The Life and Times of Hugh MillerRudd & Carleton, 1859 - 346 psl. |
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... father's early life . His mother had con- signed him to the care of an aunt married to a neigh- bouring farmer , that in the acquisition of agricultural tastes , he might be saved from the hereditary fate of the family , who , in its ...
... father's early life . His mother had con- signed him to the care of an aunt married to a neigh- bouring farmer , that in the acquisition of agricultural tastes , he might be saved from the hereditary fate of the family , who , in its ...
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... father had been for some months sailing round the Hebrides , collecting kelp ; and towards the end of October , 1807 , deeply laden , he had threaded his way round Cape Wrath , and through the Pentland , and across the Moray Frith ...
... father had been for some months sailing round the Hebrides , collecting kelp ; and towards the end of October , 1807 , deeply laden , he had threaded his way round Cape Wrath , and through the Pentland , and across the Moray Frith ...
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... father's death seems at least curi- ous . " We shall best respect the memory of the dead , and best consult the tastes of the living , by leaving the story of this singular apparition as its author has left it , unexplained . Right or ...
... father's death seems at least curi- ous . " We shall best respect the memory of the dead , and best consult the tastes of the living , by leaving the story of this singular apparition as its author has left it , unexplained . Right or ...
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... father from him never to return . Hugh Miller mourning his sire reminds us of the first great sorrows of Cowper , of Kitto , and of De Quincey , all of whom were early taught in the deaths of dearest friends how soon 66 shades of the ...
... father from him never to return . Hugh Miller mourning his sire reminds us of the first great sorrows of Cowper , of Kitto , and of De Quincey , all of whom were early taught in the deaths of dearest friends how soon 66 shades of the ...
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... father's death have about them little of the true minstrel fire . That sorrow was too deep to find adequate utterance in any verse which " a journeyman stone - mason " could write ; and probably it had been better he had never attempted ...
... father's death have about them little of the true minstrel fire . That sorrow was too deep to find adequate utterance in any verse which " a journeyman stone - mason " could write ; and probably it had been better he had never attempted ...
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341 psl. - He is gone who seem'd so great. Gone; but nothing can bereave him Of the force he made his own Being here, and we believe him Something far advanced in State, And that he wears a truer crown Than any wreath that man can weave him. Speak no more of his renown, Lay your earthly fancies down, And in the vast cathedral leave him. God accept him, Christ receive him.
260 psl. - The poor inhabitant below Was quick to learn and wise to know, And keenly felt the friendly glow, And softer flame ; But thoughtless follies laid him low, And stain'd his name ! Reader, attend ! whether thy soul Soars fancy's flights beyond the pole, Or darkling grubs this earthly hole, In low pursuit ; Know, prudent, cautious, self-control Is wisdom's root.
41 psl. - ... the best laid schemes o' mice and men gang aft agley.
304 psl. - There is no straw given unto thy servants, and they say to us, Make brick: and, behold, thy servants are beaten; but the fault is in thine own people. But he said, Ye are idle, ye are idle: therefore ye say, Let us go and do sacrifice to the LORD.
315 psl. - And yet, fair bow, no fabling dreams But words of the Most High, Have told why first thy robe of beams Was woven in the sky.
302 psl. - ... were a fortification against sweetness of temper, natural affection, and gentle intercourse. There was the resentful Sunday of a little later, when he sat glowering and glooming through the tardy length of the day, with a sullen sense of injury in his heart, and no more real knowledge of the beneficent history of the New Testament, than if he had been bred among idolaters. There was a legion of Sundays, all days of unserviceable bitterness and mortification, slowly passing before him. 'Beg pardon,...
332 psl. - No more? A monster then, a dream, A discord. Dragons of the prime, That tare each other in their slime. Were mellow music match'd with him. O life as futile, then, as frail! O for thy voice to soothe and bless ! What hope of answer, or redress ? Behind the veil, behind the veil.
338 psl. - The cause of death we found to be a pistol-shot through the left side of the chest ; and this, we are satisfied, was inflicted by his own hand. ' From the diseased appearances found in the brain, taken in connection with the history of the case, we have no doubt that the act was suicidal under the impulse of insanity.
121 psl. - Then O, my first, my only love, The kindliest, dearest, best ! On Him may all our hopes repose,— On Him our wishes rest. His be the future's doubtful day, Let joy or grief befall : In life or death, in weal or woe, Our God, our guide, our all.
298 psl. - Ah! could you but see Bet Bouncer of these parts, you might then talk of beauty. Ecod, she has two eyes as black as sloes, and cheeks as broad and red as a pulpit cushion.