Colloquies: Imaginary Conversations Between a Phrenologist and the Shade of Dugald StewartParbury & Company, 1838 - 336 pages |
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... scene in nature , far surpasses that with which it would look upon one that is sublime . It is possible that these dissimilar features may exist in a space of limited extent , though they are seldom to be met with so concentred : when ...
... scene in nature , far surpasses that with which it would look upon one that is sublime . It is possible that these dissimilar features may exist in a space of limited extent , though they are seldom to be met with so concentred : when ...
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... scene is presented to the eye on this side , which , in strong contrast with the other , forms a peculiar , romantic , and splendid variety . To those who seek for and delight only in rural beauty , and attach grandeur to nothing that ...
... scene is presented to the eye on this side , which , in strong contrast with the other , forms a peculiar , romantic , and splendid variety . To those who seek for and delight only in rural beauty , and attach grandeur to nothing that ...
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... scene of my meditations , which would vary in intenseness and animation in proportion to the susceptibility of the mind at the time , and accord- ing to the season of the year . Sometimes the mind is little disposed to receive ...
... scene of my meditations , which would vary in intenseness and animation in proportion to the susceptibility of the mind at the time , and accord- ing to the season of the year . Sometimes the mind is little disposed to receive ...
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... scenes , that they might be taught more perfectly to fear , while they were allowed to praise and adore . I sought , in imagination , for the tutelary deities of the Athenians and Corinthians , willing , for a moment at least , to ...
... scenes , that they might be taught more perfectly to fear , while they were allowed to praise and adore . I sought , in imagination , for the tutelary deities of the Athenians and Corinthians , willing , for a moment at least , to ...
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... scene which now lay before me ? To think of it as the creation of one Being , is to acknowledge it as one of the ... scenes had been presented , which were capable of inspiring and elevating it to such an extent . What , I asked myself ...
... scene which now lay before me ? To think of it as the creation of one Being , is to acknowledge it as one of the ... scenes had been presented , which were capable of inspiring and elevating it to such an extent . What , I asked myself ...
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Page 125 - Mammon led them on, Mammon, the least erected Spirit that fell From Heaven; for even in Heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward bent, admiring more The riches of Heaven's pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy else enjoyed In vision beatific.
Page 145 - By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song ; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
Page 16 - But he, full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God; " and he said, "Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing at the right hand of God.
Page 25 - O, if this were seen, The happiest youth, viewing his progress through, What perils past, what crosses to ensue, Would shut the book and sit him down and die.
Page 245 - DIM as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering travellers, Is Reason to the soul : and as on high, Those rolling fires discover but the sky, Not light us here ; so Reason's glimmering ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day. And as those nightly tapers disappear, When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere ; So pale grows Reason at Religion's sight ; So dies, and so dissolves in supernatural light.
Page 88 - The Anatomy and Physiology of the Nervous System in general, and of the Brain in particular...
Page 312 - The reader finds a scene drawn in stronger colours, and painted more to the life in his imagination, by the help of words, than by an actual survey of the scene which they describe. In this case, the poet seems to get the better of nature : he...
Page 323 - There is in every human heart Some not completely barren part, Where seeds of truth and love might grow, And flowers of generous virtue blow : To plant, to watch, to water there — This be our duty, be our care...
Page 149 - The forms with which He sprinkles all the earth. Happy who walks with him ! whom what he finds Of flavour or of scent in fruit or flower, Or what he views of beautiful or grand In nature, from the broad, majestic oak To the green blade that twinkles in the sun, Prompts with remembrance of a present God.
Page 245 - Dim as the borrowed beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering travellers, Is reason to the soul; and, as on high Those rolling fires discover but the sky, Not light us here, so reason's glimmering ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day. And as those nightly tapers disappear, When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere; So pale grows reason at religion's sight; So dies, and so dissolves in supernatural light.