The Idle man [by R.H. Dana].1821 |
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... whole rests on my own shoulders . For , in these matters , the assistance of our friends is at best but precarious ; and there is still less to hope for from the help of strangers . I shall , however , be grateful for assistance from ...
... whole rests on my own shoulders . For , in these matters , the assistance of our friends is at best but precarious ; and there is still less to hope for from the help of strangers . I shall , however , be grateful for assistance from ...
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... whole charac- ter . God , in his goodness , has ordained that virtue should make its own enjoyment , and that wherever a vice or frailty is rooted out , some- thing should spring up to be a beauty and delight to the mind . But a man of ...
... whole charac- ter . God , in his goodness , has ordained that virtue should make its own enjoyment , and that wherever a vice or frailty is rooted out , some- thing should spring up to be a beauty and delight to the mind . But a man of ...
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... whole frame is alive and active with what is and the outward form all speaks . at her heart , And can a man listen to this - can his eye rest upon all this , day after day , and he not be touched and made better ? She seems of a finer ...
... whole frame is alive and active with what is and the outward form all speaks . at her heart , And can a man listen to this - can his eye rest upon all this , day after day , and he not be touched and made better ? She seems of a finer ...
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... whole acts , with its countless parts fitted to each other , and moving in harmony . There are none of us who have stolen softly behind a child when labouring in a sunny corner , digging a lilliputian well , or fencing in a six - inch ...
... whole acts , with its countless parts fitted to each other , and moving in harmony . There are none of us who have stolen softly behind a child when labouring in a sunny corner , digging a lilliputian well , or fencing in a six - inch ...
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... whole it were better otherwise , help to this impression upon us , and so make up in a good degree for the defect . Though he is on the very verge of truth in his passionate parts , he never passes into extra- vagance . He runs along ...
... whole it were better otherwise , help to this impression upon us , and so make up in a good degree for the defect . Though he is on the very verge of truth in his passionate parts , he never passes into extra- vagance . He runs along ...
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.