Peter's Letters to His Kinsfolk, Volumen1W. Blackwood, 1819 |
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... nature - how insignifi- cant the being that forms a scarcely distin- guishable speck in that huge sweep of congrega . ted existence - yet how noble the spirit which has called together that mass - which rules and guides 6 EDINBURGH .
... nature - how insignifi- cant the being that forms a scarcely distin- guishable speck in that huge sweep of congrega . ted existence - yet how noble the spirit which has called together that mass - which rules and guides 6 EDINBURGH .
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... spirit must be immortal on which so glorious a tenement has been bestowed ! With this divine exception , I must do the men the justice to say , that the most beautiful women in the room were all matrons . Had she been absent , there ...
... spirit must be immortal on which so glorious a tenement has been bestowed ! With this divine exception , I must do the men the justice to say , that the most beautiful women in the room were all matrons . Had she been absent , there ...
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... spirit , that they darted for some minutes from object to object , and refused , for the first time , to settle themselves even upon the features of a man of genius - to them , of all human things , the most potent attractions . I find ...
... spirit , that they darted for some minutes from object to object , and refused , for the first time , to settle themselves even upon the features of a man of genius - to them , of all human things , the most potent attractions . I find ...
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... spirit and mus- cular strength in so venerable an old gentleman , and could not forbear from complimenting him on his revival of the ancient peripatetic ideas , about the necessity of cultivating the external as well as the internal ...
... spirit and mus- cular strength in so venerable an old gentleman , and could not forbear from complimenting him on his revival of the ancient peripatetic ideas , about the necessity of cultivating the external as well as the internal ...
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... spirits of the man are abso- lutely miraculous . When one considers what a life of exertion he has led for these last twenty years ; how his powers have been kept on the rack such a length of time with writing , and concocting , and ...
... spirits of the man are abso- lutely miraculous . When one considers what a life of exertion he has led for these last twenty years ; how his powers have been kept on the rack such a length of time with writing , and concocting , and ...
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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.