Lessons in Life: A Series of Familiar EssaysCharles Scribner, 1861 - 344 oldal |
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12. oldal
... brook , that turns a mill . There is no water except when it rains , and the weather being very fickle , it is never known when there will be water . Sometimes , how- ever , there comes a freshet , and then the 12 Leffons in Life .
... brook , that turns a mill . There is no water except when it rains , and the weather being very fickle , it is never known when there will be water . Sometimes , how- ever , there comes a freshet , and then the 12 Leffons in Life .
13. oldal
... never have ac- complished much , and they never will accomplish much . Regular eating , regular sleeping , regular working- these are the secrets of all true literary success . A man may throw off a single little poem by a spasm , but ...
... never have ac- complished much , and they never will accomplish much . Regular eating , regular sleeping , regular working- these are the secrets of all true literary success . A man may throw off a single little poem by a spasm , but ...
15. oldal
... never failed . She sang just as well in the old church where the country people had flocked to greet her , as in the halls of the metropolis . Yet Jenny Lind was decidedly a woman of moods , and indulged in them when she could af ford ...
... never failed . She sang just as well in the old church where the country people had flocked to greet her , as in the halls of the metropolis . Yet Jenny Lind was decidedly a woman of moods , and indulged in them when she could af ford ...
21. oldal
... never present their moody side to me . My neighbor enters their presence and finds them severe in aspect , hard in feeling , and abrupt in speech . I go in immediately after , and open the door right through that mood , into the genial ...
... never present their moody side to me . My neighbor enters their presence and finds them severe in aspect , hard in feeling , and abrupt in speech . I go in immediately after , and open the door right through that mood , into the genial ...
34. oldal
... never do this ; and I think of them with a sadness which it is impossi- ble for me to express . For a homely - even an ugly man - I have no pity to spare . I never saw one so ugly yet , that if he had brains and a heart , he could not ...
... never do this ; and I think of them with a sadness which it is impossi- ble for me to express . For a homely - even an ugly man - I have no pity to spare . I never saw one so ugly yet , that if he had brains and a heart , he could not ...
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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.