The Recreations of Christopher North, Volumen2William Blackwood & sons, 1842 |
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... rest . " His eyes are dazzled no more with insufferable light - no more his ears tingle with music too exquisite to be borne - no more his touch is transport . The scents of nature , stealing from the balmy mouths of lilies and roses ...
... rest . " His eyes are dazzled no more with insufferable light - no more his ears tingle with music too exquisite to be borne - no more his touch is transport . The scents of nature , stealing from the balmy mouths of lilies and roses ...
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... rest to be long- ing for the motion already beginning to rustle by fits along the silvan shores . Perhaps a deer or two - but we have opened a corner of the fringed curtains of our eyes the idea is gone - and Turner or Thomson must ...
... rest to be long- ing for the motion already beginning to rustle by fits along the silvan shores . Perhaps a deer or two - but we have opened a corner of the fringed curtains of our eyes the idea is gone - and Turner or Thomson must ...
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... rest the work of high but not superior hands . Imagination , who limns in air , has none of those difficul- ties to contend with that always beset , and often baffle , artists in oils or waters . At a breath she can modify , alter ...
... rest the work of high but not superior hands . Imagination , who limns in air , has none of those difficul- ties to contend with that always beset , and often baffle , artists in oils or waters . At a breath she can modify , alter ...
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... rest , nay , dash the dust from her hand that she has gathered from the burial - place to strew on her head ; but Youth sees flowery fields and shining rivers far - stretching be- fore her path , and cannot imagine for a moment that ...
... rest , nay , dash the dust from her hand that she has gathered from the burial - place to strew on her head ; but Youth sees flowery fields and shining rivers far - stretching be- fore her path , and cannot imagine for a moment that ...
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... rest , or for religion , where as kings we may reign , as priests minister , as saints adore . We do not deny , excellent youth , that to your eyes and ears beautiful and sublime are the sights and sounds of Nature — and of Art her ...
... rest , or for religion , where as kings we may reign , as priests minister , as saints adore . We do not deny , excellent youth , that to your eyes and ears beautiful and sublime are the sights and sounds of Nature — and of Art her ...
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Adam Morrison bagpipe beauty beneath Black Loch blessing bosom braes breath bright Brown Bess Christian Christopher North cliffs clouds creatures Cruachan Dalmally daugh death delight divine Dr Johnson dream dwelling earth eyes face fear feel feet felt Flora flowers genius glen Glenlivet Gleno gloom glory green greensward Hamish hand happy head hear heard heart heather heaven Highland hills holy hour human imagination inspired light living Loch Loch Awe Logan look May-day mercy moor moral Mount Pleasant mountains nature never night O'Bronte once Ossian passion piety poem poet poetry Ranald religion round sacred Scotland seemed seen shadow Shelty shepherd silent silvan sing sitting smile snow song soul spirit stars sublime sugh sweet thee thou thought touch tree uncon voice whole wild wind Windermere wings wonder woods words
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Página 134 - Live you ? or are you aught That man may question ? You seem to understand me, By each at once her choppy finger laying Upon her skinny lips. — You should be women, And yet your beards forbid me to interpret That you are so.
Página 59 - The fig-tree, not that kind for fruit renown'd, But such as, at this day, to Indians known, In Malabar or Decan spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade, High overarch'd, and echoing walks between...
Página 379 - When they had heard the king they departed; and lo the star, which they saw in the east, went before them till it came and stood over where the young child was. When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great joy.
Página 350 - So still an image of tranquillity, So calm and still, and looked so beautiful Amid the uneasy thoughts which filled my mind...
Página 27 - Bear me to the heart of France Is the longing of the shield — Tell thy name, thou trembling field! Field of death, where'er thou be, Groan thou with our victory! Happy day, and mighty hour, When our shepherd, in his power, Mailed and horsed with lance and sword, To his ancestors restored, Like a re-appearing star, Like a glory from afar, First shall head the flock of war!
Página 377 - Yea, though I walk in death's dark vale, Yet will I fear none ill ; For thou art with me ; and thy rod And staff me comfort still.
Página 347 - She was a woman of a steady mind, Tender and deep in her excess of love, Not speaking much, pleased rather with the joy Of her own thoughts : by some especial care Her temper had been framed, as if to make A being — who by adding love to peace Might live on earth a life of happiness.
Página 197 - That, in the merry months o' spring, Delighted me to hear thee sing, What comes o
Página 332 - Lastly, whatsoever in religion is holy and sublime, in virtue amiable or grave, whatsoever hath passion or admiration in all the changes of that which is called fortune from without, or the wily subtleties and refluxes of man's thoughts from within ; all these things with a solid and treatable smoothness to paint out and describe.
Página 332 - ... to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility, to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in right tune; to celebrate in glorious and lofty hymns the throne and equipage of God's almightiness, and what he works, and what he suffers to be wrought with high providence in his church...