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... fearful touches which he delights to borrow from the world of spirits . In the vivid description of natural scenery our author is wholly without a rival , unless Sir Walter Scott will dispute the pre - eminence with him ; and , even ...
... fearful touches which he delights to borrow from the world of spirits . In the vivid description of natural scenery our author is wholly without a rival , unless Sir Walter Scott will dispute the pre - eminence with him ; and , even ...
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... fearful Elspeth - in the vengeful wife of M'Gregor - are traits of wild and irregular greatness , fragments of might and grandeur , which show how noble and sacred a thing the heart of man is , in spite of its strangest debasements and ...
... fearful Elspeth - in the vengeful wife of M'Gregor - are traits of wild and irregular greatness , fragments of might and grandeur , which show how noble and sacred a thing the heart of man is , in spite of its strangest debasements and ...
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... fearful change from this hearty enjoyment of life to the chillness of mortality , more deeply impressed on the imagination than in all the minute exami- nations of the scene of his murder , the traces of the deadly contest , the last ...
... fearful change from this hearty enjoyment of life to the chillness of mortality , more deeply impressed on the imagination than in all the minute exami- nations of the scene of his murder , the traces of the deadly contest , the last ...
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... fearfully linking the living to the dead , now turning her wheel in apathy and unconsciousness , now drinking with ... fearful view given to the bodily senses of their prisoner of his remaining moments by the segment of the circle yet ...
... fearfully linking the living to the dead , now turning her wheel in apathy and unconsciousness , now drinking with ... fearful view given to the bodily senses of their prisoner of his remaining moments by the segment of the circle yet ...
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... fearful , and gives to all the formalities of a trial more than a judicial majesty . It is seldom , indeed , that the terrors of our author offend or shock us , because they are accompanied by that reconciling power which softens ...
... fearful , and gives to all the formalities of a trial more than a judicial majesty . It is seldom , indeed , that the terrors of our author offend or shock us , because they are accompanied by that reconciling power which softens ...
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Page 121 - Hence, in a season of calm weather, Though inland far we be, Our souls have sight of that immortal sea, Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.
Page 118 - What then I was. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion: the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye.
Page 122 - The Clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take a sober colouring from an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality ; Another race hath been, and other palms are won. Thanks to the human heart by which we live, Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears ; To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
Page 121 - I love the Brooks which down their channels fret, Even more than when I tripped lightly as they; The innocent brightness of a new-born Day Is lovely yet; The Clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take a sober colouring from an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality; Another race hath been, and other palms are won.
Page 120 - Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise; But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings; Blank misgivings of a Creature Moving about in worlds not realized, High instincts before which our mortal Nature Did tremble like a guilty Thing surprised...
Page 118 - For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth ; but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity, Not harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with the joy Of elevated thoughts ; a sense sublime Of something far more deeply interfused, Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, And the round ocean and the living air, And the blue sky, and in the mind of man...
Page 182 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountain, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and watery depths; all these have vanished; They live no longer in the faith of reason.
Page 79 - Still roll ; where all the aspects of misery Predominate; whose strong effects are such As he must bear, being powerless to redress; And that unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man...
Page 104 - The appearance, instantaneously disclosed, Was of a mighty city, boldly say A wilderness of building, sinking far And self-withdrawn into a boundless depth, Far sinking into splendour — without end! Fabric it seemed of diamond and of gold, With alabaster domes, and silver spires, And blazing terrace upon terrace, high Uplifted; here, serene pavilions bright...
Page 121 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing...