Guesses at TruthMacmillan, 1867 - Всего страниц: 576 |
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... soul's dark cottage , battered and decayed , Lets in new lights through chinks that time has made , may be , perhaps is , no less true in fact , than pretty in fancy . Spirits may acquire new modes of communication on 8 GUESSES AT TRUTH .
... soul's dark cottage , battered and decayed , Lets in new lights through chinks that time has made , may be , perhaps is , no less true in fact , than pretty in fancy . Spirits may acquire new modes of communication on 8 GUESSES AT TRUTH .
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Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare. fancy . Spirits may acquire new modes of communication on losing their mouths and ears , just as a bird gets its feathers on bursting from the shell . Our own experience furnishes a similar ...
Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare. fancy . Spirits may acquire new modes of communication on losing their mouths and ears , just as a bird gets its feathers on bursting from the shell . Our own experience furnishes a similar ...
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... fancy ” . . . and from that stronghold what shall drive it ? ' Twas a night clear and cloudless , and the sight , Swifter than heaven - commissioned cherubim , Soaring above the moon , glancing beyond The stars , was lost in heaven's ...
... fancy ” . . . and from that stronghold what shall drive it ? ' Twas a night clear and cloudless , and the sight , Swifter than heaven - commissioned cherubim , Soaring above the moon , glancing beyond The stars , was lost in heaven's ...
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... fancy . For consult the acutest poets and speakers ; and they will confess that their quickest and most admired conceptions were such as darted into their minds like sud- den flashes of lightning , they knew not how nor whence ; and not ...
... fancy . For consult the acutest poets and speakers ; and they will confess that their quickest and most admired conceptions were such as darted into their minds like sud- den flashes of lightning , they knew not how nor whence ; and not ...
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... fancy - work of Nature's idlesse ; There threatening rocks , and rending ancient firs , The sovereins of the wood , yet overwhelmed , And dasht to the earth with hooting violence . Many actions , like the Rhone , have two sources 18 ...
... fancy - work of Nature's idlesse ; There threatening rocks , and rending ancient firs , The sovereins of the wood , yet overwhelmed , And dasht to the earth with hooting violence . Many actions , like the Rhone , have two sources 18 ...
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Стр. 251 - From man or angel the great Architect Did wisely to conceal, and not divulge His secrets to be scanned by them who ought Rather admire ; or if they list to try Conjecture, he his fabric of the heavens Hath left to their disputes, perhaps to move His laughter at their quaint opinions wide Hereafter, when they come to mode!
Стр. 348 - For whilst, to the shame of slow-endeavouring art, Thy easy numbers flow, and that each heart Hath, from the leaves of thy unvalued book, Those Delphic lines with deep impression took ; Then thou, our fancy of itself bereaving, Dost make us marble, with too much conceiving ; And, so sepulchred, in such pomp dost lie, That kings, for such a tomb, would wish to die.
Стр. 235 - Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves is as true of personal habits as of money.
Стр. 86 - WE, greatly commending, and graciously accepting of, their Desires for the Furtherance of so noble a Work, which may, by the Providence of Almighty God, hereafter tend to the Glory of his Divine Majesty, in propagating of Christian Religion to such People, as yet live in Darkness and miserable Ignorance of the true Knowledge and Worship of God...
Стр. 211 - Nature, was a most gentle expresser of it : his mind and hand went together ; and what he thought, he uttered with that easiness, that we have scarce received from him a blot in his papers.
Стр. 372 - ... even that of the loftiest and seemingly that of the wildest odes, had a logic of its own, as severe as that of science, and more difficult, because more subtle, more complex, and dependent on more, and more fugitive, causes. In the truly great poets, he would say, there is a reason assignable not only for every word, but for the position of every word...
Стр. 23 - It destroys likewise magnanimity, and the raising of human nature : for take an example of a dog, and mark what a generosity and courage he will put on, when he finds himself maintained by a man ; who to him is instead of a God, or melior natura...
Стр. 484 - Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night: and should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?
Стр. 41 - Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost.
Стр. 368 - ... forbidding ways Of custom, law, and statute, took at once The attraction of a country in romance...