The Pleasures of LifeMacmillan, 1899 |
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Analects of Confucius Apicius Bacon beautiful better blessing blue bright CHAPTER charm Cicero clouds color dark death delight doubt earth Emerson enjoy Epictetus eternal Euripides evil feel flowers friends ghosts give glorious glory Goethe greatest Greek happiness heart heaven hope human idea infinite interest Jeremy Taylor John Herschel King labour landscape laugh light live look Madame de Staël Marcus Aurelius Milton mind moreover mountains nature never night noble ourselves pain painting peace perhaps picture Plato pleasure Plutarch poet Poetry proverb realise reason religion rest rich Ruskin says scarcely scenery seems Shakespeare Socrates song sorrow soul speak spirit stars suffer sweet tells thee things Thomas à Kempis thou thought tion trees troubles true truth wise wonder woods words Wordsworth Zeuxis and Parrhasius
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1. oldal - We look before and after, And pine for what is not: Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
179. oldal - The other shape, If shape it might be call'd, that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb, Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either ; black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart ; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
108. oldal - While all melts under our feet, we may well catch at any exquisite passion, or any contribution to knowledge that seems by a lifted horizon to set the spirit free for a moment, or any stirring of the senses, strange dyes, strange colours, and curious odours, or work of the artist's hands, or the face of one's friend.
175. oldal - In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face ; the hair of my flesh stood up.
176. oldal - ... 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.
117. oldal - Dis's waggon ! daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty ; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath ; pale primroses, That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright Phoebus in his strength...
54. oldal - Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old: My never-failing friends are they, With whom I converse day by day. With them I take delight in weal And seek relief in woe; And while I understand and feel How much to them I owe, My cheeks have often been bedew'd With tears of thoughtful gratitude.
xii. oldal - Some murmur, when their sky is clear And wholly bright to view, If one small speck of dark appear In their great heaven of blue. And some with thankful love are filled, If but one streak of light, One ray of God's good mercy gild The darkness of their night.
141. oldal - A dewy freshness fills the silent air; No mist obscures, nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain, Breaks the serene of heaven: In full-orbed glory yonder moon divine Rolls through the dark blue depths.
109. oldal - Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.