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... seems to crass minds so distant and so misty , that a very small immediate gratification . quite hides it from view . We remember , as illustrative of this , a circum- His stance related by a neighbouring clergyman . parishioners were ...
... seems to crass minds so distant and so misty , that a very small immediate gratification . quite hides it from view . We remember , as illustrative of this , a circum- His stance related by a neighbouring clergyman . parishioners were ...
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... hundred a year to entertain precisely like a man with five thousand , and generally to present a false face to the world , and seem other than what one is . When will this curse of our civilised life cease ? 38 Archbishop Whately on Bacon .
... hundred a year to entertain precisely like a man with five thousand , and generally to present a false face to the world , and seem other than what one is . When will this curse of our civilised life cease ? 38 Archbishop Whately on Bacon .
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... seem far greater than it is ; and that much of what they now admire as originality and profound wisdom , would appear , if translated into common language , mere commonplace matter . Many a work of this description may remind one of the ...
... seem far greater than it is ; and that much of what they now admire as originality and profound wisdom , would appear , if translated into common language , mere commonplace matter . Many a work of this description may remind one of the ...
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... seem misty , vague , and unreal to the minds of most men . Nor would this difficulty be removed , even if the sound- est sense and the strongest truth had always filled those philosophic pages which we know too well have been more ...
... seem misty , vague , and unreal to the minds of most men . Nor would this difficulty be removed , even if the sound- est sense and the strongest truth had always filled those philosophic pages which we know too well have been more ...
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... seem to the common mind to be engaged with things which have but a ghostly and unsub- stantial existence . Even the strongest religious faith has to bewail that it falls so very far short of sight . Reality , in the impression of most ...
... seem to the common mind to be engaged with things which have but a ghostly and unsub- stantial existence . Even the strongest religious faith has to bewail that it falls so very far short of sight . Reality , in the impression of most ...
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Page 259 - Hear the sledges with the bells Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight...
Page 261 - Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken, "Doubtless," said I, "what it utters is its only stock and store, Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful disaster Followed fast and followed faster till his songs one burden bore: Till the dirges of his hope that melancholy burden bore Of 'Never— nevermore.
Page 194 - It is good in discourse, and speech of conversation, to vary, and intermingle speech of the present occasion with arguments, tales with reasons, asking of questions with telling of opinions, and jest with earnest; for it is a dull thing to tire, and, as we say now, to jade any thing too /far.
Page 257 - And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming, And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor: And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted — nevermore...
Page 260 - Till I scarcely more than muttered, "Other friends have flown before; On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before.
Page 17 - A MAN that is young in years may be old in hours, if he have lost no time. But that happeneth rarely. Generally, youth is like the first cogitations, not so wise as the second. For there is a youth in thoughts, as well as in ages. And yet the invention of young men is more lively than that of old ; and imaginations stream into their minds better, and as it were more divinely.
Page 135 - ... her bliss : She knows not what his greatness is, For that, for all, she loves him more. For him she plays, to him she sings Of early faith and plighted vows; She knows but matters of the house, And he, he knows a thousand things. Her faith is fixt and cannot move, She darkly feels him great and wise, She dwells on him with faithful eyes, ' I cannot understand : I love.
Page 270 - Looking about me upon the wide waste of liquid ebony on which we were thus borne, I perceived that our boat was not the only object in the embrace of the whirl. Both above and below us were visible fragments of vessels, large masses of building timber and trunks of trees, with many smaller articles, such as pieces of house furniture, broken boxes, barrels, and staves.
Page 51 - Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns.
Page 210 - He was not all alone ; around him grew A sylvan tribe of children of the chase, Whose young, unwakened world was ever new ; Nor sword nor sorrow yet had left a trace On her unwrinkled brow, nor could you view A frown on nature's or on human face : The freeborn forest found and kept them free, And fresh as is a torrent or a tree.