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Page 210 - and misery. -"All declare For what the Eternal Maker has ordained The powers of man : we feel within ourselves His energy divine: he tells the heart He meant, he made us to behold and love What he beholds and loves, the general orb Of life and being—to be great like him, Beneficent and active."—Akenside.
Page 129 - Such tricks hath strong imagination, That, if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends some bringer of that joy; Or, in the night imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a
Page 55 - unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin." These words appear to have no meaning, unless they signify that the extent of man's accountableness is commensurate with the degree of holy truth
Page 82 - Pilgrimage, and fell asleep at the moment he was reading this sentence—" Here the Khan Kubla commanded a palace to be built, and a stately garden thereunto." He continued in profound sleep about three hours, during which he had a vivid confidence that he composed from two to three hundred lines; if, as he says, that can be called composition in
Page 82 - says, that can be called composition in which all the images rose up before him as things with a parallel production of correspondent expressions. On awaking he appeared to have a distinct recollection of the whole, and
Page 147 - pleasures past, That youth and observation copied there ; And thy commandment all alone shall live Within the book and volume of my brain, Unmix'd with baser matter.
Page 239 - Aloud she cries This is the time ! enquire your destinies. He comes! behold the god ! Thus while she said, (And shivering at the sacred entry staid), Her colour changed; her face was not the same, And hollow groans from her deep spirit came. Her hair stood up; convulsive rage possessed Her trembling limbs; and heaved her labouring
Page 239 - Greater than human kind she seemed to look, And with an accent more than mortal spoke; Her staring eyes with sparkling fury roll, When all the god came rushing on her soul, Swiftly she turned and foaming as she spoke, At length her fury fell; her foaming ceased And ebbing in her soul the god decreased.
Page 32 - If she have no occupation she evidently amuses herself by imaginary dialogues, or by recalling past impressions; she counts with her fingers, or •spells out names of things which she has recently learned, in the manual alphabet of the deaf mutes. In this lonely self-communion, she seems to reason, reflect, and argue.
Page 33 - her neck and sought me eagerly, to say that she understood the string was from her home. The mother now tried to caress her, but poor Laura repelled her, preferring to be with her acquaintances. Another article from home was now given her, and she began to look much interested.