The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster].Edward Moxon, 44, Dover Street., 1846 - 675 páginas |
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... hath scattered the crowd of heathen gods as if a thunderbolt had fallen in the midst of them . Now , I am confident you never would have assailed the false religion , unless you were pre- pared for the reception of the true . For it hath ...
... hath scattered the crowd of heathen gods as if a thunderbolt had fallen in the midst of them . Now , I am confident you never would have assailed the false religion , unless you were pre- pared for the reception of the true . For it hath ...
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... hath also the advantage of a cautious and a measured step . It hath pleased God to blind you , like all the other adversaries of our faith but he has given you no staff to lean upon . You object against us the very vices from which we ...
... hath also the advantage of a cautious and a measured step . It hath pleased God to blind you , like all the other adversaries of our faith but he has given you no staff to lean upon . You object against us the very vices from which we ...
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... hath hung the destiny of nations . On a winged word hath human wisdom been willing to cast the immortal soul , and to leave it dependent for all its future happiness . It is because a word is unsusceptible of explanation , or because ...
... hath hung the destiny of nations . On a winged word hath human wisdom been willing to cast the immortal soul , and to leave it dependent for all its future happiness . It is because a word is unsusceptible of explanation , or because ...
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... hath any truth or influence , her professors will extinguish the promontory lights , which only allure to breakers . They will be assiduous in teaching the young and ardent that great abilities do not con- stitute great men , without ...
... hath any truth or influence , her professors will extinguish the promontory lights , which only allure to breakers . They will be assiduous in teaching the young and ardent that great abilities do not con- stitute great men , without ...
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... hath but recently washed her hands from blood , and stands neutrally by , yes worse than neutrally , while others shed it . I am convinced that no day of my life will be so cen- sured by my own clergy , as this , the day on which the ...
... hath but recently washed her hands from blood , and stands neutrally by , yes worse than neutrally , while others shed it . I am convinced that no day of my life will be so cen- sured by my own clergy , as this , the day on which the ...
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Página 60 - In utter darkness, and their portion set As far removed from God and light of Heaven, As from the centre thrice to the utmost pole.
Página 61 - Awaiting what command their mighty chief Had to impose : he through the armed files Darts his experienced eye, and soon traverse The whole battalion views, their order due, * Their visages and stature as of gods ; Their number last he sums. And now his heart Distends with pride, and hardening in his strength Glories...
Página 136 - Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets : I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
Página 170 - What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones The labour of an age in piled stones ? Or that his hallowed reliques should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid ? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What needst thou such weak witness of thy name ? Thou in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a livelong monument.
Página 354 - Love pouted, and rumpled and bent down with his forefinger the stiff short feathers on his arrow-head, but replied not. Although he frowned worse than ever, and at me, I dreaded him less and less, and scarcely looked toward him. The milder and calmer genius, the third, in proportion as I took courage to contemplate him, regarded me with more and more complacency.
Página 480 - If happiness is immortality, (And whence enjoy it else the gods above ?) I am immortal too : my vow is heard . . Hark ! on the left . . Nay, turn not from me now, I claim my kiss.
Página 70 - Obscured, where highest woods, impenetrable To star or sun-light, spread their umbrage broad And brown as evening ! cover me, ye pines, Ye cedars, with innumerable boughs Hide me, where I may never see them more...
Página 480 - Even among the fondest of them all, What mortal or immortal maid is more Content with giving happiness than pain ? One day he was returning from the wood Despondently.
Página 68 - Ceased warbling, but all night tuned her soft lays: Others on silver lakes and rivers bathed Their downy breast; the swan with arched neck Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows Her state with oary feet: yet oft they quit The dank, and rising on stiff pennons, tower The mid aerial sky: others on ground...
Página 468 - I cannot tell how long it was before a species of dream or vision came over me. Two beautiful youths appeared beside me ; each was winged ; but the wings were hanging down, and seemed ill adapted to flight. One of them, whose voice was the softest I ever heard, looking at me frequently, said to the other, " He is under my guardianship for the present ; do not awaken him with that feather.