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... existence of a country gentleman ; and how , after having buried his old mother , married his daughters , and seen himself a grandfather at the age of forty - three , he was cut off rather suddenly on his fifty- third birthday , in the ...
... existence of a country gentleman ; and how , after having buried his old mother , married his daughters , and seen himself a grandfather at the age of forty - three , he was cut off rather suddenly on his fifty- third birthday , in the ...
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... existence , cruel out of mere malevolence of nature . Death , too , had become to him a kind of actual being or fury , morally un- amiable , and deserving of reproach , — " that churl , Death . " If we turn to the plays of Shakespeare ...
... existence , cruel out of mere malevolence of nature . Death , too , had become to him a kind of actual being or fury , morally un- amiable , and deserving of reproach , — " that churl , Death . " If we turn to the plays of Shakespeare ...
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... existence ? It fared better with me fifty years ago in my own dear Germany . I could soon come to an end with all that then existed ; it could not long awe me , or occupy my attention . I soon left behind me German literature , and the ...
... existence ? It fared better with me fifty years ago in my own dear Germany . I could soon come to an end with all that then existed ; it could not long awe me , or occupy my attention . I soon left behind me German literature , and the ...
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... existence had illustrated the early part of the seventeenth century in England ; and necessarily denoted , at the same time , a very different cast of mind and temper . Accordingly , such descriptions as we have of Goethe from those who ...
... existence had illustrated the early part of the seventeenth century in England ; and necessarily denoted , at the same time , a very different cast of mind and temper . Accordingly , such descriptions as we have of Goethe from those who ...
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... existence of my soul is proved from my idea of activity . If I work on in- cessantly till my death , nature is bound to give me another form of existence when the present one can no longer sustain my spirit . " - Ibid . vol . ii . pp ...
... existence of my soul is proved from my idea of activity . If I work on in- cessantly till my death , nature is bound to give me another form of existence when the present one can no longer sustain my spirit . " - Ibid . vol . ii . pp ...
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Page 395 - The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul...
Page 123 - He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide...
Page 44 - Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed ; his other parts besides, Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood...
Page 419 - Many a night from yonder ivied casement, ere I went to rest, Did I look on great Orion sloping slowly to the West. Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising thro' the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid.
Page 440 - And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept : and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son...
Page 450 - In secret, riding through the air she comes, Lured with the smell of infant blood, to dance With Lapland witches, while the labouring moon Eclipses at their charms.
Page 441 - ... boy, That he shouts with his sister at play ! O well for the sailor lad, That he sings in his boat on the bay ! And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill ; But O for the touch of a...
Page 366 - Then up I rose, And dragged to earth, both branch and bough with crash And merciless ravage, and the shady nook Of hazels, and the green and mossy bower, Deformed and sullied, patiently gave up Their quiet being...