Western CharactersRedfield, 1853 - 378페이지 |
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... river like the channel of a man's career , does not always bear proportion to the magnitude or volume of the current , which flows through it . Mountains , forests , deserts , physical barriers to the former - and the obstacles of ...
... river like the channel of a man's career , does not always bear proportion to the magnitude or volume of the current , which flows through it . Mountains , forests , deserts , physical barriers to the former - and the obstacles of ...
8 페이지
... rivers , the least of which is larger than the vaunted streams of mighty empires . It might furnish natural boundaries to all Europe , and yet leave , for every country , a river greater than the Seine . It discharges , in one year ...
... rivers , the least of which is larger than the vaunted streams of mighty empires . It might furnish natural boundaries to all Europe , and yet leave , for every country , a river greater than the Seine . It discharges , in one year ...
9 페이지
... river , it rolls a volume , in whose depths the cathedral of St. Paul's might be sunk out of sight ; and five hundred leagues from its mouth , it is wider than at thirty . It annually bears away more acres than it would require to make ...
... river , it rolls a volume , in whose depths the cathedral of St. Paul's might be sunk out of sight ; and five hundred leagues from its mouth , it is wider than at thirty . It annually bears away more acres than it would require to make ...
10 페이지
... river passes on- ward , like the stream of human life , toward " the land of dreams and shadows ! " To the contemplative mind , there is , perhaps , no part of the creation , in which may not be found the seed of much reflection ; but ...
... river passes on- ward , like the stream of human life , toward " the land of dreams and shadows ! " To the contemplative mind , there is , perhaps , no part of the creation , in which may not be found the seed of much reflection ; but ...
11 페이지
... river ; like the infant , airy , volatile , and beautiful- sparkling as the dimpled face of innocence . a faithful reflex of the lights and shadows of existence ; and revealing , through the limpid wave , INTRODUCTORY . 11.
... river ; like the infant , airy , volatile , and beautiful- sparkling as the dimpled face of innocence . a faithful reflex of the lights and shadows of existence ; and revealing , through the limpid wave , INTRODUCTORY . 11.
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77 페이지 - And she may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's.
75 페이지 - There is not, and there never was on this earth, a work of human policy so well deserving of examination as the Roman Catholic Church.
287 페이지 - Yet he was kind, or, if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault...
324 페이지 - Heaven doth with us as we with torches do ; Not light them for themselves : for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 't were all alike As if we had them not.
104 페이지 - THE groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave. And spread the roof above them, — ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, Amidst the cool and silence, he knelt down, And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication.
32 페이지 - Poetry puts a spirit of life and motion into the universe. It describes the flowing, not the fixed. It does not define the limits of sense, or analyze the distinctions of the understanding, but signifies the excess of the imagination beyond the actual or ordinary impression of any object or feeling.
246 페이지 - I beseech you, Wrest once the law to your authority: To do a great right, do a little wrong, And curb this cruel devil of his will.
105 페이지 - I hear the tread of pioneers Of nations yet to be ; The first low wash of waves, where soon Shall roll a human sea.
38 페이지 - I may challenge the whole orations of Demosthenes and Cicero, and of any more eminent orator, if Europe has furnished more eminent, to produce a single passage, superior to the speech of Logan, a Mingo chief, to Lord Dunmore, when governor of this state.
52 페이지 - It is to be doubted, whether some part of this vaunted stoicism be not the result of a more than ordinary degree of physical insensibility.