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... calm of night , was prolonged 35 from desert to desert , and died away among the solitary forests . The grandeur , the astonishing sublimity of this scene , human language is inadequate to exqress ; nor can the most delightful nights in ...
... calm of night , was prolonged 35 from desert to desert , and died away among the solitary forests . The grandeur , the astonishing sublimity of this scene , human language is inadequate to exqress ; nor can the most delightful nights in ...
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... calm their beating hearts , to cool their 20 fevered blood , to lead them gently back to the fountains that " go softly . " He bade them repose their throbbing brows upon the lap of Nature . He quietly advocated the peace of rural ...
... calm their beating hearts , to cool their 20 fevered blood , to lead them gently back to the fountains that " go softly . " He bade them repose their throbbing brows upon the lap of Nature . He quietly advocated the peace of rural ...
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... calm voice from the mountains , none could listen without advantage . What though its tones were sometimes monotonous , they were hopeful and serene . To listen exclusively , might indeed prove wearisome ; · but in some placid moments ...
... calm voice from the mountains , none could listen without advantage . What though its tones were sometimes monotonous , they were hopeful and serene . To listen exclusively , might indeed prove wearisome ; · but in some placid moments ...
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... Calm admiration , though universal and enduring , would have been insipid . He wanted to electrify , to overwhelm . 30 He lived for effect . The world was his theatre ; and he cared little what part he played , if he might walk the sole ...
... Calm admiration , though universal and enduring , would have been insipid . He wanted to electrify , to overwhelm . 30 He lived for effect . The world was his theatre ; and he cared little what part he played , if he might walk the sole ...
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... The spirit may burn with a brighter power ; But dearer the calm and quiet day , When the heaven - sick soul is stealing away . 40 45 EXERCISE IV . From " The Discourse of the Wanderer 38 POETICAL SELECTIONS . To the Ursa Major.
... The spirit may burn with a brighter power ; But dearer the calm and quiet day , When the heaven - sick soul is stealing away . 40 45 EXERCISE IV . From " The Discourse of the Wanderer 38 POETICAL SELECTIONS . To the Ursa Major.
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Page 92 - Cameron's gathering" rose! The war-note of Lochiel, which Albyn's hills Have heard, and heard, too, have her Saxon foes: — How in the noon of night that pibroch thrills, Savage and shrill! But with the breath which fills Their mountain-pipe, so fill the mountaineers With the fierce native daring which instils The stirring memory of a thousand years, And Evan's, Donald's fame rings in each clansman's ears!
Page 22 - Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them: for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them and above them, won by observation.
Page 92 - 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 91 - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street; On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet.— But hark!
Page 115 - 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 91 - Within a windowed niche of that high hall Sate Brunswick's fated chieftain; he did hear That sound the first amidst the festival, And caught its tone with Death's prophetic ear. And when they smiled because he deemed it near, His heart more truly knew that peal too well Which stretched his father on a bloody bier, And roused the vengeance blood alone could quell: He rushed into the field, and, foremost fighting, fell.
Page 115 - 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 22 - ... 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 116 - 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 48 - The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made: Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new.