Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Том 2Carey and Hart, 1842 |
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... spirit that speaks of immortality ! A prose - poem ! Yes - prose is poetry , whenever pas- sion and imagination give utterance , in union and in unison , to the dreams by which they are haunted and possessed ! Then from the lips of us ...
... spirit that speaks of immortality ! A prose - poem ! Yes - prose is poetry , whenever pas- sion and imagination give utterance , in union and in unison , to the dreams by which they are haunted and possessed ! Then from the lips of us ...
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... spirit showing itself through that fairy veil - momentarily disguised from recognition- but admired the more in the sweet surprise with which again your heart salutes its familiar branches all fancifully ornamented with their snow ...
... spirit showing itself through that fairy veil - momentarily disguised from recognition- but admired the more in the sweet surprise with which again your heart salutes its familiar branches all fancifully ornamented with their snow ...
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... spirit , dawned the light of reason and of religion on the face of the " holy child . " Her lisping language was sprinkled with words alien from common childhood's uncertain speech , that murmurs only when indigent nature prompts ; -and ...
... spirit , dawned the light of reason and of religion on the face of the " holy child . " Her lisping language was sprinkled with words alien from common childhood's uncertain speech , that murmurs only when indigent nature prompts ; -and ...
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... spirit of delight . What knowledge have not some children acquired , and gone down scholars to their small untimely .. graves ! Knowing that such things have been - are - and will be - why art thou incredulous of the divine expansion of ...
... spirit of delight . What knowledge have not some children acquired , and gone down scholars to their small untimely .. graves ! Knowing that such things have been - are - and will be - why art thou incredulous of the divine expansion of ...
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... spirit , over thoughts that had never left a dim- ming breath on its purity , yet that seemed , in those strange visitings , to be haunting her as the shadows of sins — soon were they all dried up in the lustre of her returning smiles ...
... spirit , over thoughts that had never left a dim- ming breath on its purity , yet that seemed , in those strange visitings , to be haunting her as the shadows of sins — soon were they all dried up in the lustre of her returning smiles ...
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admiration Allan Cunninghame Audubon beauty beneath birds Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine bless bosom breath bright Burns Christopher North cold dear death delight divine dream ears earth Eusebius eyes face fair fancy fear feel flowers Gala water genius glorious glory grave Hamish hand happy hear heard heart heaven hills hope hour human imagination immortal immortal song inspired Italy knew land lassie light living look moral mountains naturalists nature nest never night o'er Ornithology passion perhaps philosophic naturalist poem poet poetical poetry rhapsodist Robert Burns round Scotland Scottish seems shepherd shining sing sleep smile snow song soul speak spirit stars strong sublime sugh sweet tears tell tempest thee thing thou thought tion trees truth verse voice whole wild Wilson wings wonder woods words young young Jessie youth
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