Gleanings from the Harvest Fields of Literature: A Melange of Excerpta, Curious, Humorous, and InstructiveT.N. Kurtz, 1860 - 527 oldal |
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26. oldal
... hears its high harmonious strain Deems not thy genius thou didst half profane ? Exhausting thy great power of song on themes Not worthy of its strong , effulgent beams . REYNOLDS . Rare Painter ! whose unequall'd skill could trace E ach ...
... hears its high harmonious strain Deems not thy genius thou didst half profane ? Exhausting thy great power of song on themes Not worthy of its strong , effulgent beams . REYNOLDS . Rare Painter ! whose unequall'd skill could trace E ach ...
30. oldal
... hears her harmony , — Earth's envy ends ; enthralled each ear , each eye ; Numbers need ninefold nerve , or nearly name , Soul - stirring STEPHENS ' skill , sure seraphs sing the same . CHRONOGRAMMATIC PASQUINADE . On the election of ...
... hears her harmony , — Earth's envy ends ; enthralled each ear , each eye ; Numbers need ninefold nerve , or nearly name , Soul - stirring STEPHENS ' skill , sure seraphs sing the same . CHRONOGRAMMATIC PASQUINADE . On the election of ...
48. oldal
... hear them , oh my heart ? ' Tis twelve at night by the castle clock , Beloved , we must part ! " Come back ! come back ! " she cried in grief , " My eyes are dim with tears- How shall I live through all the days , All through a hundred ...
... hear them , oh my heart ? ' Tis twelve at night by the castle clock , Beloved , we must part ! " Come back ! come back ! " she cried in grief , " My eyes are dim with tears- How shall I live through all the days , All through a hundred ...
66. oldal
... hear me wretch , oh , Did never close , Let not , O God ! And numberless , bet W And my poor soul be t h vers of my tears bow down thy blessed ears let thine eyes . which sleep behold a sinner weep . my God ! my faults , though great ...
... hear me wretch , oh , Did never close , Let not , O God ! And numberless , bet W And my poor soul be t h vers of my tears bow down thy blessed ears let thine eyes . which sleep behold a sinner weep . my God ! my faults , though great ...
79. oldal
... hear , to read , to fear , to pray , To lift the latch , and force the way ; But better had they ne'er been born , Who read to doubt , or read to scorn . - ENGLISH BIBLE TRANSLATIONS . OUR version of the Bible is THE BIBLE . 79.
... hear , to read , to fear , to pray , To lift the latch , and force the way ; But better had they ne'er been born , Who read to doubt , or read to scorn . - ENGLISH BIBLE TRANSLATIONS . OUR version of the Bible is THE BIBLE . 79.
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488. oldal - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
507. oldal - Thus this brook has conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn into the narrow seas, they into the main ocean; and thus the ashes of Wickliffe are the emblem of his doctrine, which now is dispersed all the world over."* — Church History.
436. oldal - Honor and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honor lies.
375. oldal - HERE WAS BURIED THOMAS JEFFERSON AUTHOR OF THE DECLARATION OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, OF THE STATUTE OF VIRGINIA FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, AND FATHER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: because by these, as testimonials that I have lived, I wish most to be remembered.
219. oldal - Resolved, That the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white ; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation.
487. oldal - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned.
365. oldal - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
336. oldal - More skilful in self-knowledge, even more pure, As tempted more ; more able to endure, As more exposed to suffering and distress ; Thence, also, more alive to tenderness...
73. oldal - We live in deeds, not years ; in thoughts, not breaths ; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most — feels the noblest — acts the best...
337. oldal - But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for human kind, Is happy as a Lover; and attired With sudden brightness, like a Man inspired...