Lessons in Life: A Series of Familiar EssaysCharles Scribner, 1861 - 344 oldal |
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10. oldal
... of trying the experiment . The kind heart that presided over the school - room could not resist my petition ; so I was soon lying in the coveted shadow . I went to work very severely ; but the next moment found my eyes 10 Leffons in Life .
... of trying the experiment . The kind heart that presided over the school - room could not resist my petition ; so I was soon lying in the coveted shadow . I went to work very severely ; but the next moment found my eyes 10 Leffons in Life .
11. oldal
... eyes wandering ; and heart , feeling , and fancy were going up and down the earth in the most vagrant fashion . It was hopeless dissipation to sit under the tree ; and discovering a huge rock on the hillside , I made my way to that , to ...
... eyes wandering ; and heart , feeling , and fancy were going up and down the earth in the most vagrant fashion . It was hopeless dissipation to sit under the tree ; and discovering a huge rock on the hillside , I made my way to that , to ...
15. oldal
... eyes and ears , and had been absorbed by every pore of their sensitive skins . In a condition like this , I have seen them bent over the parental knee , and their persons subjected to blows from the parental palm ; and they have emerged ...
... eyes and ears , and had been absorbed by every pore of their sensitive skins . In a condition like this , I have seen them bent over the parental knee , and their persons subjected to blows from the parental palm ; and they have emerged ...
22. oldal
... the still morning air , straight toward heaven , will not rise at all , but settles like smoke upon him , and fills his eyes with tears . Something seems to have come between him and his God . voices are heard 22 Leffons in Life .
... the still morning air , straight toward heaven , will not rise at all , but settles like smoke upon him , and fills his eyes with tears . Something seems to have come between him and his God . voices are heard 22 Leffons in Life .
26. oldal
... eyes fill with tears . It is a little boy , possibly twelve years old , though he looks younger , walking with a crutch . One withered limb dangles as he goes . He is a cripple for life ; yet his face is as bright and cheerful as the ...
... eyes fill with tears . It is a little boy , possibly twelve years old , though he looks younger , walking with a crutch . One withered limb dangles as he goes . He is a cripple for life ; yet his face is as bright and cheerful as the ...
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18. oldal - Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossomed furze unprofitably gay, There, in his noisy mansion, skilled to rule, The village master taught his little school; A man severe he was, and stern to view; I knew him well, and every truant knew; Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace The day's disasters in his morning face; Full well they laughed, with counterfeited glee, At all his jokes, for many a joke had he...
192. oldal - The Holy Supper is kept, indeed, In whatso we share with another's need; Not what we give, but what we share, ! For the gift without the giver is bare; Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me.
25. oldal - Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up...
96. oldal - Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare; Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss, Though winning near the goal - yet, do not grieve; She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!
9. oldal - Of aspect more sublime: that blessed mood In which the burthen of the mystery, In which the heavy and the weary weight Of all this unintelligible world, Is lightened; that serene and blessed mood, In which the affections gently lead us on, Until, the breath of this corporeal frame And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul...
177. oldal - That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please. Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.
250. oldal - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And, with some sweet, oblivious antidote, Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
236. oldal - For mankind are one in spirit, and an instinct bears along, Round the earth's electric circle, the swift flash of right or wrong ; Whether conscious or unconscious, yet Humanity's vast frame Through its ocean.sundered fibres feels the gush of joy or shame ; — In the gain or loss of one race all the rest have equal claim.
211. oldal - It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.
79. oldal - It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.