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... moral , too , your line may point ; When tangl'd is the hair , Let patience with her oil anoint , " Twill save you from despair . ' The same in life when ills assail , Perplex'd with mischiefs rank , Patience and skill will seldom fail ...
... moral , too , your line may point ; When tangl'd is the hair , Let patience with her oil anoint , " Twill save you from despair . ' The same in life when ills assail , Perplex'd with mischiefs rank , Patience and skill will seldom fail ...
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... moral sentiments . These give him a keener relish for the sublimities and beauties of nature . The following stanzas exhibit a pretty correct notion of the manner in which he treats his subject : - When fair Aurora , rising early ...
... moral sentiments . These give him a keener relish for the sublimities and beauties of nature . The following stanzas exhibit a pretty correct notion of the manner in which he treats his subject : - When fair Aurora , rising early ...
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... moral tyranny over the minds of the Welsh people , inciting them to expect a second Cadwaladr , as the promised Arthur redivivus . We would gladly draw attention , if it were necessary , to the brilliant period of Welsh history , when ...
... moral tyranny over the minds of the Welsh people , inciting them to expect a second Cadwaladr , as the promised Arthur redivivus . We would gladly draw attention , if it were necessary , to the brilliant period of Welsh history , when ...
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... morals and in literature . Some breathe the spirit of the New Testament in an eminent degree , and others would do no ... moral condition of an ancient and worthy race . ART . V. - Report from the Select Committee on the Law of Mortmain ...
... morals and in literature . Some breathe the spirit of the New Testament in an eminent degree , and others would do no ... moral condition of an ancient and worthy race . ART . V. - Report from the Select Committee on the Law of Mortmain ...
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... moral judgment would condemn it ; and we think the writer must have felt that the sense of duty ascribed to the heroine is morbid . We are not apprehensive of any harm from the tale itself , but we seriously protest against so depicting ...
... moral judgment would condemn it ; and we think the writer must have felt that the sense of duty ascribed to the heroine is morbid . We are not apprehensive of any harm from the tale itself , but we seriously protest against so depicting ...
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Page 294 - But we loved with a love that was more than love, I and my Annabel Lee — With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven Coveted her and me.
Page 293 - And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming, . And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor: And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted — nevermore...
Page 293 - But the Raven, sitting lonely on the placid bust, spoke only That one word, as if his soul in that one word he did outpour. Nothing farther then he uttered, not a feather then he fluttered; Till I scarcely more than muttered, "Other friends have flown before; On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before.
Page 294 - It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of Annabel Lee ; And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me. I was a child and she was a child, In this kingdom by the sea...
Page 289 - Then think I of deep shadows on the grass, Of meadows where in sun the cattle graze, Where, as the breezes pass, The gleaming rushes lean a thousand ways, Of leaves that slumber in a cloudy mass, Or whiten in the wind, of waters blue That from the distance sparkle through Some woodland gap, and of a sky above, Where one white cloud like a stray lamb doth move.
Page 299 - But now his nose is thin, And it rests upon his chin Like a staff, And a crook is in his back, And a melancholy crack In his laugh.
Page 473 - And well may they fall back, for beyond those troops of ordered arches there rises a vision out of the earth, and all the great square seems to have opened from it in a kind of awe...
Page 289 - DANDELION DEAR common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold, First pledge of blithesome May...
Page 294 - Past (Dim gulf!) my spirit hovering lies Mute, motionless, aghast! For, alas! alas! with me The light of Life is o'er! "No more — no more — no more...
Page 478 - The second reason is, that imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know of life. It is the sign of life in a mortal body, that is to say, of a state of progress and change. Nothing that lives is, or can be, rigidly perfect ; part of it is decaying, part nascent. The foxglove blossom, — a third part bud, a third part past, a third part in full bloom, — is a type of the life of this world.