Stanley: Or, The Recollections of a Man of the World, المجلد 2Lea & Blanchard, 1838 |
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الصفحة 15
... pleasure which we take in mere imagina- tions of its existence . In the visionary musings of the mind we of course consult only our own pleasure , and it is for that end only that we create before our eye the unreal scenes of dalliance ...
... pleasure which we take in mere imagina- tions of its existence . In the visionary musings of the mind we of course consult only our own pleasure , and it is for that end only that we create before our eye the unreal scenes of dalliance ...
الصفحة 16
... pleasure it produces - not for the benefits which the heart's assiduity may give to another but for the protection which its servitude may gain for itself I am far from holding the system of those who refer all the instincts of our ...
... pleasure it produces - not for the benefits which the heart's assiduity may give to another but for the protection which its servitude may gain for itself I am far from holding the system of those who refer all the instincts of our ...
الصفحة 27
... to the poets of a lighter cast - ministers of pleasure - is more futile than all . Little effect can they have upon our minds ; the joyousness of their joy has long been turned to sadness , and the wild laugh of gayety STANLEY . 27.
... to the poets of a lighter cast - ministers of pleasure - is more futile than all . Little effect can they have upon our minds ; the joyousness of their joy has long been turned to sadness , and the wild laugh of gayety STANLEY . 27.
الصفحة 40
... pleasure . And doubtless there is many a cloud overcasts the contentment of the scholar ; yet in all the chances of fortune and the changes of mood he still has ever near him the pearl of quiet - a treasure which Newton truly estimated ...
... pleasure . And doubtless there is many a cloud overcasts the contentment of the scholar ; yet in all the chances of fortune and the changes of mood he still has ever near him the pearl of quiet - a treasure which Newton truly estimated ...
الصفحة 65
... pleasure in doing me a kind- ness . I was at this time not far from his residence , and although it was so late that I almost despaired of finding him up , I hastened on in the hope that I might possibly gain admission in spite of the ...
... pleasure in doing me a kind- ness . I was at this time not far from his residence , and although it was so late that I almost despaired of finding him up , I hastened on in the hope that I might possibly gain admission in spite of the ...
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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...