The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature: A Biographical and Bibliographical Summary of the World's Most Eminent Authors, Including the Choicest Selections and Masterpieces from Their Writings ...Fifth avenue library society, 1899 |
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40. oldal
... poems . His Poems of Many Moods were published at Boston in 1846 , a few months before his lamented death at Cincinnati , where he had but recently been installed as clergyman of the First Unitarian Church . GULF - WEED . A weary weed ...
... poems . His Poems of Many Moods were published at Boston in 1846 , a few months before his lamented death at Cincinnati , where he had but recently been installed as clergyman of the First Unitarian Church . GULF - WEED . A weary weed ...
44. oldal
... Poem ( 1872 ) ; Poems ( 1880 ) ; Shakespearian Brevi- ties ( 1882 ) ; Leabhar Breac ( 1876 ) ; The Forging of the Anchor ( 1883 ) ; Ogham Inscription ( 1887 ) . The Cromlech on Howth ( 1864 ) is enriched with valuable notes on Celtic ...
... Poem ( 1872 ) ; Poems ( 1880 ) ; Shakespearian Brevi- ties ( 1882 ) ; Leabhar Breac ( 1876 ) ; The Forging of the Anchor ( 1883 ) ; Ogham Inscription ( 1887 ) . The Cromlech on Howth ( 1864 ) is enriched with valuable notes on Celtic ...
49. oldal
... poems . In 1773 a collection of his poems was published . He had already manifested symp- toms of mental disease ; these were aggravated by a fall by which his head was injured , and he was placed in a public asylum , where he died . A ...
... poems . In 1773 a collection of his poems was published . He had already manifested symp- toms of mental disease ; these were aggravated by a fall by which his head was injured , and he was placed in a public asylum , where he died . A ...
77. oldal
... poems and charming chil- dren's verses which have endeared him to the hearts of American and European readers ; chief among them being his Little Boy Blue ; Intry- Mintry ; Gander feather's Gift ; and Wynken , Blyn- ken , and Nod . His ...
... poems and charming chil- dren's verses which have endeared him to the hearts of American and European readers ; chief among them being his Little Boy Blue ; Intry- Mintry ; Gander feather's Gift ; and Wynken , Blyn- ken , and Nod . His ...
79. oldal
... poems , which were widely copied , are all marked , as a writer in White's National Biography expresses it , " by daintiness and pathetic beauty , some of his child - poems being among the best in the lan- guage . " " His prose , " says ...
... poems , which were widely copied , are all marked , as a writer in White's National Biography expresses it , " by daintiness and pathetic beauty , some of his child - poems being among the best in the lan- guage . " " His prose , " says ...
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344. oldal - I have lived, sir, a long time, and the longer I live the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid ? We have been assured, 'sir, in the sacred writings, that, 'except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it.
161. oldal - Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great argument About it and about : but evermore Came out by the same door where in I went...
348. oldal - So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business ; but to these we must add frugality, if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a groat at last. A fat kitchen makes a lean will...
341. oldal - Then I turned and went down Chestnut Street and part of Walnut Street, eating my roll all the way and, coming round, found myself again at Market Street wharf, near the boat I came in, to which I went for a draught of the river water; and, being filled with one of my rolls, gave the other two to a woman and her child that came down the river in a boat with us, and were waiting to go farther.
80. oldal - And don't you make any noise!" So, toddling off to his trundle-bed, He dreamt of the pretty toys; And, as he was dreaming, an angel song Awakened our Little Boy Blue — Oh! the years are many, the years are long, But the little toy friends are true!
349. oldal - And again, Pride is as loud a beggar as Want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece; but Poor Dick says, It is easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it.
161. oldal - Ah Love! could you and I with Him conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire, Would not we shatter it to bits — and then Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire!
353. oldal - What's he? What? Touch-paper to be sure. What are our poets, take them as they fall, Good, bad, rich, poor, much read, not read at all? Them and their works in the same class you'll find; They are the mere waste-paper of mankind.
351. oldal - ... said I, you are providing pain for yourself, instead of pleasure; you give too much for your whistle.
341. oldal - I came in, to which I went for a draught of the river water; and, being filled with one of my rolls, gave the other two to a woman and her child that came down the river in the boat with us, and were waiting to go farther. Thus refreshed, I walked again up the street, which by this time had many clean-dressed people in it, who were all walking the same way.