The Student: A Series of Papers, Volume 2Saunders and Otley, 1835 - 205 pages |
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... Night Thoughts - Young - His gloom spreads only over this world , without darkening the next 130 L CONVERSATION THE SECOND . ' s increase of illness - Remarks on a passage in Bacon - Advantages in the belief of immortality - An idea in ...
... Night Thoughts - Young - His gloom spreads only over this world , without darkening the next 130 L CONVERSATION THE SECOND . ' s increase of illness - Remarks on a passage in Bacon - Advantages in the belief of immortality - An idea in ...
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... Night Thoughts " -Survey of contemporaneous poetry - Re- markable distinction between the blank verse and rhyme of the same period - The former more English - Peculiarities of the old English Muse - Its quaint love of classical allusion ...
... Night Thoughts " -Survey of contemporaneous poetry - Re- markable distinction between the blank verse and rhyme of the same period - The former more English - Peculiarities of the old English Muse - Its quaint love of classical allusion ...
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... night . - In an evil hour , it so happened that Fi - ho - ti discovered that he possessed the talents we have referred to . A philosopher , who , being also his uncle , had the double right , both of philo- sophy and relationship , to ...
... night . - In an evil hour , it so happened that Fi - ho - ti discovered that he possessed the talents we have referred to . A philosopher , who , being also his uncle , had the double right , both of philo- sophy and relationship , to ...
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... night upon his couch.- Very likely : -it was the effect of REPUTATION ! " But if the old friends are no more , I will gain new , " thought the student . " Men of the same pursuits will have the same sympathies . I aspire 22 FI - HO - TI .
... night upon his couch.- Very likely : -it was the effect of REPUTATION ! " But if the old friends are no more , I will gain new , " thought the student . " Men of the same pursuits will have the same sympathies . I aspire 22 FI - HO - TI .
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... night , and wished much for you . You need not rally me on my affection for him ; I do not love him , but I am pleased to command his attentions ; in a word , my vanity is flattered with the notion of chaining to myself one of the most ...
... night , and wished much for you . You need not rally me on my affection for him ; I do not love him , but I am pleased to command his attentions ; in a word , my vanity is flattered with the notion of chaining to myself one of the most ...
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Page 349 - Precipitously steep; and drawing near, There breathes a living fragrance from the shore, Of flowers yet fresh with childhood; on the ear Drops the light drip of the suspended oar, Or chirps the grasshopper one good-night carol more. ' He is an evening reveller, who makes His life an infancy, and sings his fill; At intervals, some bird from out the brakes, Starts into voice a moment, then is still.
Page 151 - Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours ; And ask them, what report they bore to heaven ; And how they might have borne more welcome news.
Page 9 - O now, for ever, Farewell the tranquil mind ! Farewell content ! Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars, That make ambition virtue ! O, farewell ! Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner ; and all quality. Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war...
Page 53 - When all is done, (he concludes,) human life is at the greatest and the best but like a froward child, that must be played with and humoured a little to keep it quiet, till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.
Page 313 - To reason, and on reason build resolve (That column of true majesty in man), Assist me : I will thank you in the grave ; The grave, your kingdom. There this frame shall fall A victim sacred to your dreary shrine. But what are ye? THOU, who didst put to flight Primeval Silence, when the morning...
Page 159 - And therefore it was most aptly said by one of Plato's school, That the sense of man carrieth a resemblance with the sun, which (as we see} openeth and revealeth all the terrestrial globe; but then again it obscureth and concealeth the stars and celestial globe: so doth the sense discover natural things, but it darkeneth and shutteth up divine.
Page 102 - Solon, Zaleucus, Charondas, and thence to all the Roman edicts and tables with their Justinian, and so down to the Saxon and common laws of England, and the statutes.
Page 320 - O majestic Night ! Nature's great ancestor ! Day's elder born ! And fated to survive the transient sun ! By mortals and immortals seen with awe ! A starry crown thy raven brow adorns, An azure zone thy waist; clouds, in heaven's loom Wrought through varieties of shape and shade, In ample folds of drapery divine, Thy flowing mantle form, and, heaven throughout, Voluminously pour thy pompous train...
Page 102 - Roman wont; first on foot, then as their age permits, on horseback, to all the art of cavalry ; that having in sport, but with much exactness and daily muster, served out the rudiments of their soldiership, in all the skill of embattling, marching, encamping, fortifying, besieging, and battering, with all the helps of ancient and modern stratagems, tactics, and warlike maxims, they may as it were out of a long war come forth renowned and perfect commanders in the service of their country.
Page 302 - This world a hunting is, The prey poor man, the Nimrod fierce is Death ; His speedy greyhounds are Lust, sickness, envy, care, Strife that ne'er falls amiss, With all those ills which haunt us while we breathe. Now, if by chance we fly Of these the eager chase, Old age with stealing pace Casts up his nets, and there we panting die.