The Port FolioEditor and Asbury Dickens, 1808 |
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Pàgina 4
... spirits , strenuously to endeavour to rise above the mists of obscurity ; and that without alertness , we shall but little surpass the brute creation , who are doomed by nature to grovel on the earth . In another passage , he exclaims ...
... spirits , strenuously to endeavour to rise above the mists of obscurity ; and that without alertness , we shall but little surpass the brute creation , who are doomed by nature to grovel on the earth . In another passage , he exclaims ...
Pàgina 7
... spirit of the authours he converses with , improves in reason and good sense , and the knowledge of men and inanners . It is ridiculous to pretend , as some have done , that the know- ledge of the world is not to be acquired from books ...
... spirit of the authours he converses with , improves in reason and good sense , and the knowledge of men and inanners . It is ridiculous to pretend , as some have done , that the know- ledge of the world is not to be acquired from books ...
Pàgina 12
... spirits , by a calm night's rest at the inn . The next day came a mirthful being in whom the American traveller will recognize " Father Thomas , " his cheerfulness and indiscriminate civility , seemed the re- sult of kindness of heart ...
... spirits , by a calm night's rest at the inn . The next day came a mirthful being in whom the American traveller will recognize " Father Thomas , " his cheerfulness and indiscriminate civility , seemed the re- sult of kindness of heart ...
Pàgina 16
... spirit , his works would have been still more creditable to himself , and more useful to mankind . that his aversion to words of foreign genius by too close an application to original and his desire on all occasions to do honour to his ...
... spirit , his works would have been still more creditable to himself , and more useful to mankind . that his aversion to words of foreign genius by too close an application to original and his desire on all occasions to do honour to his ...
Pàgina 20
... spirit of those great men with whom we converse , and the most distinguished of these were admirers of phi losophy , and studied it as far as their cir- cumstances permitted . The greatest men were always lovers of knowledge , and even ...
... spirit of those great men with whom we converse , and the most distinguished of these were admirers of phi losophy , and studied it as far as their cir- cumstances permitted . The greatest men were always lovers of knowledge , and even ...
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Pàgina 71 - Churchyard" abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo. The four stanzas, beginning "Yet even these bones," are to me original; I have never seen the notions in any other place, yet he that reads them here persuades himself that he has always felt them. Had Gray written often thus, it had been vain to blame and useless to praise him.
Pàgina 29 - O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness...
Pàgina 237 - They say it was a shocking sight After the field was won ; For many thousand bodies here Lay rotting in the sun : But things like that, you know, must be After a famous victory. 'Great praise the Duke of Marlbro* won And our good Prince Eugene;' 'Why 'twas a very wicked thing !' Said little Wilhelmine; 'Nay . . nay . . my little girl,' quoth he, 'It was a famous victory.
Pàgina 100 - ... glistering with dew, fragrant the fertile earth after soft showers, and sweet the coming on of grateful evening mild, then silent night with this her solemn bird, and this fair moon and these the gems of heaven, her starry train.
Pàgina 41 - The forward violet thus did I chide : Sweet thief, whence didst thou steal thy sweet that smells, If not from my love's breath ? The purple pride Which on thy soft cheek for complexion dwells In my love's veins thou hast too grossly dyed.
Pàgina 100 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening
Pàgina 237 - Old Kaspar took it from the boy, Who stood expectant by; And then the old man shook his head, And with a natural sigh, ' 'Tis some poor fellow's skull,' said he, 'Who fell in the great victory.
Pàgina 93 - Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him : every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an ear-ring of gold.
Pàgina 219 - Celestial odours breathe through purpled air; And wings, whose colours glitter'd on the day, Wide at his back their gradual plumes display. The form ethereal bursts upon his sight, And moves in all the majesty of light...
Pàgina 35 - Yea, ye yourselves know, that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me. I have showed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.