My Old Portfolio; Or, Tales and SketchesSmith, Elder, and Company, 1832 - 310 oldal |
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17. oldal
... less than blasphemy when uttered in the visible pre- sence of the sublimities of nature . A solitude , wild and glorious like this , is the audience - cham- ber of Omnipotence , shall the creature man dare to enter it irreverently ? If ...
... less than blasphemy when uttered in the visible pre- sence of the sublimities of nature . A solitude , wild and glorious like this , is the audience - cham- ber of Omnipotence , shall the creature man dare to enter it irreverently ? If ...
22. oldal
... less an object of detestation to your children ; will de- tach you for a time from the muddy river of ordi- nary existence ; and , in one of your brightest moods , may enable you to give birth to some such lucubration as that which you ...
... less an object of detestation to your children ; will de- tach you for a time from the muddy river of ordi- nary existence ; and , in one of your brightest moods , may enable you to give birth to some such lucubration as that which you ...
33. oldal
... less won- derful , notwithstanding his apparent intimacy , he remained nearly as much a stranger to its inmates as ever . His name , they had ascertained , was Burleigh Frederick Burleigh , that he was probably upwards of eight and ...
... less won- derful , notwithstanding his apparent intimacy , he remained nearly as much a stranger to its inmates as ever . His name , they had ascertained , was Burleigh Frederick Burleigh , that he was probably upwards of eight and ...
36. oldal
... less wor- thy than I know you are , I should not pity , I should She stopped confused , a deep blush spread over her face , she burst into tears , and would have sunk to the ground had not her lover caught her in his arms . " Think of ...
... less wor- thy than I know you are , I should not pity , I should She stopped confused , a deep blush spread over her face , she burst into tears , and would have sunk to the ground had not her lover caught her in his arms . " Think of ...
70. oldal
... less an- cient , and a bullet instead of a javelin may have gone through his heart , but he had the same appetites , passions , propensities , and the same connections with life . Drawing from the same originals , how can the artist ...
... less an- cient , and a bullet instead of a javelin may have gone through his heart , but he had the same appetites , passions , propensities , and the same connections with life . Drawing from the same originals , how can the artist ...
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My Old Portfolio: Or, Tales and Sketches: by Henry Glassford Bell Henry Bell Nincs elérhető előnézet - 2017 |
My Old Portfolio: Or, Tales and Sketches: by Henry Glassford Bell Henry Bell Nincs elérhető előnézet - 2017 |
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155. oldal - Some say that gleams of a remoter world Visit the soul in sleep, — that death is slumber, And that its shapes the busy thoughts outnumber Of those who wake and live. — I look on high; Has some unknown omnipotence unfurled The veil of life and death? or do I lie In dream, and does the mightier world of sleep Spread far around and inaccessibly Its circles?
201. oldal - And standest undecayed within our presence, Thou wilt hear nothing till the Judgment morning, When the great trump shall thrill thee with its warning.
137. oldal - The many men, so beautiful! And they all dead did lie: And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on; and so did I.
5. oldal - Tasting of Flora and the country green, Dance, and Provencal song, and sunburnt mirth! O for a beaker full of the warm south, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, With beaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth ; That I might drink, and leave the world unseen, And with thee fade away into the forest dim.
87. oldal - Turningvort was a man of speculative as well as practical science, and there was a favourite discovery which he had long been endeavouring to make, and in accomplishing which he imagined he had at last succeeded that very morning. Like all other manufacturers of terrestrial legs, he had ever found the chief difficulty in his progress towards perfection to consist in its being...
122. oldal - Fitzclarence."— Julia's cheeks grew first as white as her brow, and then as red as her lips. As soon as breakfast was over, she retired to her own apartment, whither we must, for once, take the liberty of following her. She sat herself down before her mirror, and deliberately took from her hair a very tasteful little knot of fictitious flowers, which she had fastened in it when she rose. One naturally expected that she was about to replace this ornament with something more splendid — a few jewels,...
91. oldal - I may walk. Don't stand gaping there, but come out and relieve me, or I shall be out of sight, and you will not be able to overtake me." The mechanician grew very pale ; he was evidently not prepared for this new difficulty. He lost not a moment, however, in following the merchant to do what he could towards extricating him from so awkward a predicament. The merchant, or rather the merchant's leg, was walking very quick, and Turningvort, being an elderly man, found it no easy matter to make up to...