Fragmentary Remains, Literary and Scientific, of Sir Humphry, Davy, Bart., Late President of the Royal Society, Etc: With a Sketch of His Life and Selections from His CorrespondenceJ. Churchill, 1858 - 330 страници |
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Страница 9 - Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. She is more precious than rubies : and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her. Length of days is in her right hand : and in her left hand riches and honour. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her : and happy is every...
Страница 18 - As nitrous oxide in its extensive operation appears capable of destroying physical pain, it may probably be used with advantage during surgical operations in which no great effusion of blood takes place...
Страница 243 - ... is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart, and secure comfort.
Страница 75 - Coleridge, after disappointing his audience twice from illness, is announced to lecture again this week. He has suffered greatly from excessive sensibility, the disease of genius. His mind is a wilderness, in which the cedar and the oak, which might aspire to the skies, are stunted in their growth by underwood, thorns, briers, and parasitical plants. With the most exalted genius, enlarged views, sensitive heart, and enlightened mind, he will be the victim of want of order, precision, and regularity.
Страница 75 - STOP, Christian Passer-by ! — Stop, child of God, And read with gentle breast. Beneath this sod A poet lies, or that which once seem'd he.— O, lift one thought in prayer for STC ; That he who many a year with toil of breath Found death in life, may here find life in death ! Mercy for praise — to be forgiven for fame He ask'd, and hoped, through Christ. Do thou the same ! 9th November, 1833 REMORSE.
Страница 82 - ... an experiment to see how far those passions which alone give any value to extraordinary incidents were capable of interesting in and for themselves in the incidents of common life. We mean to publish the "Christabel", therefore, with a long blank-verse poem of Wordsworth's, entitled "The Pedlar".1 I assure you I think very differently of "Christabel". I would rather have written "Ruth", and "Nature's Lady",2 than a million such poems.
Страница 86 - Sister have before lived with Calvert on the same footing, and are much attached to him; because my Health is so precarious, and so much injured by Wet, and his health too is, like little potatoes, no great things, and therefore Grasmere...
Страница 75 - STOP, Christian Passer-by — Stop, child of God, And read with gentle breast. Beneath this sod A poet lies, or that which once seem'd he — O lift one thought in prayer for STC ; That he who many a year with toil of breath Found death in life, may here find life in death ! Mercy for praise — to be forgiven for fame He ask'd, and hoped, through Christ. Do thou the same ! AN ODE TO THE RAIN.
Страница 85 - ... the vale, and the mountains are all in darkness ; only the summits of all the mountains in long ridges, covered with snow, are bright to a dazzling excess. A glorious scene ! Hartley was in my arms the other evening, looking at the sky ; he saw the moon glide into a large cloud. Shortly after, at another part of the cloud, several stars sailed in. Says he, " Pretty creatures ! they are going in to see after their mother moon.
Страница 78 - COLERIDGE. Sara desires her kind remembrances — Hartley is a spirit that dances on an aspen leaf— the air that yonder sallow-faced and yawning Tourist is breathing, is to my Babe a perpetual Nitrous Oxide.