The Works of Professor Wilson of the University of Edinburgh: Essays critical and imaginativeW. Blackwood, 1865 |
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... spirit for a storm - clunk plays the bolt to the strong - wrenched key in the hand of the porter - there is motion visible in the waggon , and the perceptive faculty finally admits that there is a Flitting . All the miseries above has ...
... spirit for a storm - clunk plays the bolt to the strong - wrenched key in the hand of the porter - there is motion visible in the waggon , and the perceptive faculty finally admits that there is a Flitting . All the miseries above has ...
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... spirit all the streams are one that flow through the Forest . And you too , Ettrick and Yarrow , gathering them all together , come rushing into each other's arms , aboon the haughs o ' Selkirk , and then flow , Tweed - blent , to the ...
... spirit all the streams are one that flow through the Forest . And you too , Ettrick and Yarrow , gathering them all together , come rushing into each other's arms , aboon the haughs o ' Selkirk , and then flow , Tweed - blent , to the ...
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... spirit , Wordsworth , of that divine strain thou didst breathe , in thy inspiration , when first thy thoughtful eyes beheld the stream that had so long mur- mured in the light of song . " Delicious is the lay that sings The haunts of ...
... spirit , Wordsworth , of that divine strain thou didst breathe , in thy inspiration , when first thy thoughtful eyes beheld the stream that had so long mur- mured in the light of song . " Delicious is the lay that sings The haunts of ...
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... spirit shrinks from supersti tion into atheism — and all creeds are dashed into oblivion by the appalling roar . But a still small voice is heard within my heart - the voice of conscience — and its whispers shall be heard when all the ...
... spirit shrinks from supersti tion into atheism — and all creeds are dashed into oblivion by the appalling roar . But a still small voice is heard within my heart - the voice of conscience — and its whispers shall be heard when all the ...
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... spirit of beauty over- flows the solitary place , and may have settled , but for a morning hour , on the Highland maiden , apparelled after the fashion of her native hills . Yet , methinks that glowing head borrows not its lustre from ...
... spirit of beauty over- flows the solitary place , and may have settled , but for a morning hour , on the Highland maiden , apparelled after the fashion of her native hills . Yet , methinks that glowing head borrows not its lustre from ...
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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...