The republic of letters, [ed.] by A. Whitelaw, Volume 3Alexander Whitelaw 1833 |
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... Heavens ! how he did talk of the sufferings and privations of the patriots of the Revolution ! he certainly owed them a good turn , for he got enough by them to build a palace , and purchase half the Genesee country . At the period of ...
... Heavens ! how he did talk of the sufferings and privations of the patriots of the Revolution ! he certainly owed them a good turn , for he got enough by them to build a palace , and purchase half the Genesee country . At the period of ...
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... visions of the future - for that was all to me and lighted my path through long perspectives of shadowy happiness . Sometimes I was a soldier , winning my way to the highest heaven of military glory - sometimes a poet , A 2 DYSPEPSY . 3.
... visions of the future - for that was all to me and lighted my path through long perspectives of shadowy happiness . Sometimes I was a soldier , winning my way to the highest heaven of military glory - sometimes a poet , A 2 DYSPEPSY . 3.
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Alexander Whitelaw. highest heaven of military glory - sometimes a poet , the admiration of the fair ; and sometimes I possessed what then seemed to me , the sure means of perfect happiness - ten thousand a year . For days , and weeks ...
Alexander Whitelaw. highest heaven of military glory - sometimes a poet , the admiration of the fair ; and sometimes I possessed what then seemed to me , the sure means of perfect happiness - ten thousand a year . For days , and weeks ...
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... heavens . Then come the lengthening days , which at first steal on imper- ceptibly , with steps noiseless and slow , silently unlocking the chains of winter , and setting nature free so easily , that we do not hear the turning of the ...
... heavens . Then come the lengthening days , which at first steal on imper- ceptibly , with steps noiseless and slow , silently unlocking the chains of winter , and setting nature free so easily , that we do not hear the turning of the ...
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... heavens ! is it possi- ble , " and though glad to see me , he seemed quite astonished ; " my name is Abstract ! " I almost fell backwards over one of the benches ; it was my friend , the man of nerves , as hale and hearty , as if he ...
... heavens ! is it possi- ble , " and though glad to see me , he seemed quite astonished ; " my name is Abstract ! " I almost fell backwards over one of the benches ; it was my friend , the man of nerves , as hale and hearty , as if he ...
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Page 335 - The breath whose might I have invoked in song Descends on me; my spirit's bark is driven, Far from the shore, far from the trembling throng Whose sails were never to the tempest given; The massy earth and sphered skies are riven! I am borne darkly, fearfully, afar; Whilst burning through the inmost veil of Heaven, The soul of Adonais, like a star, Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are.
Page 335 - That light whose smile kindles the universe, That beauty in which all things work and move, That benediction which the eclipsing curse Of birth can quench not, that sustaining Love Which, through the web of being blindly wove By man and beast and earth and air and sea, Burns bright or dim, as each are mirrors of The fire for which all thirst, now beams on me, Consuming the last clouds of cold mortality.
Page 332 - Peace, peace ! he is not dead, he doth not sleep, He hath awakened from the dream of life ; Tis we who, lost in stormy visions, keep With phantoms an unprofitable strife, And in mad trance strike with our spirit's knife Invulnerable nothings.
Page 334 - Here pause: these graves are all too young as yet To have outgrown the sorrow which consigned Its charge to each ; and if the seal is set, Here, on one fountain of a mourning mind, Break it not thou! too surely shalt thou find Thine own well full, if thou returnest home, Of tears and gall. From the world's bitter wind Seek shelter in the shadow of the tomb. What Adonais is, why fear we to become?
Page 331 - Live thou, whose infamy is not thy fame! Live! fear no heavier chastisement from me, Thou noteless blot on a remembered name! But be thyself, and know thyself to be!
Page 328 - The airs and streams renew their joyous tone; The ants, the bees, the swallows reappear; Fresh leaves and flowers deck the dead Seasons...
Page 333 - His part, while the one Spirit's plastic stress Sweeps through the dull dense world, compelling there, All new successions to the forms they wear; Torturing th' unwilling dross that checks its flight To its own likeness, as each mass may bear; And bursting in its beauty and its might From trees and beasts and men into the Heaven's light.
Page 334 - Thy footsteps to a slope of green access Where, like an infant's smile, over the dead A light of laughing flowers along the grass is spread. And gray walls moulder round, on which dull Time Feeds, like slow fire upon a hoary brand; And one keen pyramid with wedge sublime, Pavilioning the dust of him who planned This refuge for his memory, doth stand Like flame transformed to marble; and beneath, A field is spread, on which a newer band Have pitched in Heaven's smile their camp of death Welcoming...
Page 140 - The Lord giveth, and the Lord ' taketh away ; blessed be the name of the Lord.
Page 388 - The Soul, of origin divine, GOD'S glorious image, freed from clay, In heaven's eternal sphere shall shine A star of day. " The SUN is but a spark of fire, A transient meteor in the sky ; The SOUL, immortal as its Sire, SHALL NEVER DIE.