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The Bachelor's Wife: A Selection of Curious and Interesting Extracts, with ... - Page 402
by John Galt - 1824 - 444 pages
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Diamonds and Precious Stones: A Popular Account of Gems ...

Louis Dieulafait - Diamonds - 1874 - 320 pages
...work " not for a day, but for all time." PART X. Cutting. Setting. Engraving of Precious Stones. " There is a fire And motion of the soul, which will not dwell In its own narrow being." As we have already shown in our first part, precious stones are sometimes amorphous and sometimes crystallized>...
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The Irish Monthly Magazine, Volume 3

1875 - 738 pages
...in inaction. To him might, in his degree, be applied the noble lines of Byron about Napoleon : — " But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell, And there hath...a fire And motion of the soul which will not dwell Within its narrow limits, but aspire Beyond the titling medium of desire, And but once kindled, quenchless...
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Childe Harold's pilgrimage

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1877 - 192 pages
...thrown) Like stern Diogenes* to mock at men, For sceptred cynics earth were far too wide a den. 370 But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell,* And there hath...its own narrow being, but aspire Beyond the fitting med1um of desire ; 375 And, but once kindled, quenchless evermore, Preys upon high adventure, nor can...
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A dictionary of poetical illustrations

Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...been, Is misery, e'en though enthroned it were Under the cope of high imperial state. Joann,i Baillie. every grace, except the heart ! The Power, incensed, the pageant will desert, The pompous stra in the soul which will not dwell In its own narrow being, but aspire, Beyond the fitting medium of...
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The poetical works of lord Byron. Illustr. ed

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1879 - 290 pages
...thrown) Like stern Diogenes to mock at men ; For sceptred cynies earth were far too wide a den.' XLII. But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell, And there hath...its own narrow being, but aspire Beyond the fitting medinm of desire ; And, but once kindled, quenchless evermore, Preys upon high adventure, nor can tire...
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The poetical works of lord Byron, ed. with a critical mem. by W. M. Rossetti

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1880 - 630 pages
...were far too wide a den. XLII. But quiet to quick hosoms is a hell, And there hath heen thy hane ; nother race, When thou and thine, like me, are sped, May rescue thee from eart hemg, hut aspire Beyond the fitting medium of desire ; And, hut once kindled, quenchless evermore....
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The poetical works of lord Byron, with life

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1881 - 610 pages
...Diogenes to moek at men ; For seeptred eynies earth were far too wide a dan. XI.II. But quiet to quiek bosoms is a hell, And there hath been thy bane ; there is a fire And motion of the soul whieh will not dwell In its own narrow being, but n.-pire Beyond the fitting medium of desire ; And,...
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The Cyclopædia of Practical Quotations: English and Latin, with an Appendix ...

Quotations, English - 1882 - 1434 pages
...power to adjourn. Appoint appearance and return ? u. BDTLEK— Hudibnts. Pt. II. Canto U. Line 317, a. Ms Well that Rids Well. Act V. Sc. 3. Give me a staff of honor 10. Braou— Childe Harold. Canto III. St. 42. Nor ear can hear, nor tongue can tell The tortures of...
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New Elocution and Vocal Culture

Robert Kidd - Elocution - 1883 - 518 pages
...loudly blow Contending tempests on his naked head, And thus reward the toils to which those summits led. But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell, And there hath been thy bane; there is a fire And motion in the soul which will not dwell In its own narrow being, but aspire Beyond the fitting medium of desire;...
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New Elocution and Voice Culture

Robert Kidd - Elocution - 1883 - 518 pages
...loudly blow Contending tempests on his naked head, And thus reward the toils to which those summits led. But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell, And there hath been thy bane; there is a fire And motion in the soul which will not dwell In its own narrow being, but aspire And but once kindled, quenchless...
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