Oh! why should the spirit of mortal be proud? Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast-flying cloud,... A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, Man passeth from life to his rest in the grave.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Spirit of Place [does not] exert its full influence upon a newcomer until the old inhabitant is dead or absorbed. So America....... The moment the last nuclei of Red [Indian] life break up in America, then the white men will have to reckon with the full force of the demon of the continent.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen... once, abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents, its habits, its breath, its name.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
it was not enough to be for abolition/while the spirit of the masters flickered in the abolitionist's heart... ... With whom do you believe your lot is cast?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When the artless doctor sees No one hope, but of his fees,... And his skill runs on the lees; Sweet Spirit, comfort me! When his potion and his pill, Has, or none, or little skill, Meet for nothing, but to kill; Sweet Spirit, comfort me!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And my spirit is grown to a lordly great compass within, That the length and the breadth and the sweep of the marshes of ...>Glynn Will work me no fear like the fear they have wrought me of yore When length was failure, and when breadth was but bitterness sore, And when terror and shrinking and dreary unnamable pain Drew over me out of the merciless miles of the plain,-- Oh, now, unafraid, I am fain to face The vast sweet visage of space.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sweet pliability of man's spirit, that can at once surrender itself to illusions, which cheat expectation and sorrow of their wear...y moments!--long--long since had ye number'd out my days, had I not trod so great a part of them upon this enchanted ground.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »