Beauties and Achievements of the BlindPublished for the authors, 1854 - 387 Seiten Describes some of the great accomplishments of individuals who were blind. |
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... nature's own beauty and majesty , can interest the intelligent reader , the poems of " Blind Ossian " will be read with undiminished interest , and we cannot close this article without offering a few extracts , that may not only serve ...
... nature's own beauty and majesty , can interest the intelligent reader , the poems of " Blind Ossian " will be read with undiminished interest , and we cannot close this article without offering a few extracts , that may not only serve ...
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... nature's landscape from your view ; The genius that no gloom invades , She gave in recompense to you . " CAROLAN was born in 1670 , in the village of Nob- ber , in the county of Westmeath . He is among the last of the Irish bards of any ...
... nature's landscape from your view ; The genius that no gloom invades , She gave in recompense to you . " CAROLAN was born in 1670 , in the village of Nob- ber , in the county of Westmeath . He is among the last of the Irish bards of any ...
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... nature's purest tints can vie ; With the sweet blue - bell's azure gem , That droops upon the modest stem ! The poets of Ierni's plains To thee devote their choicest strains ; And oft their harps for thee are strung , And oft thy ...
... nature's purest tints can vie ; With the sweet blue - bell's azure gem , That droops upon the modest stem ! The poets of Ierni's plains To thee devote their choicest strains ; And oft their harps for thee are strung , And oft thy ...
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... Nature's face , The verdant vale , the mountains , woods and streams ; Or , with delight ineffable , survey The sun , bright image of his parent God ; The seasons , in majestic order , round This varied globe revolving ; young - eyed ...
... Nature's face , The verdant vale , the mountains , woods and streams ; Or , with delight ineffable , survey The sun , bright image of his parent God ; The seasons , in majestic order , round This varied globe revolving ; young - eyed ...
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William Artman, Lansing V. Hall. Autumn , replete with Nature's various boon , To bless the toiling hind ; and Winter , grand With rapid storms , convulsing Nature's frame : Whilst others view heaven's all - involving arch , Bright with ...
William Artman, Lansing V. Hall. Autumn , replete with Nature's various boon , To bless the toiling hind ; and Winter , grand With rapid storms , convulsing Nature's frame : Whilst others view heaven's all - involving arch , Bright with ...
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Allegany county ancholy authoress bard beams beautiful bees Belfast blessed blind person Bohemia born breath bright brow cheer clouds color dark death deep divine dreams early earth fame fancy father favor feel Fingal flowers FRANCES BROWN friends genius gloom glory hand happy harp hath hear heart heaven hive Homer honor hope human voice Iliad inspired JAMES HOLMAN king of day Knaresborough knowledge labors land light lived lonely loss of sight lost his sight lyre memory Metcalf mind misfortune MISS FRANCES morning mountain native nature nature's neath never night o'er objects Ossian perfect poems poet praise present reader says scenes Scoton shade shadow shine sigh sightless sing smile song soon soul sound spirit stars sublime sweet thee thou thought tion true voice waves wild winds writings young youth Zisca
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 44 - Purification in the old law did save, And such, as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in Heaven without restraint, Came vested all in white, pure as her mind. Her face was...
Seite 48 - The secrets of the hoary deep, a dark Illimitable ocean without bound, Without dimension; where length, breadth, and highth, And time and place are lost; where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy, amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand.
Seite 37 - Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me...
Seite 40 - When the world is dark with tempests; when thunder rolls and lightning flies; thou lookest in thy beauty, from the clouds, and laughest at the storm. But to Ossian thou lookest in vain; for he beholds thy beams no more; whether thy yellow hair flows on the eastern clouds, or thou tremblest at the gates of the west. But thou art, perhaps, like me, for a season, thy years will have an end. Thou shall sleep in thy clouds, careless of the voice of the morning.
Seite 38 - And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate ; there plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.
Seite 50 - On my bended knee I recognise Thy purpose, clearly shown : My vision Thou hast dimmed that I may see Thyself — Thyself alone. " I have nought to fear ; This darkness is the shadow of Thy wing; Beneath it I am almost sacred, here Can come no evil thing.
Seite 48 - Chaos umpire sits, And by decision more embroils the fray, By which he reigns : next him, high arbiter, Chance governs all. Into this wild abyss, The womb of Nature and perhaps her grave...
Seite 40 - O thou that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers ! Whence are thy beams, O sun ! thy everlasting light ! Thou comest forth in thy awful beauty ; the stars hide themselves in the sky ; the moon, cold and pale, sinks in the western wave ; but thou thyself movest aloive. Who can be a companion of thy course...