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... kind , we are aware , is to be formed without manifold and victorious strug- gling with the world ; and the narrative of such struggling , what little of it can be narrated and interpreted , will belong to the highest species of history ...
... kind , we are aware , is to be formed without manifold and victorious strug- gling with the world ; and the narrative of such struggling , what little of it can be narrated and interpreted , will belong to the highest species of history ...
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indeed , there are few Biographies that accomplish any thing of this kind ; the most are mere Indexes of a Biography , which each reader is to write out for himself , as he peruses them ; not the living body , but the dry bones of a ...
indeed , there are few Biographies that accomplish any thing of this kind ; the most are mere Indexes of a Biography , which each reader is to write out for himself , as he peruses them ; not the living body , but the dry bones of a ...
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... kind , however , becomes visible in the history of the Jodiz Parson : we find him a man powerful in his vocation ; loved and venerated by his flock ; nay associating at will , and ever as an honoured guest , with the gentry of Voigtland ...
... kind , however , becomes visible in the history of the Jodiz Parson : we find him a man powerful in his vocation ; loved and venerated by his flock ; nay associating at will , and ever as an honoured guest , with the gentry of Voigtland ...
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would have been a light matter to him ; for a kind mother , Nature herself , had already provided against it ; and , like the mother of Achilles , rendered him invulnerable to outward things . There was a bold , deep , joyful spirit ...
would have been a light matter to him ; for a kind mother , Nature herself , had already provided against it ; and , like the mother of Achilles , rendered him invulnerable to outward things . There was a bold , deep , joyful spirit ...
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... kind patroness , the Lady von Plotho , already mentioned , was in the habit of furnishing to his Father , not in separate sheets , but in sheaves monthly . This was the extent of his reading . Jodiz too was the most sequestered of all ...
... kind patroness , the Lady von Plotho , already mentioned , was in the habit of furnishing to his Father , not in separate sheets , but in sheaves monthly . This was the extent of his reading . Jodiz too was the most sequestered of all ...
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Page 137 - The roar of waters ! — from the headlong height Velino cleaves the wave-worn precipice The fall of waters ! rapid as the light The flashing mass foams shaking the abyss ; The hell of waters ! where they howl and hiss. And boil in endless torture ; while the sweat Of their great agony, wrung out from this Their Phlegethon, curls round the rocks of jet That gird the gulf around, in pitiless horror set...
Page 138 - It is not lessen'd ; but thy mind, Expanded by the genius of the spot, Has grown colossal, and can only find A fit abode wherein appear enshrined Thy hopes of immortality ; and thou Shalt one day, if found worthy, so defined, See thy God face to face, as thou dost now His Holy of Holies, nor be blasted by his brow.
Page 453 - Tis that enamoured Nightingale Who gives me the reply; He ever tells the same soft tale Of passion and of constancy To his mate, who rapt and fond. Listening sits, a bough beyond.
Page 4 - ... his writings, is one of perennial excellence; rare in all times and situations, and perhaps nowhere and in no time more rare than in literary Europe, at this era. We see in this man a high, self-subsistent, original, and, in many respects, even great character. He shows himself a man of wonderful gifts, and with, perhaps, a still happier combination and adjustment of these : in whom Philosophy and Poetry are not only reconciled; but blended together into a purer essence, into Religion...
Page 199 - Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a flea, and yet he will be making gods by dozens. Hear what Trismegistus says in praise of our sufficiency: "Of all the wonderful things, it surmounts all wonder, that man could find out the divine nature and make it.
Page 413 - I cumber you, good Margaret, much, but I would be sorry if it should be any longer than to-morrow, for it is St. Thomas' even and the Utas* of St. Peter; and therefore to-morrow long I to go to God. It were a day very meet and convenient for me.
Page 161 - ... judge is so clear and open as to declare against that impious vulgar opinion that the devil himself has power to torment and kill innocent children, or that he is pleased to divert himself with the good people's cheese, butter, pigs and geese, and the like errors of the ignorant and foolish rabble, the countrymen (the triers) cry, this judge hath no religion, for he doth not believe witches ; and so, to show they have some, hang the poor wretches.
Page 189 - ... who rightly understands himself will never mistake another man's work for his own, but will love and improve himself above all other things, will refuse superfluous employments, and reject all unprofitable thoughts and propositions.
Page 138 - Enter : its grandeur overwhelms thee not ; And why ? It is not lessened ; but thy mind, Expanded by the genius of the spot, Has grown colossal...
Page 116 - ... thumbs on the pit of the stomach and the other fingers below the ribs. Then you will descend slowly along the body as far as the knees, or better, and, if you can without incommoding yourself, to the extremity of the feet.