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... beautiful in their way ; but their beauty is precisely of that kind which a youth can hardly appreciate , which he will seldom spontaneously admire , and which unquestionably he should never be taught to imitate . The truth is , that he ...
... beautiful in their way ; but their beauty is precisely of that kind which a youth can hardly appreciate , which he will seldom spontaneously admire , and which unquestionably he should never be taught to imitate . The truth is , that he ...
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... BEAUTIFUL to find it . It is the ancient feeling of the human heart— that know- ledge is better than riches ; and it is deeply and sacredly true . To mark the course of human passions as they have flowed on in the ages that are past ...
... BEAUTIFUL to find it . It is the ancient feeling of the human heart— that know- ledge is better than riches ; and it is deeply and sacredly true . To mark the course of human passions as they have flowed on in the ages that are past ...
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... beautiful , and that not so ? Was he not a peasant by birth , and by fortune little better ; and was it not thought much , even in the height of his reputa- tion , that Southampton * allowed him equal patronage with the zanies ...
... beautiful , and that not so ? Was he not a peasant by birth , and by fortune little better ; and was it not thought much , even in the height of his reputa- tion , that Southampton * allowed him equal patronage with the zanies ...
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... beautiful in the world of sense ; all that is imaginable in the world of intellect . I gathered around me all that could delight my heart ; my desires were the limit of my pleasures . No , never have the most voluptuous known such ...
... beautiful in the world of sense ; all that is imaginable in the world of intellect . I gathered around me all that could delight my heart ; my desires were the limit of my pleasures . No , never have the most voluptuous known such ...
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... beautiful of Nature's deep mysteries . I know nothing so wonderful as the shooting of a crystal . God has hidden its principle as yet from the inquisitive eye of the philoso- pher , and we must be content to gaze on its exquisite beauty ...
... beautiful of Nature's deep mysteries . I know nothing so wonderful as the shooting of a crystal . God has hidden its principle as yet from the inquisitive eye of the philoso- pher , and we must be content to gaze on its exquisite beauty ...
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Page 287 - Will I upon thy party wear this rose: And here I prophesy, — This brawl to-day, Grown to this faction, in the Temple garden, Shall send, between the red rose and the white, A thousand souls to death and deadly night.
Page 28 - Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they? Think not of them, thou hast thy music too, While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day, And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue; Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn Among the river sallows, borne aloft Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies; And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn; Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft The redbreast whistles from a garden-croft, And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.
Page 28 - Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store? Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find Thee sitting careless on a granary floor, Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind...
Page 20 - 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 12 - In me. thou see'st the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west ; Which by and by black night doth take away, Death's second self, that seals up all in rest. In me thou see'st the glowing of such fire That on the ashes of his youth doth lie, As the death-bed whereon it must expire, Consumed with that which it was nourish'd by.
Page 59 - The latest Gospel in this world is, Know thy work and do it. ' Know thyself:' long enough has that poor ' self of thine tormented thee ; thou wilt never get to ' know' it, I believe ! Think it not thy business, this of knowing thyself; thou art an unknowable individual : know what thou canst work at; and work at it, like a Hercules!
Page 28 - To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel; to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease ; For Summer has o'erbrimm'd their clammy cells.
Page 2 - Leave to enjoy myself. That place, that does Contain my books, the best companions, is To me a glorious court, where hourly I Converse with the old sages and philosophers ; And sometimes for variety I confer With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels ; Calling their victories, if unjustly got, Unto a strict account ; and in my fancy, Deface their ill-placed statues.
Page 3 - Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old : My never-failing friends are they, With whom I converse day by day. With them I take delight in weal And seek relief in woe ; And while I understand and feel How much to them I owe, My cheeks have often been bedew'd With tears of thoughtful gratitude.
Page 12 - That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. In me thou see'st the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west; Which by and by black night doth take away, Death's second self, that seals up all in rest.