Date: 1820
"And we breathe, and sicken not, / The atmosphere of human thought: / Be it dim, and dank, and gray, / Like a storm-extinguished day, / Travelled o'er by dying gleams; / Be it bright as all between / Cloudless skies and windless streams, / Silent, liquid, and serene; / As the birds within the win...
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Date: 1821
Invention must "yield it to the rule of reason"
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Date: 1821
"'Ah, move,' he said, 'and you shall feel / That Paddy has a heart of steel"
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Date: 1821
"The peaceful conscience is the boon / That keeps the jarring mind in tune"
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Date: 1821
"The peaceful conscience" is "the heart's so cheering guest, / Which had--a rush for all the rest."
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Date: 1821
"Swift as a Thought by the snake Memory stung, / From her ambrosial rest the fading Splendour sprung."
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Date: 1821
"And his own thoughts, along that rugged way, / Pursued, like raging hounds, their father and their prey"
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Date: 1821
One may have "A pardlike Spirit beautiful and swift."
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Date: 1821
"Dust to the dust! but the pure spirit shall flow / Back to the burning fountain whence it came."
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Date: 1821
"Like corpses in a charnel; fear and grief / Convulse us and consume us day by day, / And cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay."
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