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... Vale of years ; 15 Yet have I thought that we might also speak , And not presumptuously , I trust , of Age , As of a final Eminence , though bare In aspect and forbidding , yet a Point On which ' t is not impossible to sit In awful ...
... Vale of years ; 15 Yet have I thought that we might also speak , And not presumptuously , I trust , of Age , As of a final Eminence , though bare In aspect and forbidding , yet a Point On which ' t is not impossible to sit In awful ...
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... vale below , Ascending ! For on that superior height Who sits , is disencumbered from the press Of near obstructions , and is privileged To breathe in solitude above the host 35 Of ever - humming insects , ' mid thin air That suits not ...
... vale below , Ascending ! For on that superior height Who sits , is disencumbered from the press Of near obstructions , and is privileged To breathe in solitude above the host 35 Of ever - humming insects , ' mid thin air That suits not ...
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... vale , 50 In peals of thunder , and thick - vollied hail ; Prone rushing rains with torrents whelm'd the land , Our cot amidst a river seemed to stand ; Around its base , the foamy - crested streams 55 Flashed through the darkness to ...
... vale , 50 In peals of thunder , and thick - vollied hail ; Prone rushing rains with torrents whelm'd the land , Our cot amidst a river seemed to stand ; Around its base , the foamy - crested streams 55 Flashed through the darkness to ...
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... vale , The distant lake , fountains , and mighty trees , in many a lazy syllable , repeating Their old poetical legends to the wind . And this is the sweet spirit that doth fill The world ; and , in these wayward days of youth , My busy ...
... vale , The distant lake , fountains , and mighty trees , in many a lazy syllable , repeating Their old poetical legends to the wind . And this is the sweet spirit that doth fill The world ; and , in these wayward days of youth , My busy ...
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... vale ; The river's crystal , and the meadow's green - Grateful diversity ! — allure the eye 70 Abroad , to rove amid ten thousand charms . These scenes , where every Virtue , every Muse , Delighted range , serene the soul , and lift ...
... vale ; The river's crystal , and the meadow's green - Grateful diversity ! — allure the eye 70 Abroad , to rove amid ten thousand charms . These scenes , where every Virtue , every Muse , Delighted range , serene the soul , and lift ...
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Page 116 - And there was mounting in hot haste: the steed. The mustering squadron, and the clattering car. Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war...
Page 139 - Yet a few days and thee The all-beholding sun shall see no more In all his course; nor yet in the cold ground, Where thy pale form was laid, with many tears, Nor in the embrace of ocean, shall exist Thy image.
Page 139 - When thoughts Of the last bitter hour come like a blight Over thy spirit, and sad images Of the stern agony, and shroud, and pall, And breathless darkness, and the narrow house...
Page 47 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Page 46 - ... for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one: but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned.
Page 140 - Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound Save his own dashings — yet the dead are there ! And millions in those solitudes, since first The flight of years began, have laid them down In their last sleep — the dead reign there alone.
Page 117 - Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms - the day Battle's magnificently stern array...
Page 46 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Page 33 - The nation which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest.
Page 140 - Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with kings, The powerful of the earth — the wise, the good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre.