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... eyes , and behold . Hewn out without hands , they rise ; All the crests of Abarim . Whence the Prophet look'd of old , Back - o'er misery manifold , Forward - o'er the Land unrolled Underneath his way - worn eyes . Quivering all in ...
... eyes , and behold . Hewn out without hands , they rise ; All the crests of Abarim . Whence the Prophet look'd of old , Back - o'er misery manifold , Forward - o'er the Land unrolled Underneath his way - worn eyes . Quivering all in ...
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... eyes rest upon her face with af fectionate examination . Molly felt herself colour all over with the consciousness of his regard . To do something to put an end to it , she looked up , and showed him her beau- tiful soft grey eyes ...
... eyes rest upon her face with af fectionate examination . Molly felt herself colour all over with the consciousness of his regard . To do something to put an end to it , she looked up , and showed him her beau- tiful soft grey eyes ...
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... eyes , at any rate , in this first inter- view , and in her heart of hearts she thought him rather commonplace . But of course she said nothing of this to Cynthia , who was evidently as happy as she could be . Mrs. Gibson , too , was in ...
... eyes , at any rate , in this first inter- view , and in her heart of hearts she thought him rather commonplace . But of course she said nothing of this to Cynthia , who was evidently as happy as she could be . Mrs. Gibson , too , was in ...
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... eyes upon the world , before , on a cold foggy winter's night , we had to take her up and carry her away , we hardly knew whither - for still the clouds hung over us , and if all around us was dark , all before us was darker still . But ...
... eyes upon the world , before , on a cold foggy winter's night , we had to take her up and carry her away , we hardly knew whither - for still the clouds hung over us , and if all around us was dark , all before us was darker still . But ...
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... eyes . The tiny boots which she had worn for the first time , and which she showed us THIRD SERIES . LIVING AGE . VOL . XXXII . with so much pride the very day before her death . The drinking cup from which alone she would allow her ...
... eyes . The tiny boots which she had worn for the first time , and which she showed us THIRD SERIES . LIVING AGE . VOL . XXXII . with so much pride the very day before her death . The drinking cup from which alone she would allow her ...
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Page 248 - When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die: ; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owlet to hoot o'er the dead man's grave, Then go — but go alone the while — Then view St. David's ruin'd pile ; And, home returning, soothly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair ! II.
Page 247 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Page 248 - When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seem framed of ebon and ivory ; When silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee to live and die...
Page 408 - For honour travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast. Keep then the path ; For emulation hath a thousand sons, That one by one pursue ; if you give way, Or hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an entered tide, they all rush by, And leave you hindmost.
Page 169 - For the writings of these Mystics acted in no slight degree to prevent my mind from being imprisoned within the outline of any single dogmatic system. They contributed to keep alive the heart in the head; gave me an indistinct, yet stirring and working presentiment, that all the products of the mere reflective faculty partook of death...
Page 242 - Their number last he sums. And now his heart Distends with pride, and hardening in his strength...
Page 164 - Or throne of corses which his sword hath slain ? Greatness and goodness are not means but ends ! Hath he not always treasures, always friends, The good great man ? Three treasures,- love and light, And calm thoughts regular as infant's breath : And three firm friends, more sure than day and night, Himself, his Maker, and the angel Death.
Page 89 - The preacher then launched into his subject, like an eagle dallying with the wind. The sermon was upon peace and war; upon church and state — not their alliance but their separation — on the spirit of the world and the spirit of Christianity, not as the same, but as opposed to one another. He talked of those who had 'inscribed the cross of Christ on banners dripping with human gore.
Page 79 - Listen to the wond'rous story, Which they chant in hymns of joy ; " Glory in the highest, glory ! Glory be to God most high...
Page 167 - Our observation employed either about external sensible objects, or about the internal operations of our minds, perceived and reflected on by ourselves, is that which supplies our understandings with all the materials of thinking. These two are the fountains of knowledge from whence all the ideas we have or can naturally have do spring.