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... heart , and soothes its care ; But if in silence we would nurse the wound , It festers soon , and spreads contagion round . The pen , that wondrous instrument of thought , By which mankind for ages have been taught— Whose power has ...
... heart , and soothes its care ; But if in silence we would nurse the wound , It festers soon , and spreads contagion round . The pen , that wondrous instrument of thought , By which mankind for ages have been taught— Whose power has ...
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... heart : No rural objects here delight the eye- Verdure around , or fields of blue on high : No sweet embowering walks around are seen , Draped in the summer's livery of green : No whispering wood , or liquid note of bird , No hum of bee ...
... heart : No rural objects here delight the eye- Verdure around , or fields of blue on high : No sweet embowering walks around are seen , Draped in the summer's livery of green : No whispering wood , or liquid note of bird , No hum of bee ...
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... heart of human nature beats- There her soft tale the heavenly nymph repeats . See ! where the weeping mother's forced to leave Her infant charge - each day to toil and grieve : She lingering turns to press its cheek once more , And ...
... heart of human nature beats- There her soft tale the heavenly nymph repeats . See ! where the weeping mother's forced to leave Her infant charge - each day to toil and grieve : She lingering turns to press its cheek once more , And ...
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... heart with pictur'd joys , Scenes which around the retrospect will cling , And o'er its tints a shade of sadness fling , Making this modern wilderness to bear- A thousand fruits the mind delights to share . How memory loves again to ...
... heart with pictur'd joys , Scenes which around the retrospect will cling , And o'er its tints a shade of sadness fling , Making this modern wilderness to bear- A thousand fruits the mind delights to share . How memory loves again to ...
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... heart and skill : By that I see my rude forefathers ' hand , Whose cunning modern art could ne'er command ; Its beauty lives - despite the tooth of time , A monument of ancient art sublime : It seems to link us with the Saxon age- But ...
... heart and skill : By that I see my rude forefathers ' hand , Whose cunning modern art could ne'er command ; Its beauty lives - despite the tooth of time , A monument of ancient art sublime : It seems to link us with the Saxon age- But ...
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Page 272 - Soon shall thy arm, unconquer'd Steam, afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car ; Or, on wide-waving wings expanded bear The flying chariot through the fields of air...
Page 40 - Therefore am I still A lover of the meadows and the woods, And mountains; and of all that we behold From this green earth; of all the mighty world Of eye and ear, both what they half create, And what perceive; well pleased to recognise In nature and the language of the sense, The anchor of my purest thoughts, the nurse, The guide, the guardian of my heart, and soul Of all my moral being.
Page 265 - America,* it has become a thing stupendous alike for its force and its flexibility, — for the prodigious power which it can exert, and the ease and precision and ductility with which it can be varied, .distributed, and applied. The trunk of an elephant that can pick up a pin or rend an oak is as nothing to it. It can engrave a seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal before it, — draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift up a ship of war like a bauble in the air.
Page 266 - And certainly no man ever bestowed such a gift on his kind. The blessing is not only universal, but unbounded ; and the fabled inventors of the plough and the loom, who were Deified by the erring gratitude of their rude contemporaries, conferred less important benefits on mankind than the inventor of our present steam-engine.
Page 219 - The vapors which gather round the rising sun, and follow it in its course, seldom fail, at the close of it, to form a magnificent theatre for its reception, and to invest with variegated tints, and with a softened effulgence, the luminary which they cannot hide Though I disapprove of his [Dr.
Page 274 - NYMPHS! you erewhile on simmering caldrons play'd, And call'd delighted Savery to your aid ; Bade round the youth explosive Steam aspire, In gathering clouds, and wing'd the wave with fire; Bade with cold streams the quick expansion stop, And sunk the immense of vapour to a drop. Press'd by the ponderous air the piston falls Resistless, sliding through its iron walls; Quick moves the balanced beam, of giant birth, Wields his large limbs, and nodding shakes the earth.
Page 265 - It would .be difficult to estimate the value of the benefits which these inventions have conferred upon the country. There is no branch of industry that has not been indebted to them ; and in all the most material, they have not only widened most magnificently the field of its exertions, but multiplied a thousandfold the amount of its productions.
Page 219 - ... or those who have opposed him, will be alike forgotten. Distinguished merit will ever rise superior to oppression, and will draw lustre from reproach. The vapours which gather round the rising sun, and follow it in its course, seldom fail at the close of it to form a magnificent theatre for its reception, and to invest with variegated tints, and with a softened effulgence, the luminary which they cannot hide...
Page 218 - I told her that she had never approached me without diffusing a ray of pleasure over the mind, except when any little disagreement had happened between us. She replied, " I can say more " than that. You never appeared in my sight, " even in anger, without that sight giving me
Page 259 - THE poet in a golden clime was born, With golden stars above ; Dower'd with the hate of hate, the scorn of scorn, The love of love.