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... course of study has been perverted , and thought still more deeply : but not having suf- ficiently founded his principles on the rock of morality and revealed religion , either owing to inad- vertency , or a too great confidence in the ...
... course of study has been perverted , and thought still more deeply : but not having suf- ficiently founded his principles on the rock of morality and revealed religion , either owing to inad- vertency , or a too great confidence in the ...
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... course of read- ing , he skimmed with volatile eagerness along the gayer and more pleasing paths of literature : he flew from author to author , as the bee sips the sweets from every flower , without troubling herself with inquiries ...
... course of read- ing , he skimmed with volatile eagerness along the gayer and more pleasing paths of literature : he flew from author to author , as the bee sips the sweets from every flower , without troubling herself with inquiries ...
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... course of his boyhood , the most indefatigable exertions had been used to build a firm superstructure upon it . Having therefore been beforehand furnished with arms , and well in- structed in the art of wielding them , he had now a ...
... course of his boyhood , the most indefatigable exertions had been used to build a firm superstructure upon it . Having therefore been beforehand furnished with arms , and well in- structed in the art of wielding them , he had now a ...
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... course ; an old deed , to which , for decency's sake , they felt themselves obliged to put their signatures , at the re commendation of parents , or from the force of general example ; the validity of which they never , in- deed ...
... course ; an old deed , to which , for decency's sake , they felt themselves obliged to put their signatures , at the re commendation of parents , or from the force of general example ; the validity of which they never , in- deed ...
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... course a disagreeable task to speak with severity of a schoolfellow ; and I shall therefore only allude to ' The Salt - bearer ' as far as is necessary for the prosecution of my own tion of the work , though disap- pointed and disgusted ...
... course a disagreeable task to speak with severity of a schoolfellow ; and I shall therefore only allude to ' The Salt - bearer ' as far as is necessary for the prosecution of my own tion of the work , though disap- pointed and disgusted ...
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Popular passages
Page 102 - She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely Apparition sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair; Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful Dawn; A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay.
Page 222 - Of aspect more sublime: that blessed mood In which the burthen of the mystery, In which the heavy and the weary weight Of all this unintelligible world, Is lightened; that serene and blessed mood, In which the affections gently lead us on, Until, the breath of this corporeal frame And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul; While with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.
Page 313 - Beyond the shadow of the ship, I watched the water-snakes: They moved in tracks of shining white, And when they reared, the elfish light Fell off in hoary flakes. "Within the shadow of the ship I watched their rich attire: Blue, glossy green, and velvet black, They coiled and swam; and every track Was a flash of golden fire.
Page 222 - Hence in a season of calm weather Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.
Page 313 - twas like all instruments. Now like a lonely flute; And now it is an angel's song That makes the heavens be mute. It ceased; yet still the sails made on A pleasant noise till noon, A noise like of a hidden brook, In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune.
Page 225 - If thou be one whose heart the holy forms Of young imagination have kept pure, Stranger ! henceforth be warned; and know, that pride, Howe'er disguised in its own majesty, Is littleness; that he, who feels contempt For any living thing, hath faculties Which he has never used; that thought with him 50 Is in its infancy.
Page 313 - O happy living things ! no tongue Their beauty might declare: A spring of love gushed from my heart, And I blessed them unaware: Sure my kind saint took pity on me, And I blessed them unaware.
Page 285 - There's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away, When the glow of early thought declines in feeling's dull decay : 'Tis not on youth's smooth cheek the blush alone, which fades so fast, But the tender bloom of heart is gone, ere youth itself be past.
Page 182 - Now forging scrolls, now foremost in the fight, Not quite a felon, yet but half a knight, The gibbet or the field prepared to grace ; A mighty mixture of the great and base.
Page 101 - Turn away thine eyes from me, for they have overcome me : thy hair is as a flock of goats that appear from Gilead.