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Date: 1850
"[H]ow eagerly / And with what flashes, as it were, the mind / Turned this way--that way! sportive and alert / And watchful, as a kitten when at play."
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Date: 1850
"The matter that detains us now may seem, / To many, neither dignified enough / Nor arduous, yet will not be scorned by them, / Who, looking inward, have observed the ties / That bind the perishable hours of life / Each to the other, and the curious props / By which the world of memory and though...
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Date: 1850
"For though I was most passionately moved / And yielded to all changes of the scene / With an obsequious promptness, yet the storm / Passed not beyond the suburbs of the mind"
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Date: 1850
"Caught by the spectacle my mind turned round / As with the might of waters."
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Date: 1850
"In fits of kindliest apprehensiveness, / From all sides, when whate'er was in itself / Capacious found, or seemed to find, in me / A correspondent amplitude of mind; / Such is the strength and glory of our youth."
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Date: 1850
"But these are things / Of which I speak, only as they were storm / Or sunshine to my individual mind, / No further."
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Date: 1850
"So I fared, / Dragging all precepts, judgments, maxims, creeds, / Like culprits to the bar; calling the mind, / Suspiciously, to establish in plain day / Her titles and her honours"
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Date: 1850
"In trivial occupations, and the round / Of ordinary intercourse, our minds / Are nourished and invisibly repaired."
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Date: 1850
"The mind is lord and master--outward sense / The obedient servant of her will"
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Date: 1850
"And, as the horizon of my mind enlarged, / Again I took the intellectual eye / For my instructor, studious more to see / Great truths, than touch and handle little ones."
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