Essays Critical and Imaginative, Volumen2W. Blackwood and sons, 1865 |
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... Nature , is to land you in the Region of Delight , and with a few directions , from which you will deviate as frequently and as far as you please , to send you with our blessing , like pilgrims towards her shrine among the sacred ...
... Nature , is to land you in the Region of Delight , and with a few directions , from which you will deviate as frequently and as far as you please , to send you with our blessing , like pilgrims towards her shrine among the sacred ...
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... natural gracefulness , can put on and off their large shady bonnets , pink - lined and rosy- ribanded , without ... nature are they as a bunch of carrots on a stall , and the glow of morn beginning to brighten the crest of the ...
... natural gracefulness , can put on and off their large shady bonnets , pink - lined and rosy- ribanded , without ... nature are they as a bunch of carrots on a stall , and the glow of morn beginning to brighten the crest of the ...
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... nature around the now lifeless porch of many a mountain- dwelling , deserted at dawn , but to be refilled with mirth and music at meridian ; for all purchases of household gear are over long before dinner - time . This is not Hawkshead ...
... nature around the now lifeless porch of many a mountain- dwelling , deserted at dawn , but to be refilled with mirth and music at meridian ; for all purchases of household gear are over long before dinner - time . This is not Hawkshead ...
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... Nature . " My soul leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky . " Leaps up ! Seeing the beautiful apparition from below , the soul , in the power of its love and joy , is suddenly with it in heaven . But our soul needs not to leap up ...
... Nature . " My soul leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky . " Leaps up ! Seeing the beautiful apparition from below , the soul , in the power of its love and joy , is suddenly with it in heaven . But our soul needs not to leap up ...
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... nature is displayed in a wonderful variety of hill and dale , wooded grounds , and buildings ; amongst the latter , Broughton Tower , seated on the crown of a hill , rising elegantly from the valley , is an object of extra- ordinary ...
... nature is displayed in a wonderful variety of hill and dale , wooded grounds , and buildings ; amongst the latter , Broughton Tower , seated on the crown of a hill , rising elegantly from the valley , is an object of extra- ordinary ...
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Página 172 - TO him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Página 192 - midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way...
Página 173 - So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, that moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Página 100 - WHEN cats run home and light is come, And dew is cold upon the ground, And the far-off stream is dumb, And the whirring sail goes round, And the whirring sail goes round ; Alone and warming his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits.
Página 108 - My life is dreary, He cometh not,' she said ; She said, ' I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead...
Página 189 - That lifts his tossing mane. A moment in the British camp — A moment — and away Back to the pathless forest, Before the peep of day. Grave men there are by broad Santee, Grave men with hoary hairs; Their hearts are all with Marion, For Marion are their prayers. And lovely ladies greet our band With kindliest welcoming, With smiles like those of summer, And tears like those of spring. For them we wear these trusty arms, And lay them down no more Till we have driven the Briton Forever from our...
Página 175 - Try their thin wings and dance in the warm beam That waked them into life. Even the green trees Partake the deep contentment ; as they bend To the soft winds, the sun from the blue sky Looks in and sheds a blessing on the scene. Scarce less the cleft-born wild-flower seems to enjoy Existence, than the winged plunderer That sucks its sweets.
Página 172 - Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again; And, lost each human trace, surrendering up Thine individual being, shalt thou go To mix forever with the elements, To be a brother to the insensible rock And to the sluggish clod, which the rude swain Turns with his share, and treads upon. The oak Shall send his roots abroad and pierce thy mould.
Página 175 - But Winter has yet brighter scenes, — he boasts Splendors beyond what gorgeous Summer knows ; Or Autumn, with his many fruits, and woods All flushed with many hues. Come, when the rains Have glazed the snow, and clothed the trees with ice; While the slant sun of February pours Into the bowers a flood of light.
Página 106 - A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet; A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food, For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.