Concealment [by lady M. Richardson]. |
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... human error ; I hope an uncommon one ; but you shall hear it , and to tell the truth I have long wished you to be acquainted with it ; it recalls some very , very mournful days , and you know I am a cowardly person in such cases . " Her ...
... human error ; I hope an uncommon one ; but you shall hear it , and to tell the truth I have long wished you to be acquainted with it ; it recalls some very , very mournful days , and you know I am a cowardly person in such cases . " Her ...
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... human nature , my patience is somewhat tried ; but I do not speak , -I only resolve to act , and I find that composure in my own thoughts , of which they endeavour to deprive me . My resolves are these : To cut off the entail of my ...
... human nature , my patience is somewhat tried ; but I do not speak , -I only resolve to act , and I find that composure in my own thoughts , of which they endeavour to deprive me . My resolves are these : To cut off the entail of my ...
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... human being shall presume to say he did not feel it ? His was a melancholy in- stance of a life spent in doing much that was right , and feeling much that was wrong . The good he did , was not so much a movement of the heart , as of the ...
... human being shall presume to say he did not feel it ? His was a melancholy in- stance of a life spent in doing much that was right , and feeling much that was wrong . The good he did , was not so much a movement of the heart , as of the ...
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... human nature , if her very lofty stan- dard had not raised her above the measurements of earth , and fixed her stedfast eye , where the highest earthly excellence must still look up- at the foot of the cross ; not looking down upon the ...
... human nature , if her very lofty stan- dard had not raised her above the measurements of earth , and fixed her stedfast eye , where the highest earthly excellence must still look up- at the foot of the cross ; not looking down upon the ...
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... one may feel affection , and be disappointed in its return - the other cannot be disappointed , for she expects nothing - she loses her own individuality , and becomes a part of the mass , not of human nature , 106 CONCEALMENT .
... one may feel affection , and be disappointed in its return - the other cannot be disappointed , for she expects nothing - she loses her own individuality , and becomes a part of the mass , not of human nature , 106 CONCEALMENT .
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Page 59 - O, speak again, bright angel! for thou art As glorious to this night, being o'er my head, As is a winged messenger of heaven Unto the white-upturned wondering eyes Of mortals that fall back to gaze on him, When he bestrides the lazy-pacing clouds And sails upon the bosom of the air.
Page 3 - If she come in, she'll sure speak to my wife : My wife ? my wife ? what wife ! I have no wife. O, insupportable ! O heavy hour ! Methinks it should be now a huge eclipse Of sun and moon, and that the affrighted globe Should yawn at alteration.
Page 21 - Each in his hidden sphere of joy or woe Our hermit spirits dwell, and range apart, Our eyes see all around in gloom or glow Hues of their own, fresh borrowed from the heart.
Page 181 - Within the soul a faculty abides, That with interpositions, which would hide And darken, so can deal that they become Contingencies of pomp ; and serve to exalt Her native brightness.
Page 29 - tis a thing impossible to frame Conceptions equal to the soul's desires; And the most difficult of tasks to keep Heights which the soul is competent to gain.
Page 244 - But she has treasured, and she loves them all ; When in her way she meets them, they appear Peculiar people — death has made them dear. He...
Page 167 - A perfect Woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command ; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of an angel 13 light. XV.— I WANDERED LONELY. 1804. I WANDERED lonely as a cloud...
Page 100 - And what, for this frail world, were all That mortals do or suffer, Did no responsive harp, no pen, Memorial tribute offer ? Yea, what were mighty Nature's self?
Page 166 - If Thou be one whose heart the holy forms Of young imagination have kept pure, Stranger ! henceforth be warned ; and know that pride; Howe'er disguised in its own majesty, Is littleness; that he, who feels contempt For any living thing, hath faculties Which he has never used; that thought with him Is in its infancy.
Page 1 - Well, so I did ; but yet I did not think To show to all the world my pen and ink In such a mode ; I only thought to make I knew not what ; nor did I undertake Thereby to please my neighbour ; no, not I ; I did it mine own self to gratify.