The Solitudes of Nature and of Man; Or The Loneliness of Human LifeRoberts Brothers, 1869 - 412 páginas |
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... darkness into a sheet of fire . There are ant - hills , animated cities whose inhab- itants outnumber Jeddo and Pekin . Villages of beavers build in company . Shaggy hosts of bisons shake the globe with the dull thunder of their tread ...
... darkness into a sheet of fire . There are ant - hills , animated cities whose inhab- itants outnumber Jeddo and Pekin . Villages of beavers build in company . Shaggy hosts of bisons shake the globe with the dull thunder of their tread ...
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... dark , swimming veil occasionally lets a ray of the sun dart through a rent into the bosom of the forest . These sudden flashes of light give to the appalling depths in the shadow something haggard and strange , like a smile on the lips ...
... dark , swimming veil occasionally lets a ray of the sun dart through a rent into the bosom of the forest . These sudden flashes of light give to the appalling depths in the shadow something haggard and strange , like a smile on the lips ...
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... darkness and hail , drift by . The moon , rapidly hidden and shown by the clouds , hangs in the empty air and glares at us on a level with our eyes . Uplifted thus amidst the uncompanionable concave , a crushing sense of loneliness , of ...
... darkness and hail , drift by . The moon , rapidly hidden and shown by the clouds , hangs in the empty air and glares at us on a level with our eyes . Uplifted thus amidst the uncompanionable concave , a crushing sense of loneliness , of ...
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... dark and blind ! Is that where fancy cannot dupe the mind ; Where the heart , sick , despondent , tired with all , Looks joyless round , and sees the dungeon wall . So long as the fluent and refluent tides of thought and feel- ing ...
... dark and blind ! Is that where fancy cannot dupe the mind ; Where the heart , sick , despondent , tired with all , Looks joyless round , and sees the dungeon wall . So long as the fluent and refluent tides of thought and feel- ing ...
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... dark barrier between him and his fellows . The solitude of blindness is pre - emi- nently deep and oppressive . And it is pathetic to think how many great men have , like Homer and Milton , had the windows of their souls thus closed ...
... dark barrier between him and his fellows . The solitude of blindness is pre - emi- nently deep and oppressive . And it is pathetic to think how many great men have , like Homer and Milton , had the windows of their souls thus closed ...
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The Solitudes of Nature and of Man: Or, the Loneliness of Human Life William Rounseville Alger Vista previa limitada - 2021 |
The Solitudes of Nature and of Man: Or, the Loneliness of Human Life William Rounseville Alger Vista previa limitada - 2021 |
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admiration affection amidst ancholy aspiration beautiful better blessed bosom Brahmans breath character Charles Lamb charm choly Cicero communion consciousness contempt crowd Dante dark death deep delight desert desire divine earth emotions eternal evil experience eyes faith fame fancy fear feeling fellowship gaze genius Goethe grief happiness hate heart heaven Hegel human idea ideal imagination isolation JAMES MARTINEAU Jesus live loneliness lonely lonesome look Madame Swetchine mankind Maurice de Guérin meditation melan melancholy ment mind misanthrope misery moral morbid multitude muse mystery nature ness never noble pain passion pathy peace Petrarch philosopher pity Plato poem poet pride race religious retirement retreat rience says scorn seclusion secret selfish sentiment sigh silence social society solitary solitude sorrow soul spirit sublime suffered superiority sweet sympathy tender things thou thought tion true truth unhappy vanity Vaucluse vulgar weary WILLIAM ROUNSEVILLE ALGER wisdom wonder