Peter's Letters to His Kinsfolk, Volumen1W. Blackwood, 1819 |
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... intel- lect ? Perhaps I am too much of a connoisseur to be a fair judge of such matters ; but I am very sure , that the mere handsomeness of a great man is one of the last things about him that fixes my attention . I do not wish ...
... intel- lect ? Perhaps I am too much of a connoisseur to be a fair judge of such matters ; but I am very sure , that the mere handsomeness of a great man is one of the last things about him that fixes my attention . I do not wish ...
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... intel- lectual history of the Ettrick Shepherd , when he drew that noble sketch , which no man can ridicule , unless from a vicious want of faith in the greatness of human nature . Neither is there any thing unlikely in the supposition ...
... intel- lectual history of the Ettrick Shepherd , when he drew that noble sketch , which no man can ridicule , unless from a vicious want of faith in the greatness of human nature . Neither is there any thing unlikely in the supposition ...
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... intel- ligent and well - educated men in this place have treated me , when I ventured in their presence to say a few words concerning that absurd kind of self - denial , abstinence , and mortificatio spiri- tus , which seems to be ...
... intel- ligent and well - educated men in this place have treated me , when I ventured in their presence to say a few words concerning that absurd kind of self - denial , abstinence , and mortificatio spiri- tus , which seems to be ...
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... intel- lectual chace with so much ardour ; but , as I ob- seryed before , it did not appear as if all his pu- pils were sufficiently well mounted or equipped to be able to keep up with him . His elocution is distinct and elegant , and ...
... intel- lectual chace with so much ardour ; but , as I ob- seryed before , it did not appear as if all his pu- pils were sufficiently well mounted or equipped to be able to keep up with him . His elocution is distinct and elegant , and ...
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... intel- lectual faculties , and upon the association of ideas , than upon human nature in general . There can be no doubt that the mind is , like physical nature , a theatre of causes and effects ; but it appears extremely doubtful ...
... intel- lectual faculties , and upon the association of ideas , than upon human nature in general . There can be no doubt that the mind is , like physical nature , a theatre of causes and effects ; but it appears extremely doubtful ...
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Página 179 - Urania, I shall need Thy guidance, or a greater Muse, if such Descend to earth or dwell in highest heaven ! For I must tread on shadowy ground, must sink Deep, and, aloft ascending, breathe in worlds To which the heaven of heavens is but a veil. All strength, all terror, single or in bands, That ever was put forth in personal form — Jehovah, with his thunder, and the choir Of shouting Angels, and the empyreal thrones, — I pass them unalarmed.
Página 134 - I AM a son of Mars, Who have been in many wars, And show my cuts and scars Wherever I come ; This here was for a wench, And that other in a trench, When welcoming the French At the sound of the drum.
Página 141 - From that bleak tenement He, many an evening, to his distant home In solitude returning, saw the hills Grow larger in the darkness ; all alone Beheld the stars come out above his head, And travelled through the wood, with no one near To whom he might confess the things he saw.
Página 179 - Not Chaos, not The darkest pit of lowest Erebus, Nor aught of blinder vacancy — scooped out By help of dreams, can breed such fear and awe As fall upon us often when we look Into our minds, into the mind of man, My haunt, and the main region of my song.
Página 134 - And now a widow, I must mourn The pleasures that will ne'er return; No comfort but a hearty can, When I think on John Highlandman. RECITATIVO A pigmy scraper, wi...
Página 110 - Muse's lyre. Not beggar's brat on bulk begot ; Not bastard of a pedlar Scot ; Not boy brought up to cleaning shoes, The spawn of Bridewell or the stews...
Página 141 - He had small need of books ; for many a tale Traditionary, round the mountains hung, And many a legend, peopling the dark woods, Nourished Imagination in her growth, And gave the Mind that apprehensive power By which she is made quick to recognise The moral properties and scope of things.
Página 115 - Compound for sins they are inclined to By damning those they have no mind to.
Página 234 - Though Nature could not touch his heart By lovely forms and silent weather, And tender sounds, yet you might see At once, that Peter Bell and she Had often been together. A savage wildness round him hung As of a dweller out of doors ; In his whole figure and his mien A savage character was seen, Of mountains and of dreary moors.
Página 139 - His face and hands are still as brown as if he had lived entirely sub dio. His very hair has a coarse stringiness about it, which proves beyond dispute its utter ignorance of all the arts of the friseur ; and hangs in playful whips and cords about his ears, in a style of the most perfect innocence imaginable.