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Page 5
... less perfect by use or innate power , they momentarily pause here and there , and draw inspiration from some grand idea that juts out from the superficial area they traverse . Their power consists in analysis rather than in synthesis ...
... less perfect by use or innate power , they momentarily pause here and there , and draw inspiration from some grand idea that juts out from the superficial area they traverse . Their power consists in analysis rather than in synthesis ...
Page 14
... less energy , less durability , less intense and concentrated power , than in maturer life . In youth passion succeeds to passion , and one breaks upon the other like waves on a rock , till the heart frets itself to repose . Bulwer ...
... less energy , less durability , less intense and concentrated power , than in maturer life . In youth passion succeeds to passion , and one breaks upon the other like waves on a rock , till the heart frets itself to repose . Bulwer ...
Page 16
... lovely ! Hannah More . When I was young ! ah , woeful when ! Ah , for the change ' twixt now and then ! Coleridge . Youth might be wise . We suffer less from pains than pleasures . 2 * BEAUTY . B 17 BEAUTY . A THING. 16 YOUTH .
... lovely ! Hannah More . When I was young ! ah , woeful when ! Ah , for the change ' twixt now and then ! Coleridge . Youth might be wise . We suffer less from pains than pleasures . 2 * BEAUTY . B 17 BEAUTY . A THING. 16 YOUTH .
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... less difficult to know it has begun . A thousand heralds proclaim it to the listening air , a thousand mes- sengers betray it to the eye . Tone , act , attitude and look , the signals upon the countenance , the electric telegraph of ...
... less difficult to know it has begun . A thousand heralds proclaim it to the listening air , a thousand mes- sengers betray it to the eye . Tone , act , attitude and look , the signals upon the countenance , the electric telegraph of ...
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One only passion unrevealed , With maiden pride the maid concealed , Yet not less purely felt the flame ; Oh , need I tell that passion's name ? They sin who tell us love can die , With life all other passions fly- All others are but ...
One only passion unrevealed , With maiden pride the maid concealed , Yet not less purely felt the flame ; Oh , need I tell that passion's name ? They sin who tell us love can die , With life all other passions fly- All others are but ...
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Addison affection Bailey Bayard Taylor beauty blush breast breath bright Bulwer Burns Byron Campbell charms cheek Chesterfield Cicero Coleridge Colton Cowper dark death doth Dryden earth enemy eyes face fate faults fear feel Ferrold flower folly fool fortune friendship genius give glow Goethe Goldsmith grace Greville grief grow happiness hath Hazlitt heart heaven hope human husband Joanna Baillie Johnson kiss La Bruyère La Rochefoucauld Lavater life's light lips live Longfellow look love's lover Madame de Staël maiden man's marriage married Milton mind Miss Landon Moore Nature ne'er never o'er once Ovid pain passion pleasure Pope pride proud Proverb Rochefoucauld scorn Scott sense Shakspeare sighs sleep smile soft sorrow soul Spanish Proverb speak sweet Sydney Smith tears tender thee There's things thou hast thought tongue trust truth vice virtue warm wife wise woman women wooed words Wordsworth Young youth