Stanley: Or, The Recollections of a Man of the World, المجلد 2Lea & Blanchard, 1838 |
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... closed eyes , over a volume of the Greek Anthology . He received me with polished cour- tesy , for he belonged to a family of honourable rank , and had in former years , mingled a good deal in so- ciety , and I began the conversation ...
... closed eyes , over a volume of the Greek Anthology . He received me with polished cour- tesy , for he belonged to a family of honourable rank , and had in former years , mingled a good deal in so- ciety , and I began the conversation ...
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... closed , and sat down before it to amuse the time by watching the passengers in the street below . Gradually the shades of evening fell upon the view , and I was no longer able to distinguish ob- jects . I waited without moving from my ...
... closed , and sat down before it to amuse the time by watching the passengers in the street below . Gradually the shades of evening fell upon the view , and I was no longer able to distinguish ob- jects . I waited without moving from my ...
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... closed the door behind him . I suspected at once that it was the same individual whom I had seen on the night before , entering the secret chamber in the wall of the entry of the club - house . Without raising his counte- nance from the ...
... closed the door behind him . I suspected at once that it was the same individual whom I had seen on the night before , entering the secret chamber in the wall of the entry of the club - house . Without raising his counte- nance from the ...
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... closed the door behind him , their coun- tenances exhibited a mingled expression of fear and regret . It was plain that the strength of that party's confidence was gone , and the central power of their support had departed . I had been ...
... closed the door behind him , their coun- tenances exhibited a mingled expression of fear and regret . It was plain that the strength of that party's confidence was gone , and the central power of their support had departed . I had been ...
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... closed shutters , I presently saw him issue from the door , and cross over the street and enter the opposite house . I withdrew the bolts that closed my apartment , as hastily as the necessity of profound silence would admit , and ...
... closed shutters , I presently saw him issue from the door , and cross over the street and enter the opposite house . I withdrew the bolts that closed my apartment , as hastily as the necessity of profound silence would admit , and ...
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الصفحة 224 - Nor less I deem that there are Powers Which of themselves our minds impress; That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness.
الصفحة 94 - My dear dear Friend ; and in thy voice I catch The language of my former heart, and read My former pleasures in the shooting lights Of thy wild eyes.
الصفحة 27 - ... of the sun made them more admire him than its supernatural station did the children of Israel; the ordinary effects of nature wrought more admiration in them than in the other all his miracles. Surely the heathens knew better how to join and read these mystical letters than we Christians, who cast a more careless eye on these common hieroglyphics, and disdain to suck divinity from the flowers of nature.
الصفحة 92 - Verse, a breeze mid blossoms straying, Where Hope clung feeding, like a bee — Both were mine ! Life went a-maying With Nature, Hope, and Poesy, When I was young ! When I was young ? — Ah, woful When ! Ah ! for the change 'twixt Now and Then...
الصفحة 93 - That time is past, And all its aching joys are now no more, And all its dizzy raptures. Not for this Faint I, nor mourn nor murmur; other gifts Have followed; for such loss, I would believe, Abundant recompense.
الصفحة 93 - What then I was. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion : the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye.
الصفحة 95 - Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind; In the primal sympathy Which having been must ever be ; In the soothing thoughts that spring Out of human suffering; In the faith that looks through death, In years that bring the philosophic mind.
الصفحة 95 - What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now for ever taken from my sight...
الصفحة 41 - ... civem totius mundi quasi unius urbis agnoverit, in hac ille magnificentia rerum atque in hoc conspectu et cognitione naturae, dii...