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... philosophy of life and action 55-8 . Its relation to the Christian dogma 100 105 • 59. Close of his life . 60-2 . The Jesuit Scarpa's account of his death 109 · 109 PAGE 71-3 . His classicism 63 , 64. The confutation iv CONTENTS .
... philosophy of life and action 55-8 . Its relation to the Christian dogma 100 105 • 59. Close of his life . 60-2 . The Jesuit Scarpa's account of his death 109 · 109 PAGE 71-3 . His classicism 63 , 64. The confutation iv CONTENTS .
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... death , in May 1841. Here we bring this general outline to a close ; proposing to take more particular notice of some of the passages of his chequered and disastrous career . 9. We may regard Mr. Blanco White in several charac- ters ...
... death , in May 1841. Here we bring this general outline to a close ; proposing to take more particular notice of some of the passages of his chequered and disastrous career . 9. We may regard Mr. Blanco White in several charac- ters ...
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... death ; and death with him had a terrible meaning . Latterly his greatest comfort appears to have been found in litera- ture ; " My only enjoyment of life arises from my books . " In the year 1838 his complainings become almost ...
... death ; and death with him had a terrible meaning . Latterly his greatest comfort appears to have been found in litera- ture ; " My only enjoyment of life arises from my books . " In the year 1838 his complainings become almost ...
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... death he used these admirable and touching words , which however are much above the ordinary tone of his later life : - " I am going , my dear friend : I am leaving you very fast . I have not formed such definite views of the nature of ...
... death he used these admirable and touching words , which however are much above the ordinary tone of his later life : - " I am going , my dear friend : I am leaving you very fast . I have not formed such definite views of the nature of ...
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... death had not yet been decomposed . In that case , the warning which he has left behind him , written by the dispensation of Providence for our learning , would have been even more forcible , but the picture itself would have been in ...
... death had not yet been decomposed . In that case , the warning which he has left behind him , written by the dispensation of Providence for our learning , would have been even more forcible , but the picture itself would have been in ...
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Page 167 - Traitors — and strike him dead, and meet myself Death, or I know not what mysterious doom. And thou remaining here wilt learn the event; But hither shall I never come again, Never lie by thy side; see thee no more — Farewell!
Page 178 - Titanic forces taking birth In divers seasons, divers climes; For we are Ancients of the earth, And in the morning of the times.
Page 53 - Full fathom five thy father lies, Of his bones are coral made : Those are pearls that were his eyes, Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea change, Into something rich and strange.
Page 141 - Ah ! when shall all men's good Be each man's rule, and universal Peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land, And like a lane of beams athwart the sea, Thro' all the circle of the golden year?
Page 210 - His best companions, innocence and health; And his best riches, ignorance of wealth. But times are alter'd; trade's unfeeling train Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain...
Page 210 - If to the city sped, what waits him there? To see profusion that he must not share ; To see ten thousand baneful arts combined To pamper luxury and thin mankind ; To see those joys the sons of Pleasure know Extorted from his fellow-creature's woe.
Page 139 - I seem in star and flower To feel thee some diffusive power, I do not therefore love thee less: My love involves the love before; My love is vaster passion now; Tho' mix'd with God and Nature thou, I seem to love thee more and more.
Page 307 - Of good and evil much they argued then, Of happiness and final misery, Passion and apathy, and glory and shame...
Page 141 - For the peace, that I deem'd no peace, is over and done, And now by the side of the Black and the Baltic deep, And deathful-grinning mouths of the fortress, flames The blood-red blossom of war with a heart of fire.
Page 142 - When a Mammonite mother kills her babe for a burial fee, And Timour-Mammon grins on a pile of children's bones, Is it peace or war ? better, war! loud war by land and by sea, War with a thousand battles, and shaking a hundred thrones.