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... waters ; the deep roar Of distant thunder mutters awfully ; Tempest unfolds its pinion o'er the gloom That shrouds the boiling surge ; the pitiless fiend , With all his winds and lightnings , tracks his prey ; The torn deep yawns , the ...
... waters ; the deep roar Of distant thunder mutters awfully ; Tempest unfolds its pinion o'er the gloom That shrouds the boiling surge ; the pitiless fiend , With all his winds and lightnings , tracks his prey ; The torn deep yawns , the ...
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... water was resorted to , and man forfeited the inestimable gift of health which he had received from heaven : he became diseased , the partaker of a precarious existence , and no longer descended slowly to his grave . " + But just ...
... water was resorted to , and man forfeited the inestimable gift of health which he had received from heaven : he became diseased , the partaker of a precarious existence , and no longer descended slowly to his grave . " + But just ...
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... water , has failed ultimately to invigorate the body , by rendering its juices bland and consentaneous , and to restore to the mind that cheer- fulness and elasticity which not one in fifty possesses on the present system . A love of ...
... water , has failed ultimately to invigorate the body , by rendering its juices bland and consentaneous , and to restore to the mind that cheer- fulness and elasticity which not one in fifty possesses on the present system . A love of ...
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... water , are then in perfect health . More than two years have now elapsed ; not one of them has died ; no such example will be found in any sixty persons taken at random . Seventeen persons of all ages ( the families of Dr. Lambe and Mr ...
... water , are then in perfect health . More than two years have now elapsed ; not one of them has died ; no such example will be found in any sixty persons taken at random . Seventeen persons of all ages ( the families of Dr. Lambe and Mr ...
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... waters fled The straining boat . - A whirlwind swept it on , With fierce gusts and precipitating force , Through the white ridges of the chafed sea . The waves arose . Higher and higher still Their fierce necks writhed beneath the ...
... waters fled The straining boat . - A whirlwind swept it on , With fierce gusts and precipitating force , Through the white ridges of the chafed sea . The waves arose . Higher and higher still Their fierce necks writhed beneath the ...
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Page 260 - HAIL to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou never wert, That from heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest Like a cloud of fire; The blue deep thou wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest.
Page 249 - Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is; What if my leaves are falling like its own! The tumult of thy mighty harmonies Will take from both a deep, autumnal tone, Sweet though in sadness. Be thou, Spirit fierce, My spirit! Be thou me, impetuous one! Drive my dead thoughts over the universe Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth!
Page 259 - That orbed maiden with white fire laden, Whom mortals call the moon, Glides glimmering o'er my fleece-like floor, By the midnight breezes strewn ; And wherever the beat of her unseen feet, Which only the angels hear, May have broken the woof of my tent's thin roof, The stars peep behind her and peer...
Page 260 - What thou art we know not : What is most like thee ? From rainbow clouds there flow not Drops so bright to see As from thy presence showers a rain of melody.
Page 260 - We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Page 203 - I MET a traveller from an antique land Who said : Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed ; And on the pedestal these words appear : '• My name is Ozymandias, king of kings : Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair...
Page 259 - I sift the snow on the mountains below, And their great pines groan aghast ; And all the night 'tis my pillow white, While I sleep in the arms of the blast.
Page 299 - ONE word is too often profaned For me to profane it, One feeling too falsely disdained For thee to disdain it; One hope is too like despair For prudence to smother, And pity from thee more dear Than that from another. I can give not what men call love, But wilt thou accept not The worship the heart lifts above And the Heavens reject not, — The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow?
Page 177 - Where fairer Tempes bloom, there sleep Young Cyclads on a sunnier deep. A loftier Argo cleaves the main, Fraught with a later prize; Another Orpheus sings again, And loves, and weeps, and dies; A new Ulysses leaves once more Calypso for his native shore.
Page 289 - So it is in the world of living men: A godlike mind soars forth, in its delight Making earth bare, and veiling heaven, and when It sinks, the swarms that dimmed or shared its light Leave to its kindred lamps the spirit's awful night.