Belford's Monthly and Democratic Review, Volum 10

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Belford, Clarke, 1893
 

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Pàgina 388 - I never was attached to that great sect Whose doctrine is that each one should select Out of the crowd a mistress or a friend, And all the rest, though fair and wise, commend To cold oblivion...
Pàgina 391 - Clothed him with the dominion of wide Heaven. To know nor faith, nor love, nor law, to be Omnipotent but friendless, is to- reign ; And Jove now reigned ; for on the race of man First famine, and then toil, and then disease, Strife, wounds, and ghastly death unseen before, Fell ; and the unseasonable seasons drove With alternating shafts of frost and fire, Their shelterless, pale tribes to mountain caves : And in their desert hearts fierce wants he sent, And mad disquietudes, and shadows idle Of...
Pàgina 395 - Believing as I do that man in the distant future will be a far more perfect creature than he now is, it is an intolerable thought that he and all other sentient beings are doomed to complete annihilation after such long-continued slow progress.
Pàgina 391 - Look on yonder earth : The golden harvests spring ; the unfailing sun Sheds light and life ; the fruits, the flowers, the trees, Arise in due succession ; all things speak Peace, harmony, and love. The universe, In nature's silent eloquence, declares That all fulfil the works of love and joy,— All but the outcast, Man.
Pàgina 298 - Neither was it mine adversary, that did magnify himself against me : for then peradventure I would have hid myself from him. 14 But it was even thou, my companion : my guide, and mine own familiar friend.
Pàgina 393 - Throughout this varied and eternal world Soul is the only element, the block That for uncounted ages has remained. The moveless pillar of a mountain's weight Is active, living spirit. Every grain Is sentient both in unity and part, And the minutest atom comprehends A world of loves and hatreds...
Pàgina 868 - I would with my own,' like the Duke of Newcastle, quickly decided how. She should end as Dido ended, that doll ! as the doll of a young lady in 'Virgil ' should end ! With her dresses, which were many and sumptuous, her fourposted bed, a faggot or two of cedar allumettes, a few sticks of cinnamon, a few cloves and a- — nutmeg ! I non ignara...
Pàgina 394 - We live and move and think ; but we are not the creators of our own origin and existence. We are not the arbiters of every motion of our own complicated nature ; we are not the masters of our own imaginations and moods of mental being.
Pàgina 395 - I believe in the immortality of the soul, not in the sense in which I accept• the demonstrable truths of science, but as a supreme act of faith in the reasonableness of God's work.
Pàgina 394 - Spirit of Nature ! thou Life of interminable multitudes ; Soul of those mighty spheres Whose changeless paths through Heaven's deep silence lie ; Soul of that smallest being, The dwelling of whose life Is one faint April sun-gleam...

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