Shelburne Essays: 3rd seriesPutnam, 1905 - 265 strani |
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Stran 21
... imagination is so captivated upon these occasions that I seem to partake with the navigators in all the dan- gers they encountered . I lose my anchor ; my mainsail is rent into shreds ; I kill a shark , and by signs converse with a ...
... imagination is so captivated upon these occasions that I seem to partake with the navigators in all the dan- gers they encountered . I lose my anchor ; my mainsail is rent into shreds ; I kill a shark , and by signs converse with a ...
Stran 36
... imagination over " our common world of joy and woe . " Perhaps something in his American surround- ings fitted him peculiarly for this humbler rôle . The fact that the men who had made the new colony belonged to the middle class of ...
... imagination over " our common world of joy and woe . " Perhaps something in his American surround- ings fitted him peculiarly for this humbler rôle . The fact that the men who had made the new colony belonged to the middle class of ...
Stran 40
... imagination dwells with untroubled delight . Even the little things , the flowers and birds of the country , are made to con- tribute to the sense of homely content . There is one poem in particular which has always seemed to me ...
... imagination dwells with untroubled delight . Even the little things , the flowers and birds of the country , are made to con- tribute to the sense of homely content . There is one poem in particular which has always seemed to me ...
Stran 49
... imagination to the peace that dwelt " within the land of Penn " : Who knows what goadings in their sterner way O'er jagged ice , relieved by granite grey , Blew round the men of Massachusetts Bay ? What hate of heresy the east - wind ...
... imagination to the peace that dwelt " within the land of Penn " : Who knows what goadings in their sterner way O'er jagged ice , relieved by granite grey , Blew round the men of Massachusetts Bay ? What hate of heresy the east - wind ...
Stran 58
... imagination in this religion of universal love . At least he per- ceived in the new brotherhood a relief from the strained individualism of the romantic poets , and the same instinct , no doubt , followed him from Saint - Simonism into ...
... imagination in this religion of universal love . At least he per- ceived in the new brotherhood a relief from the strained individualism of the romantic poets , and the same instinct , no doubt , followed him from Saint - Simonism into ...
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Stran 159 - Spite of this flesh to-day I strove, made head, gained ground upon the whole!" As the bird wings and sings, Let us cry, "All good things Are ours, nor soul helps flesh more, now, than flesh helps soul!
Stran 41 - And so beside the Silent Sea I wait the muffled oar ; No harm from Him can come to me On ocean or on shore. I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air ; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care.
Stran 45 - They are all gone into the world of light! And I alone sit lingering here ; Their very memory is fair and bright, And my sad thoughts doth clear; It glows and glitters in my cloudy breast, Like stars upon some gloomy grove, Or those faint beams in which this hill is drest After the sun's remove.
Stran 1 - Thy nightly visits to my chamber made That thou mightst know me safe and warmly laid , Thy morning bounties ere I left my home. The biscuit, or confectionary plum...
Stran 19 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Stran 136 - Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day's journey take the whole long day? From morn to night, my friend.
Stran 1 - Tis now become a history little known, That once we called the pastoral house our own. Short-lived possession ! But the record fair, That memory keeps of all thy kindness there, Still outlives many a storm, that has effaced A thousand other themes less deeply traced.
Stran 1 - I see, The same that oft in childhood solaced me; Voice only fails, else, how distinct they say, 'Grieve not, my child, chase all thy fears away!
Stran 23 - Twas my distress that brought thee low, My Mary ! Thy needles, once a shining store, For my sake restless heretofore, Now rust disused, and shine no more ; My Mary ! For though thou gladly wouldst fulfil The same kind office for me still, Thy sight now seconds not thy will...
Stran 46 - After the sun's remove. I see them walking in an air of glory, Whose light doth trample on my days; My days, which are at best but dull and hoary, Mere glimmering and decays.