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... than those awakened by the poet , connect us with present events , and they are such as preclude the indulgence of the fancy in scenes of modern war . VOL . VI . N. S. B Poetry is the expression of passionate sentiment . At the THE.
... than those awakened by the poet , connect us with present events , and they are such as preclude the indulgence of the fancy in scenes of modern war . VOL . VI . N. S. B Poetry is the expression of passionate sentiment . At the THE.
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Poetry is the expression of passionate sentiment . At the earlier periods of civilization , when the imagination is the ac- tuating principle of the multitude , and the objects of passion are those which relate wholly to the imagination ...
Poetry is the expression of passionate sentiment . At the earlier periods of civilization , when the imagination is the ac- tuating principle of the multitude , and the objects of passion are those which relate wholly to the imagination ...
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... expression ; his thoughts are always natural . The poems of the one are altogether so different from those of the other , that it is not conceivable that Wordsworth could have written Madoc or Roderick , or Southey , the Excursion ...
... expression ; his thoughts are always natural . The poems of the one are altogether so different from those of the other , that it is not conceivable that Wordsworth could have written Madoc or Roderick , or Southey , the Excursion ...
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... expression of a father's complacent affection ; and in these the me- mory of that Son shall outlive the record of the monumental stone . Hearts little to the melting mood inclined Grew sick to 10 The Poet's Pilgrimage to Waterloo .
... expression of a father's complacent affection ; and in these the me- mory of that Son shall outlive the record of the monumental stone . Hearts little to the melting mood inclined Grew sick to 10 The Poet's Pilgrimage to Waterloo .
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... expression ; and our readers will instantly perceive from the following stanzas , that they are not the phantom opinions of an allegorical personage merely which he is combating . The old man , with hard eye unabashed and look serene ...
... expression ; and our readers will instantly perceive from the following stanzas , that they are not the phantom opinions of an allegorical personage merely which he is combating . The old man , with hard eye unabashed and look serene ...
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Page 412 - Will you be ready with all faithful diligence to banish and drive away all erroneous and strange doctrines contrary to God's word...
Page 172 - IT is certain by God's word, that children which are baptized, dying before they commit actual sin, are undoubtedly saved.
Page 533 - And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
Page 588 - Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
Page 410 - City, and holding a pure faith in the unity of the Spirit and in the bond of peace...
Page 381 - Nor aught else in the liquid mirror laves Its portraiture, but some inconstant star Between one foliaged lattice twinkling fair, Or, painted bird, sleeping beneath the moon, Or gorgeous insect floating motionless, Unconscious of the day, ere yet his wings Have spread their glories to the gaze of noon.
Page 387 - Die, he or justice must; unless for him Some other, able, and as willing, pay The rigid satisfaction ; death for death.
Page 534 - And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.
Page 359 - For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling block, and unto the Greeks foolishness; But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
Page 45 - When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones, Forget not : in thy book record their groans Who were thy sheep, and in their ancient fold Slain by the bloody Piedmontese, that rolled Mother with infant down the rocks. Their moans The vales redoubled to the hills and they To heaven.