Essays, Letters from AbroadMoxon, 1845 - 164 pages |
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... happiest moments of the best and happiest minds . ” * But this is not enough — we desire to know the man . We desire to learn how much of the sensibility and imagination that animates his poetry was founded on heartfelt passion , and ...
... happiest moments of the best and happiest minds . ” * But this is not enough — we desire to know the man . We desire to learn how much of the sensibility and imagination that animates his poetry was founded on heartfelt passion , and ...
Page ix
... happiness is to spring . The few pages here given are all that he left on this subject . The fragment marked as second in these " Speculations on Morals " is remarkable for its subtlety and truth . I found it on a single leaf ...
... happiness is to spring . The few pages here given are all that he left on this subject . The fragment marked as second in these " Speculations on Morals " is remarkable for its subtlety and truth . I found it on a single leaf ...
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... happier contentment of mid - life , had descended on his dear head , to calm the turbulence of youthful impetuosity - that he had lived to see his country advance towards freedom , and to enrich the world with his own virtues and genius ...
... happier contentment of mid - life , had descended on his dear head , to calm the turbulence of youthful impetuosity - that he had lived to see his country advance towards freedom , and to enrich the world with his own virtues and genius ...
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... happiness ; the pang occasioned by his loss can never pass away — and I gain resignation only by believing that he was spared much suffering , and that he has passed into a sphere of being , better adapted to his inexpressible ...
... happiness ; the pang occasioned by his loss can never pass away — and I gain resignation only by believing that he was spared much suffering , and that he has passed into a sphere of being , better adapted to his inexpressible ...
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... happiness and perfection of delight , which have the power of attracting and man . I appeal to what has already been esta- assimilating to their own nature all other thoughts , blished to distinguish between the cause and the and which ...
... happiness and perfection of delight , which have the power of attracting and man . I appeal to what has already been esta- assimilating to their own nature all other thoughts , blished to distinguish between the cause and the and which ...
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