestic life - if you are not filing away the individuality of ...
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Page 158 - Yet if we could scorn Hate and pride and fear; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground ! Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know, Such harmonious madness From my lips would flow, The world should listen then — as I am listening now.
Page 255 - For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground; yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
Page 320 - Stern Lawgiver! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace; Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face: Flowers laugh before thee on their beds And fragrance in thy footing treads; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong; And the most ancient heavens, through thee, Are fresh and strong.
Page 66 - My soul is an enchanted boat, Which, like a sleeping swan, doth float Upon the silver waves of thy sweet singing ; And thine doth like an angel sit Beside the helm conducting it, Whilst all the winds with melody are ringing. It seems to float ever, for ever, Upon that many-winding river, Between mountains, woods, abysses, A paradise of wildernesses ! Till, like one in slumber bound Borne to the ocean, I float down, around, Into a sea profound of ever-spreading sound.
Page 184 - But if fortune once do frown, Then farewell his great renown : They that fawn'd on him before, Use his company no more. He that is thy friend indeed. He will help thee in thy need ; If thou sorrow, he will weep ; If thou wake, he cannot sleep : Thus of every grief in heart He with thee doth bear a part. These are certain signs to know Faithful friend from flattering foe.
Page 158 - All the earth and air With thy voice is loud, As, when night is bare, From one lonely cloud The moon rains out her beams, and Heaven is overflowed.
Page 199 - So I returned and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter. Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.
Page 93 - He looks and laughs at a' that. A prince can mak' a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that; But an honest man's aboon his might, Guid faith, he mauna fa' that! For a
Page 231 - Egeria was totally different from any other woman I had ever seen, either in Italy or England. She did not dazzle, she subdued me. Other women might be more commanding, more versatile, more acute ; but I never saw one so exquisitely feminine.
Page 225 - There was a Power in this sweet place, An Eve in this Eden; a ruling grace Which to the flowers did they waken or dream, Was as God is to the starry scheme. A Lady, the wonder of her kind, Whose form was upborne by a lovely mind Which, dilating, had moulded her mien and motion Like a sea-flower unfolded beneath the ocean...