Autobiographic Sketches, Volúmenes11-12Houghton, Mifflin, 1876 - 593 páginas |
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... seen something like the scene in Dutch paintings of the Temptation of St. Anthony . " Suppose the scene changed to a pleas- ant country - house , where the enlivening talk has made a guest forget ' The lang Scots miles , The mosses ...
... seen something like the scene in Dutch paintings of the Temptation of St. Anthony . " Suppose the scene changed to a pleas- ant country - house , where the enlivening talk has made a guest forget ' The lang Scots miles , The mosses ...
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... seen a sort of ruffle work inner wall of volumes , with their edges outward , while others , bound and unbound , the ple- beian sheepskin and the aristocratic Russian , were squeezed into certain tubs , 1 drawn from the washing ...
... seen a sort of ruffle work inner wall of volumes , with their edges outward , while others , bound and unbound , the ple- beian sheepskin and the aristocratic Russian , were squeezed into certain tubs , 1 drawn from the washing ...
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... seen that the hand of death was laid upon him . He had passed a quiet , but rather sleepless night , appearing much the same , yet more 6 On * De Quincey , at his death , had two sons and three daughters . The eldest of the daughters ...
... seen that the hand of death was laid upon him . He had passed a quiet , but rather sleepless night , appearing much the same , yet more 6 On * De Quincey , at his death , had two sons and three daughters . The eldest of the daughters ...
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... seen Rome ? Had I read Milton ? Had I heard Mozart ? No. St. Peter's , the " Paradise Lost , " the divine melodies of " Don Giovan · ni , ” all alike were as yet unrevealed to me , and not more through the accidents of my position than ...
... seen Rome ? Had I read Milton ? Had I heard Mozart ? No. St. Peter's , the " Paradise Lost , " the divine melodies of " Don Giovan · ni , ” all alike were as yet unrevealed to me , and not more through the accidents of my position than ...
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... seen an assertion which , to my own knowl- edge , he repeated in after years , and with enthusiasm . That he had some acquaintance with the subject may be presumed from this , that , at so early a stage of such inquiries , he had ...
... seen an assertion which , to my own knowl- edge , he repeated in after years , and with enthusiasm . That he had some acquaintance with the subject may be presumed from this , that , at so early a stage of such inquiries , he had ...
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Página 138 - Nor less I deem that there are Powers Which of themselves our minds impress; That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness.
Página 188 - Again the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and showeth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them ; and saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.
Página 584 - He who loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how shall he love God whom he hath not seen?
Página 188 - Thence to the gates cast round thine eye, and see What conflux issuing forth, or entering in ; Praetors, proconsuls to their provinces Hasting, or on return, in robes of state, Lictors and rods, the ensigns of their power, Legions and cohorts, turms of horse and wings: Or embassies from regions far remote, In various habits, on the Appian road...
Página 143 - Witch. WHEN shall we three meet again, In thunder, lightning, or in rain ? 2 Witch.
Página 251 - ... guile seduced, no force could violate; And, when she took unto herself a Mate, She must espouse the everlasting Sea. And what if she had seen those glories fade, Those titles vanish, and that strength decay; Yet shall some tribute of regret be paid When her long life hath reached its final day: Men are we, and must grieve when even the Shade Of that which once was great, is passed away.
Página 38 - Nothing met my eyes but one large window, wide open, through which the sun of midsummer at mid-day was showering down torrents of splendour. The weather was dry, the sky was cloudless, the blue depths seemed the express types of infinity ; and it was not possible for eye to behold, or for heart to conceive, any symbols more pathetic of life and the glory of life.
Página 147 - The pulses of the heart, the motions of the will, the phantoms of the brain, must repeat themselves in secret hieroglyphics uttered by the flying footsteps. Even the articulate or brutal sounds of the globe must be all so many languages and ciphers that somewhere have their corresponding keys — have their own grammar and syntax ; and thus the least things in the universe must be secret mirrors to the greatest.
Página 36 - Found scarcely any where in like degree! For love, that comes to all; the holy sense, Best gift of God, in thee was most intense; A chain of heart, a feeling of the mind, A tender sympathy, which did thee bind Not only to us Men, but to thy Kind : Yea, for thy Fellow-brutes in thee we saw The soul of Love, Love's intellectual law...
Página 66 - ... rear of that majestic substance which is the author of its existence. Books he detested, one and all, excepting only such as he happened to write himself. And these were not a few. On all subjects known to man, from the Thirty-nine Articles of our English Church, down to pyrotechnics, legerdemain, magic, both black and white, thaumaturgy, and necromancy, he favoured the world (which world was the nursery where I lived amongst my sisters) with his select opinions.