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Page 367 - My heart is awed within me, when I think Of the great miracle that still goes on, In silence, round me — the perpetual work Of thy creation, finished, yet renewed For ever.
Page 367 - Wave not less proudly that their ancestors Moulder beneath them. Oh, there is not lost One of Earth's charms ! upon her bosom yet, After the flight of untold centuries, The freshness of her far beginning lies, And yet shall lie.
Page 367 - Written on thy works I read The lesson of thy own eternity. Lo ! all grow old and die ; but see again, How on the faltering footsteps of decay Youth presses, — ever gay and beautiful youth In all its beautiful forms.
Page 366 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore. There is society where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not man the less, but nature more...
Page 52 - ... when in association with those we love, and heart answering to heart, we live in sympathy, while memory and hope repose alike in smiles upon the bosom of enjoyment. It is a flame from heaven purer than Promethean fire, that vivifies and energizes the breathing form. It is an immaterial essence, a being, that quickens matter and imparts life, sensation, motion, to the intricate framework of our bodies; which wills when we act, attends when we perceive, looks into the past when we reflect, and...
Page 49 - What a piece of work is a man ! how noble in reason ! how infinite in faculty ! in form and moving how express and admirable 1 in action how like an angel ! in apprehension how like a god ! the beauty of the world ! the paragon of animals ! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?
Page 201 - ... beast. The comfort and efficiency of intellect, nay, the moral perception, manliness, and virtue of the mind depend greatly on our use of aliment ; and in the very means by which we sustain the strength of the body, or most directly disorder its functions, we at the same time...
Page 67 - Blest power of sunshine ! genial day, What balm, what life is in thy ray ! To feel thee is such real bliss, That had the world no joy but this, To sit in sunshine calm and sweet, — It were a world too exquisite For man to leave it for the gloom, The deep, cold shadow of the tomb...
Page 52 - It is a flame from heaven purer than Promethean fire, that vivifies and energizes the breathing form. It is an immaterial essence, a being, that quickens matter and imparts life, sensation, motion, to the intricate framework of our bodies ; which wills when we act, attends when we perceive, looks into the past when we reflect, and not content with the present, shoots with all its aims and all its hopes into the futurity that is forever dawning upon it.
Page 203 - The peristaltic persuaders" of the gourmand are as essential to his happiness as is his dinner; but not only do these gross livers need such helps, the exquisite poet must also resort to the apothecary to antidote the cook. Byron says, " The thing that gives me the highest spirits is a dose of salts." It diminished that congestion and irritability of his brain which his habits tended to keep up. He was at one period of his life epileptic, but he subdued the malady by extreme abstinence, frequently...