The Idle man [by R.H. Dana].1821 |
Im Buch
Ergebnisse 1-5 von 22
Seite 20
... play of that passion which is the most inward and romantic in our nature , and which keeps much of its character amidst the concerns of life , have held him in a kind of spiritualized existence . He shares his very being with one who ...
... play of that passion which is the most inward and romantic in our nature , and which keeps much of its character amidst the concerns of life , have held him in a kind of spiritualized existence . He shares his very being with one who ...
Seite 21
... play before us . We hear them in her varying voice . We see them in the beautiful and harmonious undulations of her movements - in the quick- shifting hues of her face - in her eye , glad and bright - then fond and suffused . Her whole ...
... play before us . We hear them in her varying voice . We see them in the beautiful and harmonious undulations of her movements - in the quick- shifting hues of her face - in her eye , glad and bright - then fond and suffused . Her whole ...
Seite 25
... play . Their eagerness , curious about every thing , making out by a quick imagination what they see but a part of their fanciful combina- tions and magic inventions , creating out of ordi- nary circumstances , and the common things ...
... play . Their eagerness , curious about every thing , making out by a quick imagination what they see but a part of their fanciful combina- tions and magic inventions , creating out of ordi- nary circumstances , and the common things ...
Seite 27
... play , there is something still left in him for virtue to act upon - something which can still love simplicity and truth . I have seen one in whom some low vice had become a habit , make himself the plaything of a set of riotous ...
... play , there is something still left in him for virtue to act upon - something which can still love simplicity and truth . I have seen one in whom some low vice had become a habit , make himself the plaything of a set of riotous ...
Seite 32
... play of the leaves of the wood , and their passing hues , when each one seems a living thing full of delight , and vain of its gaudy attire ? A sound , too , of universal harmony is in our ears , and a wide spread beauty before our eyes ...
... play of the leaves of the wood , and their passing hues , when each one seems a living thing full of delight , and vain of its gaudy attire ? A sound , too , of universal harmony is in our ears , and a wide spread beauty before our eyes ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Abraham affections amongst answer appear authors and proprietors beautiful benevolence better blessed character cheerful choly colour copies of maps countenance death deep delight door earth Edward entered eyes face fancies father feelings felt gentle give gone gout grave grief Hamlet hand happy Harriet head heart hope hostler hour hurried imagination intel Kean Kean's kind Lear leave lence light living look lovely stream man's manner Mary Aston melan melancholy mind Miss Aston mother moved nature ness never New-York night Othello panion passed passion play pleasure racter riet scarcely securing the copies seemed sensible Shakspeare Shirley sitting soon soul sound spirit spoke talk tell thing thought tions trees truth turn uttered various his employments virtue voice walking WILEY & HALSTED words world Calls idle write
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 63 - Come when the rains Have glazed the snow, and clothed the trees with ice, While the slant sun of February pours Into the bowers a flood of light. Approach ! The incrusted surface shall upbear thy steps, And the broad arching portals of the grove Welcome thy entering. Look ! the massy trunks Are cased in• the pure crystal ; each light spray, Nodding and tinkling in the breath of heaven...
Seite 2 - Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit : " Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape. An Historical Tale." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States...
Seite 2 - Co. of the said district have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following-, viz. " POEMS, by George Bancroft." In conformity to the act of the congress of the United States...
Seite 62 - Yet fair as thou art, thou shunnest to glide, Beautiful stream ! by the village side ; But windest away from haunts of men, To quiet valley and shaded glen ; And forest, and meadow, and slope of hill, Around thee, are lonely, lovely, and still.
Seite 39 - ... look at what he saw, as if all before him was undergoing a strange and bewildering change which confused his brain — the wandering, lost motions of his hands, which seemed feeling for something familiar to them, on which they might take hold, and be assured of a safe reality— the under monotone of his voice, as if he was questioning his own being, and...
Seite 49 - Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless, So dull, so dead in look, so woe-begone, Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night...
Seite 40 - Edgar as an insane brother, is another instance of the justness of Kean's conceptions. Nor does he lose the air of insanity, even in the fine moralizing parts, and where he inveighs against the corruptions of the world: There is a madness even in his reason.
Seite 62 - From dawn to the blush of another day, Like traveller singing along his way. That fairy music I never hear, Nor gaze on those waters so green and clear, And mark them winding away from sight, Darkened with shade or flashing with light, While o'er them the vine to its thicket clings, And the zephyr stoops to freshen his wings...
Seite 62 - From thicket to thicket the angler glides; Or the simpler comes, with basket and book For herbs of power on thy banks to look; Or haply, some idle dreamer, like me, To wander, and muse, and gaze on thee, Still...
Seite 64 - Scarce stir the branches. Lodged in sunny cleft, Where the cold breezes come not blooms alone The little wind-flower, whose just opened eye Is blue as the spring heaven it gazes at — Startling the loiterer in the naked groves With unexpected beauty, for the time Of blossoms and green leaves is yet afar.