The Works of Professor Wilson of the University of Edinburgh: Essays critical and imaginativeW. Blackwood, 1865 |
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... passing by rows of poplars , which we knew from the sweet scent were more than budding in the sunshine . When a bee hummed past us about the suburbs , we pretended not to hear her ; and as to the sparrows , why , they twitter all the ...
... passing by rows of poplars , which we knew from the sweet scent were more than budding in the sunshine . When a bee hummed past us about the suburbs , we pretended not to hear her ; and as to the sparrows , why , they twitter all the ...
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... and other celebrated works ! Fain would we now , fancy - led , float down with the foam- bells , till " We passed where Newark's stately towers Look out from Yarrow's birchen bowers . " But lo ! Altrive , the abode of our own STREAMS . 9.
... and other celebrated works ! Fain would we now , fancy - led , float down with the foam- bells , till " We passed where Newark's stately towers Look out from Yarrow's birchen bowers . " But lo ! Altrive , the abode of our own STREAMS . 9.
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... passing paragraph , but shall have a leading article to itself , as surely as we know how to honour worth and genius . We called thee , Yarrow , The Beloved of Bards of Old ! Ay ! flowing in the brightness of thy own peace along the ...
... passing paragraph , but shall have a leading article to itself , as surely as we know how to honour worth and genius . We called thee , Yarrow , The Beloved of Bards of Old ! Ay ! flowing in the brightness of thy own peace along the ...
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... passed over the moon , and , with a choral lament , the funeral troop sailed duskily away , heard afar off , so still was the midnight solitude of the glen . Then the disenthralled Orchy began to rejoice as before , through all her ...
... passed over the moon , and , with a choral lament , the funeral troop sailed duskily away , heard afar off , so still was the midnight solitude of the glen . Then the disenthralled Orchy began to rejoice as before , through all her ...
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... passing Lord of Session assists us to mount the box ( our great - coat having kept that chosen seat for its master ) -all right , and off she goes at a spanking long trot , that , in little better than an hour , will carry us out of the ...
... passing Lord of Session assists us to mount the box ( our great - coat having kept that chosen seat for its master ) -all right , and off she goes at a spanking long trot , that , in little better than an hour , will carry us out of the ...
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The Works of Professor Wilson of the University of Edinburgh: Essays ... John Wilson Vista completa - 1856 |
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Página 203 - With mazy error under pendent shades Ran Nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice art In beds and curious knots, but nature boon Pour'd forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain...
Página 11 - But thou, that didst appear so fair To fond imagination, Dost rival in the light of day Her delicate creation : Meek loveliness is round thee spread, A softness still and holy ; The grace of forest charms decayed, And pastoral melancholy.
Página 79 - AWAKE, my St. John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan : A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot; Or garden, tempting with forbidden fruit.
Página 396 - So still an image of tranquillity, So calm and still, and looked so beautiful Amid the uneasy thoughts which filled my mind, That what we feel of sorrow and despair From ruin and from change, and all the grief The passing shows of Being leave behind, Appeared an idle dream, that could not live Where meditation was. I turned away, And walked along my road in happiness.
Página 270 - I saw her upon nearer view A spirit, yet a woman too ! Her household motions light and free, And steps of virgin liberty ; 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.
Página 132 - Oh that I had the wings of a dove, that I might flee away and be at rest;" for I felt that there could be no rest for me in the midst of such outrages and pollutions.
Página 397 - Farewell, farewell the heart that lives alone, Housed in a dream, at distance from the kind ! Such happiness, wherever it be known, Is to be pitied ; for 'tis surely blind. But welcome fortitude, and patient cheer, And frequent sights of what is to be borne ! Such sights, or worse, as are before me here. — Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.
Página 243 - Thelwall, and ye that lecture as ye go, "And for your pains get pelted, praise Lepaux. " Praise him each Jacobin, or fool, or knave, " And your cropped heads in sign of worship wave. "All creeping creatures, venomous and low...