Dreams and Reveries of a Quiet Man: Consisting of the Little Genius, and Other Essays, المجلد 2J. & J. Harper, 1832 |
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... imagination , a glorious prize , to reach which , no exer- tion would be too great - I walked to my little room , where a remnant of my family's possessions enabled me to keep my chin above the ocean of life . In the solitary silence of ...
... imagination , a glorious prize , to reach which , no exer- tion would be too great - I walked to my little room , where a remnant of my family's possessions enabled me to keep my chin above the ocean of life . In the solitary silence of ...
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... imagination , and heaved and changed in the dim and dreary distance like a magnificent vision of enchantment , which only want- ed the breath of my genius to fan it into shape and exquisite beauty . 6 " At it I went , tooth and nail ...
... imagination , and heaved and changed in the dim and dreary distance like a magnificent vision of enchantment , which only want- ed the breath of my genius to fan it into shape and exquisite beauty . 6 " At it I went , tooth and nail ...
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... imagination , and gave promise of some- thing more exquisite still . Novel writing was out of the question . I had manufactured one , and if the public did not like it , they might let it alone ; and so they did -the more shame for them ...
... imagination , and gave promise of some- thing more exquisite still . Novel writing was out of the question . I had manufactured one , and if the public did not like it , they might let it alone ; and so they did -the more shame for them ...
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... imagination was elevated and inspired , and a thrilling sense of compassion was spreading itself through my veins , it assured me that a capital shaving soap might be obtained within a few doors of its office : Beside the elegance of ...
... imagination was elevated and inspired , and a thrilling sense of compassion was spreading itself through my veins , it assured me that a capital shaving soap might be obtained within a few doors of its office : Beside the elegance of ...
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... imagination . Sleep itself affords me no cessation , for they pass all with exagge- rated importance into my dreams , and so haunt me . Wonderful images of the outward world , that world which I am never to see again . Never - never ...
... imagination . Sleep itself affords me no cessation , for they pass all with exagge- rated importance into my dreams , and so haunt me . Wonderful images of the outward world , that world which I am never to see again . Never - never ...
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الصفحة 70 - I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul; freeze thy young blood ; Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres; Thy knotted and combined locks to part, And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine : But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood : — List, list, O list!
الصفحة 195 - But rise; let us no more contend, nor blame Each other, blamed enough elsewhere; but strive, In offices of love, how we may lighten Each other's burden, in our share of woe...
الصفحة 7 - Who hung with woods yon mountain's sultry brow ? From the dry rock who bade the waters flow ? Not to the skies in useless columns tost...
الصفحة 98 - Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high Of Providence, Foreknowledge, Will, and Fate — Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute — And found no end, in wandering mazes lost.
الصفحة 192 - Cowards die many times before their deaths ; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear ; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come, when it will come.
الصفحة 158 - My only strength and stay. Forlorn of thee, Whither shall I betake me, where subsist? While yet we live, scarce one short hour perhaps, Between us two let there be peace; both joining, As join'd in injuries, one enmity Against a foe by doom express assign'd us, That cruel serpent.
الصفحة 188 - That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge In the Arctic sky, and from his horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war.
الصفحة 89 - It must not be; there is no power in Venice Can alter a decree established: 'Twill be recorded for a precedent; And many an error, by the same example, Will rush into the state: it cannot be.
الصفحة 153 - And understood not that a grateful mind By owing owes not, but still pays, at once Indebted and discharged...
الصفحة 3 - The young who labour, and the old who rest. Is any sick ? the Man of Ross relieves, Prescribes, attends, the medicine makes and gives.