The gallery of engravings, ed. by G. N. Wright (C. H. Timperley). Ser. 2, ed. by mrs. Milner, Utgåva 108, Volym 1

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Sida 114 - How much deeper power seemed to lie coiled up, as it were, in the recesses of her mind, than was ever manifested to the world in her writings ! Strange and sad does it seem that only the broken music of such a spirit should have been given to the earth — the full and finished harmony never drawn forth.
Sida 63 - ... we had left, till the horizon was terminated by a vast range of ice and snow, extending its battalion of white shining spears from east to west, as far as the eye could follow it , the principal points rising like towers in the glittering rampart, but all connected by a chain of humbler glaciers.
Sida 113 - In the best of everything I have done, you will find one leading idea — death; all thoughts, all contrasts of thoughts and images are derived from living much in the valley of that shadow; from having learned life rather in the vicissitudes of man than of woman, from the mind being Hebraic.
Sida 65 - FROM Greenland's icy mountains, From India's coral strand, Where Afric's sunny fountains Roll down their golden sand ; From many an ancient river, From many a balmy plain, They call us to deliver Their land from error's chain.
Sida 16 - Hitherto shalt thou come, and no further, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed," these irregular and prodigious vagaries seem to bespeak a decay, and forebode, perhaps, not a very distant dissolution.
Sida 113 - I have done nothing to live, and what I have yet done must pass away with a thousand other blossoms, the growth, the beauty, and oblivion of a day. The powers which I feel, and of which I have given promise, may mature — may stamp themselves in act ; but the spirit of despondency is strong upon the future exile, and I fear they never will — ' I feel the long grass growing o'er my heart.
Sida 69 - It is a saying worthy of the ferocious pride of Attila that the grass never grew on the spot where his horse had trod.
Sida 35 - Christian one half of the loaf. He that could feed five thousand with five loaves and two fishes, can certainly make that half of the loaf suffice for more than our necessities.
Sida 102 - ... his countrymen, who looked up .to him as their supporter, while they were charmed with his personal appearance, and easy address, chastened by a dignified gravity of manners. He now began to write in support of the cause for which he had left his country; and his first piece, published in 1565, was entitled " A defence of the doctrine of Catholics, concerning Purgatory and Prayers for the Dead,

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