Stanley: Or, The Recollections of a Man of the World, المجلد 2Lea & Blanchard, 1838 |
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... direction which mind and mental culture are taking in our days ? " " The modern system of things , ” he replied , " neither commands my respect nor wins my sympathy . This insane craving after knowledge , ' this diseased exag- geration ...
... direction which mind and mental culture are taking in our days ? " " The modern system of things , ” he replied , " neither commands my respect nor wins my sympathy . This insane craving after knowledge , ' this diseased exag- geration ...
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... direction of Tyler . To cross his legs , to fold his hands deliberately in his bosom , and to settle himself in his chair in a posture of greater ease than before , while an expression of calm contempt slightly curled his lip , was the ...
... direction of Tyler . To cross his legs , to fold his hands deliberately in his bosom , and to settle himself in his chair in a posture of greater ease than before , while an expression of calm contempt slightly curled his lip , was the ...
الصفحة 53
... direction to that in which I was standing . Neither of the indivi- duals resembled in dress the person whom I expected ; but a single remark addressed to his companion by one of the men , who was habited in a great 5 * STANLEY . 53 ...
... direction to that in which I was standing . Neither of the indivi- duals resembled in dress the person whom I expected ; but a single remark addressed to his companion by one of the men , who was habited in a great 5 * STANLEY . 53 ...
الصفحة 60
... direction to his present residence , as would enable him to send to him or to visit him . I replied very frankly that I knew where my brother was living , and could readily find the house , but that I could not give to another such a ...
... direction to his present residence , as would enable him to send to him or to visit him . I replied very frankly that I knew where my brother was living , and could readily find the house , but that I could not give to another such a ...
الصفحة 61
... directions to deliver it as soon as I pleased , and to enable the person to whom it was addressed , to find the object of his in- terest either by my going with him , or by giving satis- factory descriptions . He also handed me a sum of ...
... directions to deliver it as soon as I pleased , and to enable the person to whom it was addressed , to find the object of his in- terest either by my going with him , or by giving satis- factory descriptions . He also handed me a sum of ...
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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...