The Recreations of Christopher North, Volumen2William Blackwood & sons, 1842 |
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... head , who has observed you lying half - asleep on the greensward , to hang eavesdropping , as it were , over your most secret thoughts , which he whispers to the winds , and they to all the clouds ! Or for some grotesque and fantastic ...
... head , who has observed you lying half - asleep on the greensward , to hang eavesdropping , as it were , over your most secret thoughts , which he whispers to the winds , and they to all the clouds ! Or for some grotesque and fantastic ...
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... head - but we have clean forgotten the silver sound of the name of the county he encumbers . Ross - shire ? Nay , that won't do he never was at Tain . We are assured by Dr Reid's , Dr Beattie's , and Dugald Stewart's great Instinctive ...
... head - but we have clean forgotten the silver sound of the name of the county he encumbers . Ross - shire ? Nay , that won't do he never was at Tain . We are assured by Dr Reid's , Dr Beattie's , and Dugald Stewart's great Instinctive ...
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... head Star - bright appears . " Wordsworth appropriately places the birth of such a being in a humble dwelling in the Highlands of Scot- land . 66 Among the hills of Athol he was born ; Where on a small hereditary farm , An unproductive ...
... head Star - bright appears . " Wordsworth appropriately places the birth of such a being in a humble dwelling in the Highlands of Scot- land . 66 Among the hills of Athol he was born ; Where on a small hereditary farm , An unproductive ...
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... head or hand for bread ? Are the Polish patriots de- graded by working at eighteenpence a - day , without victuals , on embankments of railroads ? " At the risk of giving a shock to the prejudices of artificial society , I have ever ...
... head or hand for bread ? Are the Polish patriots de- graded by working at eighteenpence a - day , without victuals , on embankments of railroads ? " At the risk of giving a shock to the prejudices of artificial society , I have ever ...
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... head about his birth and parentage - for he was then very rich ; but you could not sit ten minutes in his company without feeling that he was " one of God Almighty's gentlemen , " belonging to the " aristocracy of Nature . " You have ...
... head about his birth and parentage - for he was then very rich ; but you could not sit ten minutes in his company without feeling that he was " one of God Almighty's gentlemen , " belonging to the " aristocracy of Nature . " You have ...
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Página 382 - These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins; these are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the first-fruits unto God and to the Lamb.
Página 235 - The Lord giveth, and the Lord ' taketh away ; blessed be the name of the Lord.
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 134 - That look not like the inhabitants o' the earth, And yet are on't ? 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.
Página 381 - 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 344 - In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call Earth, and, with low-thoughted care.
Página 354 - So still an image of tranquillity, So calm and still, and looked so beautiful Amid the uneasy thoughts which filled my mind...
Página 328 - The essence of poetry is invention ; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. The topics of devotion are few, and being few are universally known ; but few as they are, they can be made no more ; they can receive no grace from novelty of sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression.
Página 27 - ... starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills. In him the savage virtue of the race, Revenge, and all ferocious thoughts were dead Nor did he change ; but kept in lofty place The wisdom which adversity had bred. Glad were the vales, and every cottage hearth ; The shepherd lord was honoured more and more ; And, ages after he was laid in earth, "The good Lord Clifford
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!